A senior FBI official allegedly informed Twitter that the abandoned laptop believed to have belonged to Hunter Biden was real on the same day the New York Post broke news about the device’s contents in a story that Twitter went on to censor, according to newly-released testimony.
Laura Dehmlow, the section chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), spoke with the House Judiciary Committee and Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government this week, House Judiciary Republicans announced on Thursday.
Citing her testimony, Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) said in a new letter that the FITF attended a previously scheduled meeting with Twitter on October 14, 2020 — the morning of which the Post published its “smoking-gun” email story — and during that discussion, a Twitter employee asked FITF about the authenticity of the laptop.
Testimony reveals the FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop was authentic, but when asked by a social media…