by Asheley Oliver at Washington Examiner
A leading attorney in Missouri v. Biden, the closely watched case about censorship practices, charged on Thursday during oral arguments that the FBI “engaged in deception” while working with social media companies in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
John Sauer, special attorney general for the Louisiana Department of Justice, alleged to a three-judge panel for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the FBI’s and the White House’s apparent censorship attempts on several issues were “egregious” but that the FBI also sought to mislead social media companies about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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Sauer’s remarks came in response to one of the judges, Edith Clement, asking him, “Was the activity of the FBI as egregious as the activity of the White House?”
“They’re different, and I believe they’re both very egregious, but the FBI engaged in deception,” Sauer began.
He then explained how the FBI worked behind the scenes to handle the now-infamous New York Post story, published weeks ahead of the 2020 election, implicating then-candidate Joe Biden in his son’s business dealings based on contents from the younger Biden’s now widely authenticated laptop.
The FBI had subpoenaed the laptop from a repair shop in 2019 as part of an investigation into Hunter Biden, and former President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani obtained a copy of it and provided it to the New York Post.
The bureau had been routinely meeting with social media companies in 2020 and warned…
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