Report: Biden Campaign Pressured Officials to Sign Letter Claiming Hunter Emails Were Fake
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 21 April 2023
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The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (04/21/2023):
3:05pm- According to a report from The New York Post’s Miranda Devine, “Joe Biden’s presidential campaign prompted former acting CIA Director Mike Morell to ‘help Biden’ by organizing 50 colleagues to sign a letter in October 2020 falsely claiming that damning emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop published by The Post were Russian disinformation. In private sworn testimony, Morell told the House Judiciary Committee that Antony Blinken, now secretary of state, was the senior campaign official who reached out to him ‘on or before’ Oct. 17, 2020, three days after The Post published an email from the laptop suggesting Hunter had introduced his Ukrainian business partner to his father, then-Vice President Biden.” You read Devine’s full article here: https://nypost.com/2023/04/20/biden-campaign-pushed-spies-to-write-false-hunter-laptop-letter/
3:20pm- In a montage posted to Twitter consisting of clips from October 2022, news outlets like CNN, NBC, MSNBC, and CBS can be seen speculating that Hunter Biden’s emails were a byproduct of a “foreign intelligence operation” or “Russian disinformation.”
3:45pm- Twitter has removed its signature “blue-check mark” from verified celebrity accounts and now requires anyone who wants verification to pay an $8-per-month subscription fee. Disgusted by the new policy, Better Midler tweeted: “Elon took my blue check away! I’m unverified! After all these years and thousands of tweets and free content, this worm has the nerve to de-certify me!” Rich wonders, Bette Midler does not have $8-a-month?
4:05pm- ABC News Senior Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas reported that in response to allegations being made by an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblower who says that the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice is mishandling an investigation into Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden’s attorney accused the whistleblower of “committing a crime.”
4:10pm- While speaking with Bret Baier on Fox News, Attorney Mark Lyle—representing an IRS whistleblower—said that his client has no political agenda to push by coming forward.
4:15pm- The New York Post’s Miranda Devine told Fox News’ Stuart Varney that if the Joe Biden presidential campaign team pressured intelligence officials to sign a letter claiming Hunter Biden’s emails were Russian disinformation, then the now-acting Secretary of State Antony Blinken “intentionally planted false information about a foreign nation.” Devine notes that the United States is now involved in a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
4:20pm- According to a report from Sarah Fitzpatrick, Tom Winter, Ken Dilanian and Michael Kosnar of NBC News, “[f]ederal prosecutors have considered charging Hunter Biden with three tax crimes and a charge related to a gun purchase, said two sources familiar with the matter. The possible charges are two misdemeanor counts for failure to file taxes, a single felony count of tax evasion related to a business expense for one year of taxes, and the gun charge, also a potential felony.” You can read the full report here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/federal-prosecutors-hunter-biden-taxes-gun-charge-rcna80692
4:30pm- Daniel Turner—Founder & Executive Director of Power the Future—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) reintroducing their Green New Deal legislation. Turner also talks about his recent experience testifying on Capitol Hill where he compared the sudden push for exclusively green energy to communism—both movements completely ignore market forces. He concedes that the green movement may believe they have good intentions, but that many might argue “Mao’s economic intentions were also good.”
4:50pm- According to a report from Broad + Liberty’s Chief Investigative Reporter Todd Shepherd, in the first 16-weeks of 2023 there have been an outlandish 6,334 cars reported stolen in Philadelphia.
5:00pm- The Drive at 5: Is New York City declaring war on cheeseburgers? Noah Rothman—a Senior Writer at National Review & author of “The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives’ War on Fun”—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his recent article, “Yes, They’re Coming for Your Burgers.” Rothman writes, “[New York City Mayor Eric] Adam’s boosterism for a ‘plant-powered diet’ supplements his efforts to expand a program he inherited from former mayor Bill de Blasio, which is now designed to reduce the city’s carbon footprint by 33 percent in 2030 by cutting back on protein purchases. Adams scolded his fellow environmentalists for devoting most of their carbon-cutting efforts to curbing the combustion of fossil fuels. ‘But we now have to talk about beef,’ he insisted.” You can read Rothman’s full article here: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/yes-theyre-coming-for-your-burgers/
5:30pm- Jimmy Failla—stand-up comedian & Fox News Radio host—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his recent stint hosting Kennedy on Fox Business Network…Rich also appeared on the episode. Did we mention that? You can hear The Best of Jimmy Failla every Saturday on 1210 WPHT and make sure to get tickets for his Laughs & Liberty Tour with Kennedy!
6:05pm- On Thursday, the House of Representatives advanced legislation that would prevent biological males from competing in women’s sports. Ari Blaff of National Review writes, “[t]he House measure seeks to amend federal law so that ‘sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth,’ in order to determine Title IX athletics compliance. Title IX mandates that institutions that receive public funding from the federal government cannot discriminate on the basis of sex.” The bill passed along partisan lines—"with 219 Republicans voting in favor and 203 Democrats voting against.” You can read more here: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/zero-house-democrats-vote-to-protect-womens-sports-from-male-intrusion/
6:10pm- House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jefferies claimed that biological males competing in female sports is “an issue that doesn’t really exist.” So, then why do Democrats care so much?
6:30pm- While speaking at a House hearing, Biden Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said he was against school choice, explaining: “I don’t believe in using federal dollars to support voucher programs.”
6:45pm- According to The New York Post’s Miranda Devine, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign team pressured intelligence officials to sign a letter claiming Hunter Biden’s emails were Russian disinformation—including the now-acting Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who Devine says “intentionally planted false information about a foreign nation.”
6:50pm- What?!?! Al Pacino reveals he nearly played Han Solo in Star Wars.
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| 0:30.0 | The only reason why people thought it was Russian is because the intelligence community colluded with the Biden administration and the Biden campaign to make you think that. That's right. Welcome to the show. Glad you're here. It's Friday. We made it through the week. Happy Friday. 855-839-1210 on Twitter at Rich. See, only great to be with you today. Oh, we loaded up. We got a lot to talk about. |
| 1:00.0 | Great guest coming up later in the show as well today. So we'll touch on all the big issues and of course get your reaction at 855-839-1210. So it turns out that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken helped craft the letter to discredit the Hunter Biden laptop story. This is a huge, huge deal. It's also a big deal. Excuse me, because Attorney General Merrick Garland had a lot to say it turns out under oath in front of the Senate committee. So there's a lot to break down about this. |
| 1:30.0 | But I think the key thing to take away is that you were lied to, you were manipulated and the 2020 election. If you want to talk about election interference, there's your election interference. The absolute audacity of them to manipulate the American people like this on a major consequential issue. And look, if it wasn't an issue, then they never would have had to do it. So the way you can prove to yourself that it was a big issue is the fact that they did what they did, which is to make everybody believe it was Russian disinformation. |
| 1:59.0 | And specifically, Blinken, with all of his contacts in the intelligence deep state, the guy who's now the Secretary of State of the United States of America, advising the Biden campaign and getting all his little buddies out there to turn around and to go forward and say this. |
| 2:15.0 | And you know, it's a good thing that we're hearing about this now. It shouldn't surprise anybody though. None of this should be surprising to you. |
| 2:25.0 | We talked about the 2020 election a lot and everybody focused on dominion voting machines and they focused on ballots and everything. But the one thing that you can absolutely say and there's no defamation involved in it is that the Biden campaign colluded to distract the American people and not even just distract to purposely make them believe the Hunter Biden laptop was not real. And the three, the triad, the unholy triad of the government, specifically the deep state. |
| 2:53.0 | The corporate media and big tech working together to make sure that you and everybody believe it was Russian disinformation that letter that came out 51 former national intelligence officials all say the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation is a full gazing the whole thing was a full gazing. |
| 3:13.0 | And I give the media credit I actually do I mean not I mean not every one of the media, but people like Catherine Harris, for example, CBS news. |
| 3:20.0 | We did a very in-depth report about this. The only reason why the media is even talking about this is I believe is because they want Biden to go. It's the same reason why they make jokes about him now. |
| 3:28.0 | They don't want him to be the nominee in 2024. They're very nervous. You think about the fact that the economy stinks. Biden is is out of it. He lost it, lost his marbles. |
| 3:38.0 | And then you think about the Hunter Biden stuff and what shoe could drop in the middle of the presidential election Democrats want him gone. And unfortunately for them Biden seems to be digging his heels in. |
| 3:49.0 | So I think all of this coming out is not by surprise. I think that the media reporting about the legacy media the corporate media ABC CBS NBC the fact that they are actually touching this tells you everything you need to know. |
| 4:01.0 | If they wanted Biden to stay if they were rallying behind him, you wouldn't you wouldn't have heard about it. You wouldn't you would not hear about it. You hear about it on Fox News, you hear about on talk radio. |
| 4:10.0 | You hear about on certain sites like the Daily Call or others, but that's it. That's that's all you would know. |
| 4:14.0 | But it turns out that everything we know about the Hunter Biden laptop story. Now they knew then I mean they knew that it was real. The FBI had it in their possession. |
| 4:25.0 | The near post posted the receipt basically from the FBI taking it. And yet we were all lied to and the media went along with this idea that it was Russian disinformation over and over and over again. |
| 4:36.0 | We have a montage going to play for you of all the legacy media, all the corporate media tightens going on about how it was Russian disinformation. |
| 4:44.0 | You and I were manipulated. We were lied to. I never believed it. And I'm sure you didn't either because you're a very smart person. That's why you listen to the show obviously. |
| 4:55.0 | But a lot of people might have been duped by this enough where they said it wasn't a real thing or it was more of Trump's Russian collusion. |
| 5:05.0 | Now is it a big deal? Obviously otherwise they wouldn't have gone to the lengths to make you think that it was Russian disinformation. |
| 5:11.0 | And what do people think about the idea of a president whose son was doing all this work with China and Ukraine and possibly and remember possibly kicking money back to the big guy. |
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