In response to Twitter’s release of internal company documents late last week, the former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe claimed that “the Michael Phelps of gold medal-winning performances when it comes to election interference” was a major factor in the social media company’s decision to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020.
Ratcliffe made the comments on Sunday night while speaking with Trey Gowdy for Fox News.
Elon Musk released internal company communications about the company’s censorship of the story and how the company removed tweets at the request of the Democratic Party, a decision he said was “necessary to restore public trust” in the platform—And the left-wing media, I’m sure.
“Do you happen to remember, there was a letter signed by some so-called national security and intelligence officials warning that the Hunter Biden laptop might be Russian disinformation?” Gowdy asked. “Do you recall that?”
“Yeah. So, Trey, as you know, not just me, but the Attorney General and the FBI director, we all put out statements back in October of 2020, alerting the American people that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation,” Ratcliffe responded. “And we did that, because we wanted the American people to be aware of the issues as they as they came up to an election, to be fully informed. And unfortunately, what we are seeing through what’s happened with Elon Musk and the Twitter files, is that the truth about this issue was suppressed and lies were amplified and lies in the form of election interference from the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, who said this was Russian disinformation and coordinated with former intelligence officials to amplify that lie through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.”
Ratcliffe acknowledged that the James Baker who worked for the FBI was the same James Baker when questioned about the significance of a Twitter employee named James Baker in all of this.
“So, the same James Baker that, to remind your viewers was general counsel for Jim Comey at the FBI, who helped write an exoneration memo for Hillary Clinton before she was ever interviewed by the FBI for having hundreds of classified emails on her server, that same James Baker then met with the Clinton campaign officials to hand carry evidence, supposed evidence about Russian collusion, the Steele dossier, the Alpha bank connections with the Trump campaign into the FBI and the Department of Justice to launch an investigation that went on for years,” Ratcliffe said. “That’s the same James Baker that ultimately at Twitter said statements from the FBI, the Department of Justice, and the Director of National Intelligence that say this is not Russian disinformation, apparently aren’t clear enough, and we need to suppress this.”
“So yeah, I think these Twitter files are revealing that you know, James Baker is the the Michael Phelps of gold medal winning performances when it comes to election interference,” he added.
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Musk plans to release evidence that he says will prove that Twitter did so under the orders or suggestion of the Democratic party. That will go way beyond interfernce, in my book—collusion perhaps?
