CBS' Lesley Stahl of "60 Minutes" said in October, 2020 that Hunter Biden's "laptop... can't be verified." That was false. It could be and was. And, according to the journalist who verified it, @peterschweizer, CBS and Stahl could have done so before she interviewed Trump.
Me: It took you two and a half weeks — you and your staff — of how many people?
Peter Schweitzer: We had six people working on that.
Michael: Okay, so if someone had more people on it, they might have been able to get it done in what — a week? Is that being that generous enough?
Schweitzer: You could have very easily within a week run a story that a laptop has emerged that has purported to be Hunter Biden's. We've not completely verified its authenticity. But it does strangely correspond with these government records that were released about a week before the laptop came out.
They do this sort of stuff all the time. They took the anonymous [UK spy Christopher Steele] dossier [suggesting Trump was colluding with Russia] that they didn't know who the author of it was and they were reporting on it as an anonymous dossier. And yet they're saying that this laptop, that you can verify through third parties, "We're not gonna cover"?
Michael: So even if the New York Times or the mainstream media had just gone off the New York Post, if they'd only heard about it the first time from the New York Post, they potentially could have done a story by October 21st?
Peter Schweitzer: Absolutely. There's no question they could have
Peter Schweitzer: We had six people working on that.
Michael: Okay, so if someone had more people on it, they might have been able to get it done in what — a week? Is that being that generous enough?
Schweitzer: You could have very easily within a week run a story that a laptop has emerged that has purported to be Hunter Biden's. We've not completely verified its authenticity. But it does strangely correspond with these government records that were released about a week before the laptop came out.
They do this sort of stuff all the time. They took the anonymous [UK spy Christopher Steele] dossier [suggesting Trump was colluding with Russia] that they didn't know who the author of it was and they were reporting on it as an anonymous dossier. And yet they're saying that this laptop, that you can verify through third parties, "We're not gonna cover"?
Michael: So even if the New York Times or the mainstream media had just gone off the New York Post, if they'd only heard about it the first time from the New York Post, they potentially could have done a story by October 21st?
Peter Schweitzer: Absolutely. There's no question they could have
Here is the false claim by Stahl that the laptop couldn't be verified.
https://x.com/Hagstrom_Anders/status/1319314523162107905
Twitter staff concluded that the NY Post story did not violate Twitter’s rules against hacking, despite a brainwashing (“pre-bunking”) effort by the Aspen Institute.
Then, under pressure from a former FBI official who helped start the Russiagate hoax, Twitter censored the NY Post story. —->
Then, under pressure from a former FBI official who helped start the Russiagate hoax, Twitter censored the NY Post story. —->
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