The FBI had had the Hunter Biden laptop and knew its contents were not planted by foreign agents. They knew Giuliani was about to go public with it in October.

The FBI had had the Hunter Biden laptop and knew its contents were not planted by foreign agents. They knew Giuliani was about to go public with it in October. But what they told Twitter and Facebook was that it was foreign disinformation and/or hacked information, knowing these assertions were false. That is not “protecting Democracy from foreign interference”, it’s literally the opposite, a government agency convincing private companies to suppress information they knew to be true, leading to a less informed electorate. If the FBI had done exactly the same thing but it was Trump’s drug addict son’s laptop, it’s likely that all the “nothing to see here” people here would have been screaming for FBI heads to roll (figuratively) for the last two years. The bottom line is that our bureaucracies are not supposed to act in a partisan fashion, and they did.