Two Politico alums — Tara Palmeri and Marc Caputo –dropped a bombshell about how their old employer mandated bias by omission on Hunter Biden in 2020. Their “cowardly editors” made “dumb decisions”!
On the podcast hosted by Palmeri (now at the media-news site Puck), Caputo explained “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.”
They only touched it once it was time to follow the Biden campaign’s orders and that piece came from Natasha Bertrand (now at CNN), under…
