President Trump called the lack of coverage on Hunter Biden’s alleged computer scandal “criminal” while speaking to reporters.
The president, while in Phoenix on Monday, was asked why his “campaign strategy seems to be to call Biden a criminal.”
“You’re a criminal for not reporting it. Joe Biden is a criminal, and he’s been a criminal for a long time, and you’re a criminal in the media for not reporting it,” he responded.
“He is a criminal. He got caught. Read his laptop.
And you know who’s a criminal? You’re a criminal for not reporting it.”@realDonaldTrump calls the media “criminals” for not reporting on the @NYPost‘s Hunter Biden story alleging corruption while @JoeBiden served as VP. pic.twitter.com/ULBlLiuc5T
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 19, 2020
The New York Post published a piece last Wednesday claiming Hunter Biden allegedly set up a meeting between his father, when he served as vice president, and a senior official at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” Vadym Pozharskyi wrote in an email found on the younger Biden’s alleged computer.
The hard drive also included a sexually explicit video and photos of Hunter Biden posing shirtless and sleeping with what appears to be a crack pipe in his mouth.
A computer shop’s owner turned over the laptop to the FBI and made a copy of the contents. The copy was given to Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer and then to the New York Post.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden told Fox News in 2019.
Biden’s campaign has denied that a meeting between their candidate and Pozharskyi ever took place but did not dispute the validity of the emails.
Analysis done of the media coverage of the emails indicates that ABC, CBC, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC dedicated less than 10 minutes, or 0.2%, of their airtime over a 92 hour period to the story.
Facebook slowed the distribution of the story on its platform after the story broke, and Twitter suspended some users who tried to share a link to the story.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany was locked out of her account for sharing the story, and the New York Post’s Twitter account has been suspended since Oct. 14.
