Ex-Politico reporters reveal editors quashed, slow-walked negative Biden stories 'with no explanation'
'Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop,' ex-Politico reporter Marc Caputo recalled
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn , Hanna Panreck Fox News
Published January 23, 2025 6:01pm EST
Two former Politico reporters spoke candidly about efforts made by their bosses to either slow-walk or completely quash their reporting on the Biden family during their time at the news outlet.
Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri, now journalists for Axios and Puck respectively, reflected on their time at Politico on Palmeri's "Somebody's Gotta Win" podcast.
Caputo called out Politico's "ill-fated headline" downplaying the Hunter Biden laptop scandal during the 2020 election.
"I mean, Politico, my former employer, and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors," Caputo said in the exchange, which was shared Thursday on YouTube. "I was covering Biden at the time, and I remember coming to my editor and saying, ‘Hey, we need to write about the Hunter Biden laptop.’ And I was told this came from on high at Politico: Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop. And the only thing Politico wound up writing was that piece that called it disinformation, which charitably could be called misinformation, at the least."
Caputo was referencing Politico's report, which had the headline "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say," on the open letter signed by 51 intelligence officials declaring that the material from Hunter Biden's laptop had "all the earmarks of a Russian intelligence operation." The report came days after The New York Post published its bombshell reporting about the laptop in October 2020.
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