The New York Post was censored by Twitter and Facebook after breaking the Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020, despite the fact that the story was true and not, as some claimed, “Russian disinformation.” Now the Post is doubling down in exposing what the newspaper calls “the Biden family criminal enterprise” with an exclusive, but, as far as Cockburn can tell, unsubstantiated video of Gal Luft, whom the Post asserts is “a key would-be witness on Biden family corruption.”
In a separate piece about the video, Post columnist Miranda Devine explains how “the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.”
Luft refers to sharing with the US government his knowledge about the Biden family’s relations with CEFC in 2019 his “fatal decision” and refers to its aftermath as his “ordeal.” According to Luft, he was arrested in February of this year “by the very same office that met with [him] in Brussels.” He also says he was portrayed as “arms dealer” by the international media, though he says he never traded so much as a bullet in his life. This is, presumably, an attempt to explain away the fact that he was charged with violating the Arms Export Control Act, a charge that brings with it a penalty of up to 100 years in prison.
In an editorial questioning the mainstream media’s silence surrounding the Biden family corruption story, the Post is careful not to affirm Luft’s astonishing allegations as legitimate. Luft “alleges that he provided evidence of Biden family misdeeds to the FBI in 2019,” the Post reports, and he “claims too that his own 2023 arrest was meant to stop him from testifying before the House Oversight Committee…”
Without sound proof, it’s curious that the Post would risk further censorship, when another much more solid story landed the paper on a blacklist. Still, it could be that the Post is on the verge of evidence to verify Luft’s claims. Either that, or the story is simply the jumping-off point by which the Post can reiterate its “Conspiracy of Silence” trope and get tons of clicks while they’re at it. Unlike some of the other Hunter stories this week, Cockburn isn’t convinced this one passes the sniff test…
