Former Politico Reporters Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri Reveal Their Previous Employer Blocked Negative Stories About Joe Biden, Hunter Biden Laptop

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PALMERI: “Yeah. I mean, I had a hard time. You know, I wrote some pretty serious reporting on Hunter Biden, which actually ended up getting him prosecuted. The story on the gun.”
CAPUTO: “Yeah. And I mean --”
PALMERI: “I wrote that.”
CAPUTO: “-- you consulted with me because you did the original report --”
PALMERI: “Yeah.”
CAPUTO: “-- on the gun.”
PALMERI: “Yeah.”
CAPUTO: “And you came to me like, how do I write about this? I'm like, honestly, I don't know.”
PALMERI: “Yeah, because it was hard to get it done.”
CAPUTO: “Because it like 4 years ago. You figured it out.”
PALMERI: “I spent three -- three months on it. I went to the laptop shop, and I did all of the reporting in Delaware, and I did all of that. But yeah, it had to be 100 percent nailed down. I had everything, you know, the police reports, everything. Like, you know, I'm a solid reporter, but I do wonder if -- could have -- if it would have been published a little quicker, those different types of stories.”
CAPUTO: “Well, since we're spilling tea about --”
PALMERI: “Yeah.”
CAPUTO: “-- a former employer, I still have a copy of the story on my internal hard drive. In 2019, a rival presidential Democratic campaign of Joe Biden's gave to me the tax lien, the oppo research, the tax lien on Hunter Biden for the period of time that he worked at Burisma. And I wrote what would have been a classic story saying, you know, the former vice president's son was slapped with a big tax lien for the period of time that he worked for this controversial Ukrainian oil concern or natural gas concern, which is haunting his father on a campaign trail. That story was killed by the editors.”
PALMERI: “Wow!”