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President Donald Trump called out a letter by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that admitted Hunter Biden’s laptop story was suppressed ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Trump shared his response in two Truth Social posts early Tuesday.
“Zuckerberg admits that the White House pushed to SUPPRESS HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY (& much more!). IN OTHER WORDS, THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED. FoxNews, New York Post, Rep. Laurel Lee, House Judiciary Committee,” he wrote.
In a second post, Trump added an image from The New York Post story about the topic.
“This is what everyone’s been waiting for — THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED!” he said.
The Tuesday Post article revealed that in Zuckerberg’s letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), he wrote that “senior Biden administration officials, including the White House, repeatedly pressured” Meta (the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) to “censor” content related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he wrote. “I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”
Zuckerberg also addressed concerns about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
“That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply,” he wrote.
“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” he added.
Zuckerberg’s letter also noted that Meta’s policies have been updated to avoid similar issues in the future.
The Facebook founder has also been criticized over “Zuckerbucks,” his past effort to spend over $400 million to help support local elections. The action was designed to be non-partisan but was highly criticized by Republicans as an effort to influence the 2020 election.
“My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another — or to even appear to be playing a role. So I don’t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle,” he wrote, according to the letter.
