Let’s award 3.14159 stars to Elon Musk for firing Twitter’s lawyer, James Baker, Tuesday.
But there are still a lot of questions that need to be answered about the role of Baker, the FBI’s former Russiagate protagonist, in — not one, but two — censorship scandals.
First, having been parachuted into Twitter conveniently five months before the 2020 election as deputy general counsel and vice president, Baker played an instrumental role in the censorship of The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in October 2020.
Second, Baker was involved in the potential suppression of material that Musk ordered released from Twitter’s files last Friday to reveal who was involved in killing The Post’s story and thus preventing derogatory material about candidate Joe Biden from being disseminated widely. The “most important data was hidden [and] may have been deleted,” Musk says.
When Musk asked Baker what he was up to, “his explanation was . . . unconvincing.”
Musk claims he realized only Sunday that Baker had intervened to suppress “information important to the public dialogue.”
But it was obvious Friday that someone had excised mention of the FBI from the “Twitter Files,” and it wasn’t hard to guess who, once you realized Twitter’s lawyer was Baker, who had been the FBI’s top lawyer involved in every one of the bureau’s Russia-collusion plots against Donald Trump. It’s hard not to see his role as a gatekeeper planted at Twitter to ensure information helpful to Trump’s re-election never saw the light of day.
Let’s award Elon Musk with all 5 stars for exposing the corruptness in the f.b.i. and twitter. He just might have saved our country from self destruction. Elon Musk should be time magazine’s person of the year, but they are so liberal that will never happen. When I was a subscriber to time, they dedicated a whole page every week to bashing President Trump. Needless to say, I will never buy or read the time magazine again.