• The FBI knew Hunter Biden’s laptop was authentic in 2019 but silenced agents from confirming it before the 2020 election.
• Internal logs reveal FBI officials suppressed analysts who tried to counter the false “Russian disinformation” narrative.
• Social media platforms censored the New York Post’s reporting, falsely labeling it as Russian propaganda.
• Emails on the laptop implicated Hunter Biden in influence-peddling, with 10% of payments allegedly meant for “the Big Guy” (Joe Biden).
• Biden’s 2025 pardons of Hunter and others fueled suspicions of a cover-up, raising concerns about election interference.

In the critical weeks before the 2020 election, the FBI knew Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop was authentic but imposed a strict “gag order” on agents to prevent them from confirming its legitimacy while social media giants censored the New York Post’s bombshell reporting.

Newly released internal chat logs, published by the House Judiciary Committee, expose a deliberate effort by bureau officials to silence analysts who sought to correct the false “Russian disinformation” narrative that dominated Big Tech’s suppression of the story. The revelations raise alarming questions about whether the FBI’s inaction helped shield then-candidate Joe Biden from scrutiny over his family’s foreign business dealings, potentially altering the election’s outcome.

The FBI’s orchestrated silence

On October 14, 2020, the day the Post published its first exposé on Hunter Biden’s laptop—detailing his tax evasion, drug use, and influence-peddling schemes with foreign entities—FBI officials instructed agents: “Please do not discuss Biden matter.” The logs show agents, including Laura Dehmlow, Bradley Benavides, and James Dennehy, acknowledging the story but adhering to a directive to avoid commentary. One exchange reveals frustration with an analyst who defied orders: “Yes but he won’t [sic] shut up,” a colleague complained after the analyst was “admonished” for nearly confirming the laptop’s authenticity during a Zoom call with Twitter.

The FBI had verified the laptop’s contents a full year earlier, in 2019, by matching its serial number to Hunter’s iCloud backups, as confirmed by FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen during Hunter’s 2024 criminal trial. Yet the bureau’s silence allowed social media platforms to falsely label the story as Russian propaganda, citing a prior FBI warning about potential “hack-and-leak” operations.

Collusion with Big Tech

The logs underscore how the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force, led by Dehmlow, played a pivotal role in shaping Big Tech’s response. During a meeting with Twitter, an FBI analyst began to confirm the laptop’s legitimacy before being cut off by an agency attorney. Twitter and Facebook then aggressively censored the Post’s reporting, even locking its account for days. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg later admitted the suppression was a mistake, while Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” exposed internal bias against the story before he took over the social media platform.

The laptop’s contents were damning: emails showed Hunter leveraging his father’s political clout to secure millions from foreign oligarchs, with 10% allegedly earmarked for “the Big Guy”—a term Hunter’s ex-business partner Devon Archer identified as referring to Joe Biden. Republicans allege this was a brazen influence-peddling scheme, with then-Vice President Biden joining Hunter’s calls with clients at least 20 times.

President Biden’s sweeping 2025 pardons of Hunter and other family members—covering crimes from 2014 to 2025—further fueled suspicions of a cover-up. The pardons came after Hunter’s convictions for tax evasion and illegal gun possession, and as House Republicans uncovered over $27 million in foreign payments to Biden-linked entities.

The FBI’s refusal to correct the record in 2020, despite its own verification, raises profound concerns about election interference. With the chat logs now public, Americans are left to wonder: Did the bureau’s silence help steal an election?

The FBI’s gag order on the Hunter Biden laptop scandal represents one of the most egregious abuses of power in recent political history. By withholding the truth while social media giants silenced legitimate journalism, the bureau may have tipped the scales in a razor-thin election. The pardons that followed only deepen the stench of corruption. As these logs prove, the American people were deliberately kept in the dark.

Sources for this article include:

HeadlineUSA.com

NationalReview.com

ZeroHedge.com