In Story On Suppressed October Surprises, NYT Once Again Ignores Hunter Biden Laptop

The New York Times, in an article about the indictment of former President Donald Trump, ignored the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, demonstrating how the press employs Stalinist tactics from “1984.” The Times’ political correspondent, apparently biased towards the left, revived “October surprise” myths about Republicans stealing elections in 2016, 1980, and even 1968. At the same time, it ignored efforts from Democrats to crookedly distort the results of the 2020 election. The article claims that hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels deserves prosecution as it would have forestalled an “October surprise” that might have stopped Trump from defeating Hillary Clinton.

The article fails to mention “Hunter Biden” when listing examples of suppressed October surprise stories that might have changed past elections. The notion that a politician covering up an affair is a campaign contribution is a reach under any circumstance but especially when concerning a prosecutor of one political party seeking to jail both an ex-president and the leading presidential candidate of a rival political party. But leaving aside the banana republic aspect of the efforts to prosecute Trump, the argument that the public knowing about Stormy Daniels would have changed the 2016 election makes no sense.

Trump survived the “Access Hollywood” tape and won the presidency. So arguing that a story about a consensual extramarital affair that might have lacked incriminating videos would have harmed Trump more than his boasts to Billy Bush is ludicrous. Weisman, the writer of the article, didn’t even mention the actual October surprise of 2016, which illustrates the dishonesty of the article.

The article claims that Republicans suppressed October surprise stories, and that the example of this is the long-debunked myths that Republicans colluded with Iran to prevent the release of Americans taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 prior to the 1980 election. It should resonate with a later generation that was asked to believe an equally false conspiracy theory about Trump and Russia. Yet it’s not clear how any of this would have helped Vice President Hubert Humphrey defeat Richard Nixon.

However, any piece about suppressed October surprises would have to start with the one documented incident of such an occurrence: the silencing of the Hunter Biden laptop story by both the corporate media and their Big Tech allies. Though years later, they admitted that the laptop with the incriminating evidence about Biden family corruption was real, and the Times and other legacy outlets had refused to cover the story except to spread the Democrats’ lies about it being “Russian disinformation.”

The Hunter Biden laptop scandal may have changed the outcome of the 2020 election, along with other aspects of the campaign such as changes in election laws and the “shadow campaign” by social media companies, big business, and labor colluding to elect Biden. Unfortunately, readers who get their news from non-conservative sources or the New York Times would likely never know about it due to the publication’s political bias.