New details have emerged about one of the most egregious and high-profile censorship scandals in modern history,

one that potentially altered the outcome of the 2020 election.

Just weeks before the election, the New York Post published a report on the infamous Hunter Biden laptop.

But as we've now learned, within hours, the FBI was working

to discredit the story and even spin a narrative that the laptop was the product of a Russian

disinformation campaign. In this episode, we sit down with a journalist who was at the post when

the laptop's story dropped and the cover-up and smear operation against the outlet began. I'm Daily Wire,

editor-in-chief John Bickley, with Georgia Howe. It's Sunday, April 6th, and this is a weekend edition

of Morning Wire.

Joining us now to discuss new revelations about the Hunter Biden cover-up scandal is John Levine, formerly with the New York Post and now with the free beacon.

John, thank you so much for coming on. Thank you for having me.

Look, you were a reporter at the New York Post when that newspaper broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, a major moment.

Your outlet was immediately throttled by social media, even kicked off of what was then Twitter,

which was really remarkable. Now we're learning from the House Judiciary Committee that the day

the New York Post actually first reported on that story, the FBI told employees, do not discuss

the Biden matter and imposed a gag order on an analyst who tried to confirm the story's veracity. This is a new

detail we hadn't heard before. What do you know about this? Well, I will tell you, I just learned

what you just said as well about the gag order. And if you believe Catherine Harrods reported on X,

that an FBI employee did actually confirm the authenticity of the hard drive in a call that same day before the

gag order was instituted. And we already kind of knew the FBI knew it was real, but the sort of

real-time details, like on the very same day, they knew it was real, that's new. And it's extra insidious

because if you go back to that time, which is now, you know, five years ago, the FBI was running around that same week saying, well, we're looking into this being a Russian information dump.

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