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Seems like the October Surprise happens every election cycle – someone tries to drop a bomb to derail the opposition. Oftimes, it is more or less ignored – anyone notice that supposedly Jeffrey Epstein claimed Trump was his best bud for at least a year, not just the ‘met a few times and didn’t gel’ Trump disclaimer? Hard to credit second and third-hand claims which can’t be verified. Well, we know Hunter’s laptop was buried by the mainstream media – here is part of how.<\/p>\n
CBS News went to great lengths to squash correspondent Catherine Herridge\u2019s reporting about the Hunter Biden laptop just weeks before the 2020 election, the award-winning investigative journalist claimed.<\/p>\n
In her bombshell allegation, Herridge revealed she brought evidence to CBS News executive Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews and \u201cCBS Evening News\u201d anchor Norah O\u2019Donnell in early October 2020 that the laptop contained material about \u201ca million dollar retainer from a Chinese energy firm,\u201d along with business texts and emails from the son of Democratic challenger Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
But later that month, Herridge wrote that she was shocked to see \u201c60 Minutes\u201d correspondent Lesley Stahl say the laptop \u201ccouldn\u2019t be verified\u201d during a tense interview with then-President Donald Trump<\/p>\n
She added that she was surprised that \u201c60 Minutes\u201d \u2014 which came under fire last month for allegedly editing comments made by Vice President Kamala Harris to avoid a \u201cword salad\u201d answer about the Middle East conflict \u2014 had not been working with the news division to confirm her reporting.<\/p>\n
There was such a \u201cdisconnect\u201d between the two entities, she said.<\/p>\n
Before Stahl\u2019s segment aired, she was contacted by Ciprian-Matthews asking her if she had \u201cconfirmed reporting\u201d on the Hunter Biden story for O\u2019Donnell\u2019s broadcast.<\/p>\n
Herridge assured the executive that her extensive reporting included \u201cworking the phones, reaching out to people on the Hunter Biden emails for corroboration and cross-referencing court records.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told Ciprian-Matthews the vetted materials included a million dollar retainer from a Chinese energy firm, emails with Hunter Biden\u2019s former business partner Tony Bobulinski as well as Hunter Biden text messages,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAsked by Ciprian-Matthews if there was a \u2018Hunter connection,\u2019 I responded, \u2018Yes, all of them,’\u201d she wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sounds pretty clear to me, grist for a news group’s mill, right?<\/p>\n
The journalist noted that based on her experience at the network, she found it odd that CBS News did not task the investigative unit in October 2020 to develop more reporting on the laptop.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would have been standard practice,\u201d Herridge wrote.<\/p>\n
The Post (NY Post – ed.) was the only mainstream publication to report at the time that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden \u2014 leading to a ban of the story by social media giants Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n
It took an additional two years for CBS to broadcast a forensic review of the Hunter Biden laptop data.\u00a0By that time, Ciprian-Matthews had been elevated to the role of CBS News president.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not to mention that the election that mattered in 2020 was dead and buried, Hunter’s daddy
and China beneficiary<\/del> in the White House.<\/p>\nHerridge was ousted earlier this year amid sweeping cuts at the network and parent company Paramount Global. CBS News seized Herridge\u2019s reporting materials upon her termination.<\/p>\n
Sources close to the situation claimed that the decision to hold on to her files was made by Ciprian-Matthews. The files were returned days later amid pressure from the union representing Herridge.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, The Post revealed that Ciprian-Matthews was accused of sidelining white journalists and blocking Herridge\u2019s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop.<\/p>\n
The exec abruptly stepped down in August, and moved to the role of senior adviser for coverage of the 2024 presidential election before. She is set to exit the company after the election. NY Post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Don’t think Ms. C-M (pictured above) is headed to the White House, now, is she?<\/p>\n
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