Kennedy: Why didn’t FBI just say, Time out, Hunter Biden laptop is real? FBI Dir Wray Admits Truth

Election Interference: FBI Director Chris Wray Admits Withholding the Truth About the Hunter Biden Laptop from the American Public Helped Protect Joe Biden During Election Season

On 12/5/2023, In a high-stakes hearing, FBI Director Christopher Wray faced intense questioning from Senate Judiciary Committee members regarding the potential renewal of key surveillance powers under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). These powers, allegedly crucial to the bureau’s national security operations but controversial for their overreach, are set to expire this month amidst a swirling debate over privacy rights and government oversight.

Senator Kennedy (R-LA) steered the discussion towards a more contentious topic: the FBI’s handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop. “Why didn’t the FBI just say, hey, the laptop’s real?” Senator Kennedy asked. “Why didn’t you just tell everybody the laptop’s real. We’re not vouching for what’s on it, but it’s real. This isn’t a fiction.” Kennedy continued, “You’re the FBI. You’re not part of the White House and part of Homeland Security. You’re not supposed to be political. You see all this controversy going on? Why didn’t the FBI said, ‘Time out, folks. We’re not getting to the middle of this, but the laptop’s real.’”

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Wray responded and said that their aim was to avoid election interference, “We have to be very careful about what we can say, especially in the middle of an election season,” Wray explained. A report by the House Ways and Means Committee detailed the FBI’s knowledge and verification of the laptop’s authenticity well before the contentious election period. The report claimed the bureau had verified the laptop as belonging to Hunter Biden as early as November 2019. The FBI seized the laptop from Mac Isaac in December 2019 under the authority of a subpoena issued by a Wilmington grand jury.

Wray just admitted under oath that the FBI deliberately allowed the “laptop is fake” hoax to perpetuate during the first Trump impeachment on a Ukrainian phone call that mentioned Hunter Biden and then in the 2020 election cycle by remaining silent!

Kennedy: Why didn’t FBI just say, Time out, Hunter Biden laptop is real? FBI Dir Wray Admits Withholding Truth

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Transcribed from the video audio:

• And at that time, you had 80 agents interfacing with social media doing whatever they were meeting doing
• The FBI had the Hunter Biden laptop got it on December 9th, 2019
• The New York Post story, which a lot of the social media companies at the suggestion of government took down, the story came out on 10, 14, 2020
• Why didn’t the FBI just say, hey, the laptop’s real
• Why didn’t you just tell everybody the laptop’s real
• We’re not vouching for what’s on it, but it’s real
• Well, as you might imagine, the FBI cannot, especially in a time like that, be talking about an ongoing investigation
• Second, I would tell you that at least my understanding is that both the FBI folks involved in the conversations and the Twitter folks involved in the conversations both say that the FBI did not direct Twitter to suppress that particular story
• Well, again, I can’t speak to others in government
• That’s part of the point that I was trying to make, because the Fisker can’t continue