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Trump campaign actually did call Elon Musk to get Twitter to block the NY Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop four years ago

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There is a widely believed but totally false claim by Trumpists that the “ Biden administration” told Twitter to “censor” the NY Post article about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop four years ago .

Of course, none of this is actually true. There remains zero evidence that the Trump White House or even the Biden campaign put pressure on social media to block that story.

It is not the case that tech companies censoring a story — specifically, a New York Post story about an email attributed to a laptop owned by Joe Biden’s son Hunter — cost Trump the election. This is a seven -layer cake of lies. Vance is lying about almost everything here to paint a totally false picture and to avoid admitting what he knows is true: that Donald Trump lost the election in 2020 ..

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