Was the FBI acting as an active oppositional force to Donald Trump during the 2020 election? That’s the story former DNI John Ratcliffe told Friday evening on Tucker Carlson’s show.
Recent revelations about how the bureau tried to suppress the damaging Hunter Biden story, including going to Facebook to falsely suggest it was Russian disinformation, have painted a picture of subterfuge to help elect Joe Biden. Ratcliffe told Carlson during his interview that while all that was going on, FBI Dir. Christopher Wray was telling the White House a very different story.
This confirms what was already suspected given that the FBI took possession of the laptop back in 2019. By the time field agents went to Facebook to “warn” them that it was Russian disinformation, there is no question they knew that was a lie. They themselves had the laptop and knew that what was on it was authentic.
As Ratcliffe notes, Democrats, including Rep. Adam Schiff, were still allowed to go out and claim falsely that the laptop wasn’t real. Dozens of former intel directors and agents also signed a letter pushing the Russian disinformation claim at the time. All the while, Wray was telling the White House that they knew the truth, yet the FBI did nothing to rectify the situation while actively trying to exacerbate it on the other end by lying to Facebook – and presumably, every other major social media platform.