Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, and Dr. Anthony Fauci must provide social media firms with any emails they sent on censorship and misleading online content, according to a federal judge in Louisiana.
Republican attorneys general from Louisiana and Missouri, Jeff Landry and Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit in May alleging that President Joe Biden's administration colluded with social media companies to stifle free speech, with particular allegations relating to information about elections and COVID-19.
Treasury Department Accused of Covering up Biden Family
The case was brought by the GOP attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, who claim that the Biden administration used social media as a political tool to censor articles about Hunter Biden's laptop, mail-in voting, and COVID-19 information. Executive privilege was rejected by Doughty, who was appointed by Donald Trump because it only applied to internal administration emails. He decided that emails sent to outside executives were fair game.
According to the judge's 10-page judgment, their correspondences are also clearly very significant to the case. Other senior members of the Health and Human Services Department are also required by the court to turn up any correspondence they may have with social media executives.
After the decision on Tuesday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is running for governor in November, accused the Biden administration of suppressing free expression in a statement. Schmitt and Jeff Landry, the attorney general of Louisiana, released copies of emails earlier this month that they claim to demonstrate how the White House colluded with social media corporations to stifle opposing viewpoints, as per Daily Mail.
James Comer, a Kentucky Republican who serves as the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, alleged on Saturday that the Treasury Department was protecting the Biden family by withholding access to suspicious activity reports on Hunter Biden.
Banks often report suspicious behavior when customers make large cash transfers or cash transactions of more than $5,000 that could indicate financial crimes, but the majority of these transactions are legal. Before the 2020 election, when Joe Biden, Hunter's father, was running a campaign against then-President Donald Trump, the GOP began to focus aggressively on Hunter Biden. The son of Vice President Joe Biden is currently under investigation for suspicions of probable money laundering, as well as suspected transgressions of tax, foreign lobbying, and campaign finance laws.
His business dealings while his father was vice president to then-President Barack Obama are the main subject of the FBI probe. Comer made his statement following the Treasury Department's Friday denial of a Bank Secretary Act (BSA) request to examine Hunter Biden's bank records. The BSA is designed to look into money laundering, terrorism financing, and other illegal financial behavior.
Democrats must join the request because the Treasury Department stated that it will consider official requests from relevant congressional committees. However, Republicans are having trouble securing support for this request because the Democratic Party now holds control of Congress and its committees, according to News Week.
Americans Want To Dig into Hunter Biden's Laptop Story
Nearly two years after The Post originally reported the story, the majority of Americans still think Hunter Biden's infamous laptop from hell is "important" news, according to a poll released on Tuesday. Only 17% of 1,000 US voters surveyed by Rasmussen Reports said the story of the first son's abandoned laptop is not important at all, while 63% and 44%, respectively, think it is extremely important.
The reporting caused Twitter to lock down The Post's account, and Facebook initially banned the reporting as well. Additionally, nearly 50% of respondents (48%) think President Biden might not have won the 2020 election if the mainstream media had properly covered the information on his son's laptop at the time.
A wealth of papers, including emails and texts, found on Hunter's laptop showed how he utilized his family's reputation and political ties to his advantage in his international business operations. Even said, 46% of respondents in the survey of Americans indicated they didn't think more media attention to the laptop would have affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
After Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret after blocking The Post's initial report for October 2020 on the laptop, a poll was taken between August 31 and September 1. In a recent interview with Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg said that Facebook withheld the article in response to an ambiguous FBI caution about potential "Russian propaganda" connected to the 2020 presidential election, New York Post reported.
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