Former Reporters for Politico Claim Outlet Squashed Negative Stories About the Bidens
“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.”

Two reporters who used to work for the liberal outlet Politico, Tara Palmeri and Marc Caputo, recently had a rather candid conversation about how their former employer suppressed negative stories about Hunter Biden and former President Joe Biden.
We all knew this was happening, particularly with regards to the Hunter Biden laptop story, but it’s nice to get confirmation on these things once in a while.
The Daily Caller reports:
‘Don’t Write About The Laptop’: Two Former Politico Reporters Allege Outlet Shot Down Negative Stories About Bidens
Two former reporters with Politico accused the outlet of suppressing negative stories about former President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential election in a video clip posted to YouTube Thursday.
Dozens of former intelligence officials signed an October 2020 letter published by Politico that claimed a bombshell New York Post report about emails from a laptop supposedly abandoned by Hunter Biden “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Puck News reporter Tara Palmeri and Axios reporter Marc Caputo discussed the Politico newsroom’s approach to unflattering reports about the Bidens on Palmeri’s podcast, “Somebody’s Gotta Win,” though the outlet has denied their allegations.
“Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation, or bore the hallmarks of disinformation. Turns out that story was closer to disinformation because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true,” Caputo told Palmeri, who responded. “But then Facebook also pulled all stories down about the Hunter Biden laptop, and I think Twitter did at the same time, too.”…
“Correct, they punished The New York Post, that didn’t help. I mean, Politico, my former employer and I knew at the time, didn’t do itself any favors,” said Caputo. “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.
Watch the clip below:
🔥Two former Politico reporters, @tarapalmeri and Marc Caputo, level bombshell allegations against the outlet over its coverage of the Bidens. 🔥 @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/rptPbrA5qR
— Harold Hutchison (@HaroldHutchison) January 23, 2025
How brave of them to come clean about this… now.
But why wait until now @tarapalmeri & #MarcCaputo? Isn’t your job to speak truth to power!? https://t.co/JMh7chQdXo
— Mark Bradley (@marcusxavier88) January 24, 2025
Actual news stories were axed (Hunter laptop & gun) because they would have hurt Joe Biden. Fake stories (51 intelligence officials) were published to protect him. All to throw an election to the Dems. These two shrug their shoulders. Aw shucks! Amazing. Why are they not furious? https://t.co/6pq7DEiKXU
— Super Journalist (Retired) – JOURN-EL of Skrypton (@Magnum_CK) January 23, 2025
FOX News has a response from Politico:
A spokesperson for Politico previously released a statement pushing back at Caputo and Palmeri’s comments made on the podcast by touting how its journalists “led the way on wide-ranging reporting on the business dealings of Joe Biden’s closest relatives” as well as its verification of the Hunter Biden laptop, suggesting the former staffers have “a case of false memory.”
The spokesperson even called their claims “bulls—.”
“Our editors uphold rigorous standards, ensuring every story is thoroughly vetted and ‘buttoned up’ before publishing. This approach reflects our unwavering commitment to accuracy and accountability—principles that have guided us and will continue to do so,” the statement read.
This will do nothing to help with the media’s incredibly low approval rating, or encourage people to trust them more.
It also reinforces the idea that much of our media functions as a public relations arm for the Democratic party.

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All that help from the press and the Dems still had to pad the ballot boxes with mail-ins to win.
Sigh…but they did…
We all knew this already
The world’s worst kept secret. Everybody already knew Biden was an empty shell with the exception of Lloyd Austin who was under anesthesia.
It’s one thing for bent politicians to accept “gifts” from the domestic big businesses that rule our nation, but for the number 2 man in the country (later to become president) to accept foreign government and quasi corporate/foreign government funds smacks of treason.
Yet, the entire establishment was fine with this. Let the dope figurehead have his beach house and gold cufflinks and the country be damned.
How brave it was for Palmeri and Caputo to wait until after the 2024 election to come forward. Their unwavering integrity will serve as inspiration for future journalists.
Maybe they can hire on at CNN as recovered ‘journalists’.
“Supposedly recovered” journalists.
“Functioning fakaholics.”
Maybe they’re angling for a position in conservative media? Seeing as leftist media is going down in flames.
So Politico is claiming incompetence rather than malice?
Even one of the most popular science-communicators on YouTube is starting to tell the truth, however belatedly and indirectly. Please ignore the title of the following vid, and start listening at 1:40.
https://youtu.be/JwzKDgBjqlU?si=L4meSRVEh4_-uFJE .
The publishers call BS? Can they point to articles in Politico concerning the reality of the laptop and its (negative) implications for Biden’s presidential run? Probably not. If the claims are BS, why don’t these stories exist?
This is only new news to people who weren’t paying attention. Just like they hid the pedophile’s dementia for the entire 2020 campaign and then four years. They did everything they could to get their pedophile into that office.
I fail to see in any of the quoted Politico disclaimers that these reporters were NOT told to quash the laptop story.
All we saw was corporate babble… I think the “bullshit” claim was misapplied.
You don’t get a pat on the head for acknowledging you assisted the media in getting Biden elected and kept your silence about his obvious problems for four years. There was a time to speak out and that time is when it’s relevant, not when it’s safe.
What a juicy story about a criminal family taht is about to take over the Executive branch of the federal government … if only some reporter had this story …