By Mike Huckabee
August 28, 2024
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“It’s great that Mark Zuckerberg wants to talk about it now, but it’s four years too late.”
That’s investigative reporter John Solomon, speaking with FOX NEWS’ Sean Hannity Tuesday night about Zuckerberg’s admission on Monday that, yes, the Hunter Biden laptop was real (really??) and that Facebook cooperated after being pressured by the federal government to censor that story, as well as information about COVID. For longtime readers of this newsletter, this is a big piece of non-news.
Zuckerberg was responding in a letter to questions from the House Judiciary Committee, who praised it as “a big win for free speech,” but he gets no medal from us for stepping up now. Why say only NOW that his company was pressured by the Biden administration to censor content? It’s possible that Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta Platforms, is trying to position himself favorably in case Trump gets back in office, but that seems unlikely to make much difference to Trump, who knows that cooperation with the government to suppress the Hunter laptop story is probably the biggest factor in his loss to Biden in 2020. “Owning up” years later to something we already knew was going on might not help much.
Not only did it hurt Trump --- and in doing so, take our country in an awful direction --- but it was a violation of our most basic right. As Judge Jeanine Pirro said on Tuesday’s THE FIVE, “...Bottom line is, this is confirmation that the Biden administration suppressed free speech of Americans, whether it’s truthful or not, the issue is the freedom of speech.”
We especially like what Greg Gutfeld said about this: “What is it gonna take for everybody to finally believe us, that we’re right on everything?” In the reporting of all these major stories, we have been batting 1000. All the so-called “mis-” and “disinformation” we’ve been accused of spreading has turned out to be true. Even so-called conspiracy theories, like this one about government censorship, true.
Of course, WAY over the line for us was the censorship of humor and satire, as that’s a hill we will die on. You can see by the awful quality and declining viewership of late-night “comedy” shows what happens when all the humor is government-approved.
He was talking about humor and satire related to COVID and vaccines, but he also said Facebook had “demoted” the Hunter laptop story after the FBI “pre-bunked” it by warning them before the 2020 election about a Russian disinformation plot regarding Burisma and the Bidens. The FBI essentially tricked them. (Of course, after the story came out, they tried to trick all of us with that now-infamous “classic earmarks” letter from 51 former intel officials who should ALL have their security clearances revoked forevermore. That includes our current Secretary of State Tony Blinken.)
“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we should not have demoted the story,” Zuckerberg said, adding that he’d changed the company’s policy to not immediately demote a story while waiting for fact-checkers to confirm its authenticity. He didn’t say this, but we will: that should go double for any information that comes from our FBI and/or CIA.
“Let’s be very clear,” said Sean Hannity on Tuesday. “The federal government is totally out of control, and freedoms that you thought you had are nonexistent.”
The FBI lied to the people at Facebook and other social media platforms about the Hunter story being fake, knowing full well that the laptop news was about to break because Rudy Giuliani had obtained a copy of the hard drive. (We strongly suspect they were spying on both him and Miranda Devine at the NEW YORK POST.) Apparently, when the story did break and Facebook executives asked the FBI if it was real or disinformation, they did not advise Facebook that it was real.
Hannity discussed this on Tuesday with Solomon and FOX NEWS analyst Gregg Jarrett. According to Solomon, who said his reporting in 2019 had been driven “by FBI sources who thought the Justice Department wasn’t allowing a legitimate investigation of Hunter Biden.”
The same goes for his reporting on the videotape in which Joe Biden admitted on stage that he had leveraged $1 billion in aid to Ukraine to get President Zelenskyy to fire the lead prosecutor who was looking into Burisma. (Of course, he didn’t mention then that his son was on the board.) Solomon learned about that tape from federal law enforcement officials who were, we would say, “fed”-up with the agency they worked for. “There were people inside [the FBI] that were repeatedly trying to get the truth out that they had evidence on Hunter Biden, and no one would let them pursue it,” Solomon said. “That’s why the laptop gets canceled in the fall of 2020. The American people were denied truth for three or four years.”
In Hannity’s words, they were “putting cinderblocks on the scales of a presidential election,” and Jarrett agreed that they had done just that, sounding very much like us when he said that Zuckerberg “deserves zero credit and only our contempt” after spending years “denying his censorship, refusing to cough up incriminating documents.” The only reason he opened up about it, Jarrett said, was that the Judiciary Committee made him, under “congressional threat.” And he still wouldn’t accept responsibility, blaming “pressure” from the government. Jarrett compared him to a bank robber who was only sorry because he got caught.
Social media sites --- not just Facebook --- “helped throw a presidential election,” he said. They blacklisted people who told the truth and “muzzled valuable information whenever the Biden administration demanded it.” And the administration still has the nerve to claim that Trump is the threat to democracy, when THEY are.
The same suppression of information is happening this time around, too, just with different information. How much are you hearing about Kamala Harris’ record? As Jarrett said, “It wasn’t that long ago that the media dismissed Kamala Harris as a joke” and now she’s “a combination of Mother Teresa and Florence Nightingale.” And...flip-flops? What flip-flops?”
In fact, Solomon would say the media are even worse this time. In his words, “They are more ‘in’ in trying to suppress the truth from the American people than I’ve ever seen in my career.” But he says that those of us with our own platforms --- “and there are more now than there were four or five years ago” --- are still able to go around the legacy media and get the truth out.
Zuckerberg did announce in April that Meta would be “distancing itself from politics” in 2024. Here’s what he said then --- before coming clean about the censorship. Top Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita was wary, likening their push away from politics to “a form of shadow banning.”
It was in April that Wisconsin decided to no longer allow “Zuckerbucks,” the money Zuckerberg and others on the left donated as private funding for the placement of ballot dropboxes in heavily Democrat cities. Here’s the must-read story…
In his same letter this week, Zuckerberg acknowledged that “Zuckerbucks” had given a bad impression and said he wouldn’t be repeating that donation. (Again, he’s a bit late, as Wisconsin has already banned it.) By the way, the idea for “Zuckerbucks” came from the endlessly diabolical Democrat consultant David Plouffe, who now happens to be running Kamala’s campaign. Not kidding. Another must-read...
RELATED: I was on Outnumbered discussing this on on Fox yesterday:
https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/
Addendum: Who needs Facebook to do the censorious government’s bidding when you’ve got Google, Gavin Newsom and UC Berkeley School of “Journalism” teaming to fund local journalism and AI research? With this kind of collaboration, what could possibly go wrong?
RELATED ELECTION INTERFERENCE NEWS: Jack Smith just won’t stop; files revised Trump indictment
Also from JUST THE NEWS, the ruling from the Supreme Court about presidential immunity hasn’t even slowed “Special Counsel” Jack Smith down. The thought of interfering with the imminent election hasn’t slowed him down, either; instead, it’s motivating him. He’s filed a superseding indictment in the January 6 case that skirts what might be considered presidential authority by narrowing the allegations but applying the same charges.
But the Trump War Room responded with a powerful statement, in which President Trump says this indictment, a desperate move by Smith, has all the problems of the original indictment, as he “rewrote the exact same case,” and should be dismissed “IMMEDIATELY.” It’s also an attempt to interfere with the election. “This is for Third World countries and Banana Republics,” Trump says, “not the USA.”
“Interestingly,” he says, “this comes at the exact same time as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has admitted to concealing massive amounts of information…”
Trump also points out that this superseding indictment may violate DOJ policy, coming as it does within 60 days of an election. (In some states, early voting starts in September --- as early as the 6th. It shouldn’t, but it does.) Smith will argue that this rule doesn’t apply to a revised indictment, only a new one. The only reason for him to do this now is that he WANTS to affect the election.
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