Fox News political analyst Juan Williams attempted to dismiss the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story with a bald-faced lie predicated on semantics, arguing, “nobody said it wasn’t true.”
Williams joined the panel of “Fox News Sunday” where, at the end of the program, fill-in host Trace Gallagher introduced a “quick back-and-forth” on the admission by the New York Times that the 2020 story from the New York Post was legitimate. It covered how Biden’s laptop, containing damning evidence of connections that would pose conflicts of interest if his father Joe Biden won the election, was in the possession of the FBI.
Engaging Howard Kurtz in the discussion, Gallagher reminded that no apologies or retractions have followed the validation.
“No,” Williams said to Gallagher’s points, “but I think there’s a larger context here, which is that what was this about? What does it prove?”
On Fox News Sunday, Juan Williams LIES on Hunter Biden laptop reaction: 'Nobody said it wasn't true' — oh, they only called it a "hoax," a "smear campaign," and "Russian disinformation," which somehow isn't "untrue"…https://t.co/m2IVTEzM1O pic.twitter.com/n2AVoZFHuZ
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 20, 2022
“Nobody said it wasn’t true,” Williams asserted. “That – what was said was that you can’t authenticate it. And then you had certain publications that said, we have authenticated it.”
Gallagher postured against Williams and said, “The analysts said it wasn’t true. The analysts, the intel analysts said they didn’t – couldn’t prove it. It sure looked like Russian disinformation.”
“Right, couldn’t prove it was the key point for organizations,” Williams retorted, as though he had won his point.
It was then that Kurtz entered the discussion hard against those assertions, saying, “Juan, it is an absolute embarrassment that the way the media downplayed or ignored or mocked or minimized this story, that The New York Times now says is under active federal investigation for possible tax violations or lobbying violations by the president’s son.”
“And they’re still not covering it. None of the other networks have touched this story,” Kurtz added. He didn’t speculate on what this would mean for Hunter Biden or for President Joe Biden, instead he continued to address how it was reported in 2020.
“But when you look back at the way Facebook – Twitter, for example, said, well, you can’t even share this information then from the New York Post,” he said.
Williams introduced a self-defeating argument about the proximity to the election, stating “this was in the middle of a heated political campaign intended to damage one candidate in the aftermath of Russian disinformation. I think we were all properly cautious.”
Fifty-one top intelligence experts demonstrated that caution was not their concern in 2020 when they signed a public letter claiming the laptop story was Russian disinformation. That claim from the likes of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Director of the CIA John Brennan allowed Biden cover to accuse anyone who brought up the subject of running a smear campaign and labeling it a hoax.
Fox News has aired a supercut of those statements made in the waning weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign cycle that Williams is pretending never happened.
On "Fox News at Night" (Thu.), they played clips of Joe Biden claiming the Hunter Biden stories were a "smear campaign" and a "hoax," so it's pretty odd when Juan Williams claimed today on @FoxNewsSunday "nobody said it wasn't true." pic.twitter.com/uiceAqcwwx
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) March 20, 2022
Kurtz concluded plainly, “It was censorship.”
Williams’s attempt at revisionist history prompted one Twitter user to summarize the takeaways from the exchange on the Fox News panel rather succinctly:
I don’t always agree with Howie Kurtz, but he’s always fair and balanced, and 100% correct here.
Juan Williams is a partisan hack. Period.— 𝒞𝑜𝓃𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓉𝓊𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉 (@MSMCali) March 20, 2022
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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