Rex Murphy: Twitter should be made to answer for its despicable behaviour in suppressing Biden story

It is known that Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that Hunter Biden was involved with, was at the time facing a criminal investigation. According to the New York Post, what the emails from the recovered laptop indicate is that Hunter Biden had introduced a top Burisma executive to his father less than a year before the then vice-president influenced the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor.

The emails raise unavoidable questions about political influence

Of Joe Biden’s involvement in the chief prosecutor’s firing there is no dispute. Biden cheerfully, eerily to my mind, boasted of it on tape, in a talk to the Council on Foreign Relations. It is readily available on YouTube.

If you would like just the flamboyant triumphant nub of Biden’s brag here it is:

“I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.

“Well, son of a bitch. (Laughter.) He got fired.”

U.S. President Donald Trump lashes out at reporters as he responds to a question about Hunter Biden, son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, after arriving in Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 19, 2020. Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters

There is ordinary cockiness, and there is Joe Biden cockiness.

Twitter and Facebook are throwing out poorly manufactured excuses for their behaviour over the Post story. The plain and unadorned fact is these two Silicon Valley monopolists were weighting the election. They were suppressing news to the advantage of the Democratic candidate. They had no business doing this. Jack Dorsey of Twitter is not some Solon guarding the public ear.