'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host calls out Big Tech monopolies for censoring New York Post's report
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good evening and welcome to
Tucker Carlson tonight.
Most of us never imagined it
could happen in this country and
today did happen.
A major american newspaper
published a story apparently an
entirely accurate story about a
presidential candidate,
the tech monopolies that control
american media feared. The story
might hurt that candidate, whom
they favor
so three weeks before a national
election, they shut the whole
thing down.
They prevented the public from
reading the news
they didnt apologize for doing
this,
they didnt bother to make up a
reasonable sounding
justification for it.
They just did it exactly as the
chinese government does.
These are monopolies,
they have all the power
you have none,
they dont have to care what you
think and they dont.
This was mass censorship on a
scale that America has never
experienced in two hundred and forty five years,
its a threat to all of us.
Democracies only function when
theres a freak exchange of
information, free exchange of
information.
This is a dark moment.
We know longer have that
near Post published a series of
emails that described Hunter
Bidens lucrative relationship
with a ukrainian energy and he
called Teresa and described how
his father, the vice president
of the United States, intervened
to help his son peddle influence
weve known the outline of the
story for quite some time, but
these emails add damning details,
details
no one appears to dispute. They
are real, not even the Joe Biden
campaign.
You are hearing whispers, its
all part of a russian
disinformation campaign.
If this is a hoax, its the most
complex, sophisticated hoax ever
perpetrated
it doesnt seem possible.
There are too many
too much detail.
Emails came from a laptop, an
apple laptop dropped off at her
Delaware Computer Repair shop
and abandoned there.
After a certain number of days,
with no payment, the shop owner
took legal possession of the
laptop
he looked inside.
There were tens of thousands of
emails, including changes with
representatives of foreign
companies and foreign
governments.
The laptop apparently belonged
to Hunter Biden.
The shop owner was stunned by
this by the appearance of
corruption, and he was afraid for
his family.
So late last year he gave the
laptop to the FBI
kept a copy of the hard drive
for himself,
but he never heard back from the
FBI.
By May, he was anxiously made
overtures to Senator MIKE Lees
Office and at least one
conservative nonprofit
he emailed their websites, but
nobody responded.
Finally, the man contacted
Rudy Giulianis office.
Today story is the result of
that
the tech monopolies instantly
crushed. At the moment it
appeared
an executive at Facebook called
Andy Stone. Former democratic
staffer announced his company
would censor the New York Post
story,
as he put it. Facebook would be
reducing its distribution on
our platform
twitter quickly, followed to by
locking the New York Posts
Entire twitter account.
One of the biggest newspapers in
the world banned from Twitter
Twitter then prevented if users
from sharing the New York Post
story, both privately and
publicly.
Those who try to share and got
this message, your tweet
couldnt be sent because this
link has been identified by
twitter or aerie are partners
that these potentially harmful
in a separate exclamation
twitter wrote. We dont permit
the use of our services to
distribute contact obtained
through hacking that contains
private information, will put
people in physical harm or
danger or contains trade
secrets.
Yes, the same twitter that just
promoted a New York Times
story about the president.
Private tax returns obviously
obtained illegally that
twitter,
who, by the way, was hacked here.
No one was hacked
twitter, never addressed it.
As for quote trade secrets,
there were none.
We already knew that Hunter
Biden was trading on his
fathers office to make fifty grand
a month from the Ukrainians.
In October he admitted it.
You didnt have any extensive
knowledge about natural gas or
Ukraine itself, though
no,
but I think I had as much
knowledge as anybody else that
was on the board
in the list that you gave me
of the reasons why youre on the
board, you did not list the fact
that you are the son of the
vice president.
Of course.
What role do you think that
played,
I think, its impossible for
me to be on any of the boards? I
just mentioned without saying
that I am the son of the
vice president of the
United States.
Oh thanks for
acknowledging reality.
So we knew the outlines,
but we didnt know until today
was how brazen this was
Hunter Biden didnt simply sell
access to his father, the
vice president, or take cash to
influence american foreign
policy,
no its weirder than that
as he schemed to extract more
money from Burisma Hunter Biden.
Didnt refer to his father as
his father,
he revert to the vice president,
is my guy
Hunter Biden wrote this.
The announcement of my guys.
Upcoming travel should be
characterized as part of our
advice and thinking
Hunter Biden, added that he
needed to be protected
financially and wanted a
long term role with Burisma.
The contract should begin now,
not after the upcoming visit of
my guy.
That should include a retainer
in the range of 25000,
its, not clear. If I got that
retainer, but we know he did get
a high paying job with Burisma,
then in May two thousand and fourteen just weeks
after Hunter Biden joined the
board of that company top
executive. Let him know why he
was being paid. We urgently need
your advice on how you could use
her influence to convey a
message signal, Et Cetera, to
stop what we consider to be
politically motivated actions.
The executive wrote that in an
email
use your influence to convey a
message.
What message?
What is that mean
another email from the same
executive obtained by
the New York Post dated
April, seventeen two thousand and fifteen, explained in
very clear terms what it means.
Dear hunter. Thank you for
inviting me to d dot c and giving
an opportunity to meet your
father. Im spent some time
together
its really an honor and
pleasure.
Oh
thats. What youre not allowed
to read!
You can see why Facebook and
Twitter dont want to allow you
to read it.
If Joe Biden met with Burisma
executives at the request of the
sun, but the prophet of his own
family, it becomes very clear
that Joe Bidens previous
denials were lies.
Just last year, Joe Biden was
telling us he had no idea what
his son was doing it personal.
You are the vice president
running point on Ukraine. The
average Joe hears that says that
sounds fishy
whats your understanding of
what your son was doing for an
extraordinary amount of money.
I dont know what he was
doing.
I know he was on the board
I found out. He was on the board
after he was on the board. Was
it
you had a lot of time?
Isnt it something you want to
get to the bottom of
no, because I trust my son
that doesnt pass the smell
test
when you are vice president
isnt there a higher standard,
what your family is doing, the
need to put out some guardrails
unless there was something
something on its face. That was
wrong,
theres, nothing on its face. That
was wrong,
nothing on its face.
That was wrong.
That was before we sell these
emails.
You remember that back in twenty eighteen,
Joe Biden explain T got these
top prosecutor in Ukraine
fired
that prosecutor. Viktor Shokin
said he was planning on
investigating Burisma when he
was stripped of his job
Heres. How Joe Biden
explained Slash bragged about how he
cant Viktor Shokin
id gotten? The commitment
from portion call that they
would take action and they
didnt
they said,
I said, were not going to give
you the billion dollars.
They said you have no authority,
you have no authority.
The president said,
I said, call him.
I said youre not getting a
billion dollars
im going to be leaving here,
im leaving in six hours.
If the prosecutors not fired
youre, not getting the money.
Well, he got fired.
Why is the
vice president of the
United States, firing prosecutors
in Ukraine
pause and ask yourself that
thats bizarre behavior
doesnt help the United States
in any way?
Why was he doing there?
At the time? Bidens handlers
deny there was anything wrong.
They said that Shokin was
corrupt and somehow the world
was benefiting from shokin,
getting fired,
didnt explain
but of course, Joe Biden didnt
do it first on
he didnt know anything about
Greece. My
he didnt know what Hunter Biden
was up to
no clue.
Then. Last October we showed you
a photograph of John Hunter
Biden, golfing with a board
member of Burisma Hunter
Bidens Business Partner
Biden campaign never claimed
that photograph
media never followed up.
Instead, now as they are rushing
to bury the New York Post
story, CNN rushed to Joe Bidens
defense.
The impeachment inquiry is
centered on president trumps.
Attempts to get political dirt
from Ukraine on Vice President
Biden and his son hunter.
Mr vice president,
President Trump is falsely,
accused your son doing something
wrong while serving on the
company board in Ukraine.
I want to point out. There is no
evidence of wrongdoing by either
one of you.
A few months later,
we got some sense why Anderson
Cooper was so careful in the
interview you just saw
in December a voter, and I will
try to ask Joe Biden about
Burisma and his fitness office.
Joe Biden lost control, called
the man fat and challenged into
a push up contest.
You are a liar thats, not
true.
No one has ever said that
what do push ups together
lets run
lets do whatever you want to do.
Do
you think I set up my son to
work in an oil company? Is that
what you said?
Get your story straight
Heres the deal?
What is the deal actually
thats a question every American?
No matter what your political
views has a right to an answer,
you might be wondering what
Joe Biden thinks
on portal youre not entitled to
that information either
Joe Biden once again called it a
day before noon.
That meant reporters could mask
it with the New York Post
story, not that they wanted to
wed like to.
We are not controlled by
Facebook or Google or twitter.
We can ask any question. We want
and heres the first question
did any money from Burisma or
any other foreign company or
foreign government wind up in
Joe Bidens pockets
or in the account of any thing
he benefits from here. We are not
accusing Joe Biden of a crime.
We are saying its long been
Mistry. How man who took a
government salary for almost fifty
years has lived like a rich man
since the 1970s
have you ever seen Joe Bidens
houses?
Look them up
opulent doesnt begin to
describe the way he lives.
Can you do that?
No, you cant.
How does Joe Biden do that?
No one seems especially
interested in finding out, but we
are,
and we may
there were a lot of emails on
the laptop
tens of thousands of emails.
The New York Post is not the
only news organization that has.
Transcript generated on 2020-10-15.