“Not to the best of my recollection,” she said. Gadde, did you talk to anyone from the FBI?” Armstrong turned.
They have specifically told you in October that there’s going to be a leak potentially involving Hunter Biden’s laptop that legitimately and literally prophesied what happened and you didn’t contact any of them?” Armstrong scoffed. “You’re talking to these people for weeks and months - years - prior to this leaking. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) expressed incredulity at the lapses in memory - saying it didn’t pass “the smell test” for the former executives to claim not to recall any conversations with the FBI before censoring The Post.įormer Twitter deputy general counsel James Baker said he didn’t recall discussing Hunter Biden’s laptop with any of the 51 former intelligence officials who claimed it was Russian misinformation. “Twitter didn’t give me access to my laptop, but Special Agent Chan has said publicly and the FBI has confirmed that those documents did not relate to Hunter Biden and that’s my recollection,” insisted Roth, who resigned his position in November of last year. The FBI paid Twitter $3.5 million from October 2019 to February 2021 to process its moderation requests, according to documents released by Elon Musk. 13, 2020, hours before the first laptop story was published. Roth also claimed to have forgotten the exact contents of 10 documents sent to him and another Twitter executive by San Francisco FBI agent Elvis Chan via a special transmission platform called Teleporter on the night of Oct. Brennan or anyone else that he knows of who signed that letter?”įinally, Baker said, “I don’t recall discussing that publication they did about the Hunter Biden laptop with any of those people.” “How about the three I just mentioned?” Jordan followed up. Jordan pressed, “Have you talked to them in your time at Twitter?” But Baker said, “I can’t remember who’s on that list, so I’m afraid -” There are allegations that the FBI became involved with Hunter Biden’s laptop scandal. “I’ve talked to those people during the course of my career, yes,” Baker replied. “ Clapper, Brennan, Morell -” Jordan offered. “Sir, I can’t remember who’s on that group,” answered Baker, kicking off a tortuous back-and-forth.
Moments later, as Jordan pressed further, Baker seemed to contradict himself: “Sitting here today, I don’t recall speaking with the FBI at all about the Hunter Biden matter - the laptop.” “Did you talk to them after?” Jordan pressed, to which Baker said, “I do not recall.” 14, 2020, when The Post published the first of its world-exclusive reports. “To the best of my recollection, I did not talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden story before that day,” replied Baker, referencing Oct. “Simple question, did you talk to the FBI about the Hunter Biden story?” Jordan asked Baker point-blank at one point. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), former Twitter deputy general counsel James Baker, ex-head of trust and safety Yoel Roth and former policy director Vijaya Gadde took turns deflecting allegations of “collusion” between the FBI and Twitter to censor The Post. WASHINGTON - A trio of former bigwigs at Twitter told the House Oversight Committee Wednesday they could not recall major facts about the decision to suppress The Post’s bombshell October 2020 stories on Hunter Biden’s laptop - though one claimed the decision was based in part on the social media giant’s own echo chamber rather than the demands of federal law enforcement. Hunter Biden deposed over foreign earnings in child support case - and baby mama shows up Burisma had Hunter Biden help open account with corrupt Malta bankĬhina’s Xi Jinping rebuffs Blinken bid to restart military hotlineĬomer says key witnesses still to come in Biden family influence-peddling probe
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