Massive Biden Cover-Up Exposed – Pardons Won’t Help Him
The media’s unprecedented efforts to shield former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his son Hunter Biden’s legal troubles before his presidency are now coming to light.
According to a Fox News report on Saturday, critics of mainstream media have long accused major outlets of minimizing negative coverage of the 46th president—especially regarding his family’s questionable financial dealings and his declining mental sharpness. These issues became especially evident during last year’s CNN debate, which ultimately led to his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race.
The report suggests that media protection of Biden began as early as May 2019, during the Democratic primary.
Marc Caputo, a former Politico reporter, recently revealed that opposition research from Biden’s Democratic rivals uncovered a “tax lien” linked to Hunter Biden’s work with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. At the time, Biden was leading the Democratic field by a significant margin.
“And I wrote what would have been a classic story saying, you know, ‘The former vice president’s son was slapped with a big tax lien for the period of time that he worked for this controversial Ukrainian oil concern, or natural gas concern, which is haunting his father on the campaign trail,’” Caputo shared on the Somebody’s Gotta Win podcast.
“That story was killed by the editors. And they gave no explanation for that either,” he added.
By October 2020, Biden had secured the Democratic nomination and was slightly ahead of then-President Trump in the polls. It was at this time that the New York Post broke a bombshell report on Hunter Biden’s laptop, exposing new details about his foreign business dealings and possible links to his father.
“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,” Caputo said.
He recalled that Politico’s only coverage of the laptop was a report published under what he described as the “ill-fated headline”: ‘Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say.’ Now writing for Axios, Caputo reflected on how the media framed the issue.
The article cited an open letter signed by 51 intelligence officials, which claimed that the laptop’s contents had “all the earmarks of a Russian intelligence operation.” This narrative was widely pushed by legacy media at the time.
During his second debate with Trump, Biden himself referenced the letter, dismissing the New York Post’s report as a “Russian plant.”
It wasn’t just Politico that allegedly ignored the laptop story. CNN executives also instructed staff not to report on it, as revealed by a leaked audio recording obtained by Project Veritas.
On October 14—the same day the New York Post published its first report on Hunter Biden’s emails—CNN’s political director David Chalian told staff during a conference call, “Obviously, we’re not going with the New York Post story right now on Hunter Biden.”
Tara Palmeri, a former Politico reporter who first covered Hunter Biden’s gun incident that later led to charges, stated that her outlet was slow-walking her investigation.
“I spent three months on it, I went to the laptop shop, and I did all of the reporting in Delaware, and I did all of that. But yeah, it had, it had to be like much—it had to be 100% nailed down,” Palmeri said in an interview with Caputo on the podcast. “I had everything, you know, the police reports… I’m a solid reporter. But I do wonder if it could have, if it would have been published a little quicker if it was a different type of story.”
She then added, “I just think if it was a Trump kid, it would have been published much sooner.”
Beyond shielding Biden from scrutiny over his family’s finances, media protection also extended to questions about the president’s health. A Wall Street Journal report last month revealed that White House officials had been managing Biden’s “good days and bad days” as early as the spring of 2021.
“Yet a sign that the bruising presidential schedule needed to be adjusted for Biden’s advanced age had arisen early on—in just the first few months of his term. Administration officials noticed that the president became tired if meetings went long and would make mistakes,” the Journal reported.
Several journalists, speaking anonymously to Fox News, confirmed that they had noticed Biden appeared “stiff” and “old” during interactions. They also observed that his responses to questions were deliberately brief, almost as if he had been “coached.”