Two FBI agents involved in the Hunter Biden laptop saga lied about the computer, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee has claimed.
Jim Jordan on Monday published excerpts of the testimony given by Elvis Chan, who served as one of the FBI’s liaisons with tech companies, and Laura Dehmlow, the current FBI section chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force.
Chan testified in November 2022 as part of Missouri and Louisiana’s lawsuit against the federal government and the Biden Administration for colluding with social media companies to censor speech.
Jordan said that Chan held a repeat meeting with Facebook about the laptop, but testified he had only had one session. He also testified that he was not aware of internal debate about the laptop, but told a colleague he was ‘up to speed’.
Dehmlow spoke to Jordan’s committee last month.
Jordan said that Dehmlow revealed how the FBI knew the laptop was not a forgery or plant, but refused to confirm its authenticity to social media companies.
Jordan on Monday tweeted that new internal Facebook documents have resulted in bombshell revelations about Hunter Biden’s laptop, arguing that it illustrated the FBI knew the laptop was authentic and belonged to him – but refused to confirm the fact to Facebook and Twitter.
That decision led to the New York Post’s report about the laptop being blocked by the social media companies, who labelled it as disinformation.
‘Internal FB docs reveal that an FBI Special Agent made false statements in testimony about the FBI’s role in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story,’ tweeted Jordan.
Jordan explained in a Twitter thread how, on October 14, 2020, The New York Post published its first story about the laptop, which Biden had left behind in a Delaware repair shop.
The laptop contained a trove of the businessman’s financial information, plus reams of messages between him and his father – at that point, preparing for the November election. The laptop also contained a large number of deeply embarrassing photos of the troubled lawyer cavorting with prostitutes and taking drugs, at the height of his addiction.
On the day the Post published its story, Chan and Dehmlow met with representatives of Twitter and then Facebook.
Twitter’s team asked whether the FBI thought Hunter Biden’s laptop was real: one FBI representative replied yes, and then another quickly said: ‘No comment.’
