Thread by @DrewHolden360

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The Hunter Biden story broke two months ago. Most of the media ignored it or called it “Russian disinformation,” despite no evidence that it was.

Now that the election is over, the story, it seems, is fit to print.

Who’s up for a little before and after?

You’ll remember that one of the key players in all this was Tony Bobulinski, a former business associate of Hunters.

Well, you might not if you’ve only read @CNN. As of last night, they’d never mentioned him. But their homepage featured Hunter and China.

Funny, that.

And surely you’ll remember that @CNN had former DNI James Clapper on the program to say that the Post’s reporting - that blew the lid off of the Biden family corruption in the first place - was “classic textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft” back in October.

The richest may be @NPR. Back in October they didn’t say a peep about Hunter because - I kid you not - they “don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories.”

Apparently, now it’s a story.

@politico put out a piece back in October about how 50 “former senior intel officers” said it might be Russian disinfo, despite the entire American intel apparatus saying that was bunk.

Today they used the same picture of Hunter to report about...Hunter’s corruption.

Bonus on @politico. Reminder that, back in October, they quoted **a Biden advisor** to make the case that allegations against Hunter were Russian disinformation.

Not exactly Profiles In Courage stuff here.

One of the most egregious displays was @CBSNews, who got upset with one of their reporters for daring to ask about Hunter Biden in October (h/t @CarmineSabia) but, all of a sudden, see it as a valuable story a couple of months later.

I want to pause here to make something abundantly clear: the reason the Hunter story didn’t earn the attention it should have is because the media actively spread a conspiracy theory that it was Russian disinformation in the days leading up to the election. That’s it.

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled programming. Here’s @NewsHour doing an about-face on Hunter’s impropriety with no recognition of how we got here.

You had to assume that @nytimes would find their way on here.

I almost appreciate the hustle from @MSNBC, who have continued to go to bat for Hunter through all of this, even if their tone has, well, changed a touch.

And it doesn’t look like their top talent - @JoyAnnReid and @maddow - have thought it important to revisit their earlier claims which weren’t exactly spot on.

Perhaps now would be a good time to update the fact check, @washingtonpost?

This, from @businessinsider, is a doozy.

It’s interesting to see @USATODAY say that this news puts Hunter’s finances back in the spotlight when back in October the only “spotlight” they gave them was to call them Russian disinformation (wrongly).

Now, the media isn’t omniscient. We shouldn’t have expected they would know about the FBI investigation. That isn’t the problem.

The problem is the absolute absence of interest in this story. The media didn’t just ignore it. They actively undermined it.

I’ve got a whole separate thread on the Russian disinfo stuff, linked here. The allegations - which have since been shot through - were even more thinly sourced than the Hunter story. Yet TONS of outlets ran with them. Twitter and Facebook blackballed the piece.

https://twitter.com/drewholden360/status/1318281142265675779

But now, with the election in the rearview mirror, they’re interested in Hunter’s impropriety.

Where was this before? Where was this interest when Biden said during the debates that Hunter did everything aboveboard? The fact checkers were mysteriously absent from that one.

https://twitter.com/drewholden360/status/1321941443540324355

And of course the richest part of all this is that many of these outlets and individuals are the same people who pushed the idea that perhaps Donald Trump had been a Russian agent since the 1980s.

https://twitter.com/drewholden360/status/1262106206405042186

So I don’t want to hear it. This was bad faith all the way down, and it was done deliberately to not upset what these folks thought would be a surefire Biden win in the election.

It stinks to high heavens and we should all be outraged.

I’ll be honest guys I’m on vacation this week and then I saw the Hunter news and was like, well, can’t let this one pass by unremarked.

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