Reporters admit Politico snuffed out Hunter Biden laptop story to protect Joe in 2020

Lest anyone still have doubts, two ex-Politico reporters just confirmed how far the media went to protect Joe Biden prior to the 2020 presidential election.

It’s solid proof these outlets are can’t be trusted.

On a podcast this week, Axios’ Mark Caputo and Puck’s Tara Palmeri revealed that Politico intentionally killed or resisted negative stories about Biden and his son — citing, for instance, its limited coverage of The Post’s election-eve scoop on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

“Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation,” recalled Caputo.

“Turns out that story was closer to disinformation, because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true.”

Caputo told his editor the outlet needed to “write about the Hunter Biden laptop” but was instructed, per orders from “on high” at Politico, not to: “Don’t write about the laptop. Don’t talk about the laptop. Don’t tweet about the laptop,” he was told.

So “the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation.”

Caputo also cited his reporting in 2019 on a tax lien Hunter got for his Burisma income.

“That story was killed by the editors. And they gave no explanation.”

Poltico was hardly alone.

And don’t buy the media’s excuse that they needed to pin down all the facts before publishing or that they were wary, after Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

The Post managed to confirm the facts — and they all proved true.

Most outlets now admit that, but they waited until well after Joe Biden was safely in office before doing so.

The 51 Spies Who Lied — ex-intel officials who signed an open letter that trashed The Post’s laptop scoop as a “Russian information operation” — gave the media cover.

But that letter was spurred by the Biden campaign (notably, Antony Blinken) and was clearly meant to influence the election.

Which is why ex-CIA boss John Brennan’s griping about President Trump’s stripping his and the other spies’ security clearance is so pathetic.

Brennan whines that their statement merely notes that the laptop story “was one of the hallmarks of Russian information operations.”

Please.

If these intel veterans weren’t sure about Russia’s involvement, and weren’t trying to mislead the public, they could’ve checked with their sources at the FBI, which had already verified the laptop’s authenticity.

Or just kept their mouths shut.

Brennan & Co. knew exactly what they were doing.

So Trump was dead right to cancel their security clearances.

They clearly can’t be trusted.

Fact is, neither the media nor these spies have been honest with Americans.

Trump’s victory, despite their bid to defeat him, suggests Americans know it.