JIM TREACHER: Happy Anniversary to Hunter’s Laptop.
Four years ago today, my Twitter account was instantly suspended for posting the following picture:
That’s Hunter Biden. The photo came from the laptop he abandoned at a Delaware repair shop, less than five miles from his father’s house.
Vladimir Putin didn’t take that snapshot. He didn’t plant the laptop. It belonged to Hunter, who then abandoned it and lost legal custody of it because he’s a drug addict.
And yet when I posted that photo in October 2020, just weeks before the election, my Twitter account was instantly locked down.
I don’t mean within minutes, either. The instant I clicked the button to post that, I was locked out of my account.
Here’s the warning I received:
I had been censored. Lil’ ol’ me!
So I removed the tweet, under duress, to restore access to my account.
As it turned out, I was far from the only one. Anybody who shared any part of that news story — and it is a news story — got instantly locked down by Twitter. You couldn’t even share the URL of the original NY Post story. A complete blackout.
The Democrats wanted Trump out of the White House, and they thought this story would interfere with that. So they locked it down.
Exit quote: “Hunter’s laptop. COVID-19. ‘Climate change.’ Letting boys beat up girls in sports. No matter the issue, some very powerful Democrats want you to shut up about it. You can vote however you want, but you can’t make me complicit.”