West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner, a Republican, is calling on federal agencies to apologize for their role in suppressing information that could have changed the 2020 election outcome. He warned the government might do similar things again.
“I want the federal government — one of these agencies, or all these agencies — to admit that there was a problem, and that would be the first step toward restoring confidence in both our federal government and in our elections,” Warner told The Federalist. “If you don’t acknowledge the problem, then it’s likely to happen again.”
Hiding Hunter’s Laptop
Warner said the FBI, CIA, and the Department of Homeland Security’s CISA program — the federal government’s hub for online censorship — need to acknowledge their role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election. He said if they refuse to answer for this, they will likely take similar actions before November.
The New York Post first reported the contents of President Joe Biden’s son’s laptop in October 2020. Those contents included evidence of foreign business deals involving the president, records of Hunter’s drug use, and explicit sexual material. But the FBI worked to censor the story on Facebook and Twitter as Russian “misinformation,” even though the agency (along with the Department of Justice) later admitted it knew the information was true. As of 2022, 79 percent of Americans thought the story would have changed the outcome of the election.
Warner said he is concerned the federal
