‘Spread Us A Bunch Of BS’: Reporter Dishes On FBI’s Coverup Of Hunter Biden Laptop

In an interview with Morning Wire that was released on Sunday, Washington Free Beacon reporter Jon Levine opened up about the FBI’s coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020.

Earlier this week, the House Judiciary Committee revealed that after the New York Post published the Biden laptop story in October 2020, the FBI instructed its agents not to discuss it and even scolded one agent for confirming the story’s authenticity. According to chat logs released by the House Judiciary Committee, an FBI analyst confirmed the Biden laptop story to Twitter and was promptly “admonished” by higher-ups who lamented that “he won’t shut up.”

In one discussion, an FBI attorney told an agent, “Please do not discuss the Biden matter.”

Levine, who formerly wrote for the New York Post, told Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley that he and his team at the Post “already kind of knew the FBI knew [the laptop] was real,” but added that the House Judiciary Committee’s revelations were “new” to him.

“And it’s extra insidious because if you go back to that time, which is now five years ago, the FBI was running around that same week saying, ‘Well, we’re looking into this being a Russian information dump,'” Levine said. “So on the same week, the same day, they knew it was real, they were counter-programming the narrative.”

A Daily Wire review of the contents of Biden’s laptop conducted by reporter Luke Rosiak revealed Hunter Biden’s attempts to use the family name for massive business deals and propose business plans that would apparently include Joe Biden.

The FBI appeared to know about the laptop in the weeks before the story dropped, asking social media companies to look out for a Russian “hack and leak” operation involving Hunter Biden. The suppression of the story — and of the New York Post — that followed likely had a major impact on the 2020 presidential election.

“They were actively casting doubt on it when they knew it was real. And it’s inescapable now that it was clearly so they could help steer the election towards Joe Biden, which is actually what happened,” Levine told Morning Wire.

It would have been one thing for the FBI to say that it was looking into the matter and wasn’t going to comment, but the bureau actively tried to discredit the story, Levine said.

“When they were actually the ones who were speaking the falsehoods, we were trying to tell the truth. They essentially ran an information operation on the American people,” he added. “They spread us a bunch of BS because the truth was detrimental to Joe Biden. They didn’t want it out.”

Asked if he thinks trust in the FBI can be restored under new leadership after the Hunter Biden laptop saga, Levine said that there must be a complete overhaul of the top leadership and mid-management agents.

“It’s not the rank and file people. They’re very good,” he said, adding, “I think we should get a slimmed-down FBI because obviously we’ve seen how they abuse their power, and Democrats will be in charge at some point again. And I don’t want a giant FBI in the hands of Democrats.”