Catherine Herridge, a former CBS investigative journalist, revealed that CBS News executives delayed the broadcast of her reports concerning the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop.
Herridge transitioned to independent journalism after CBS terminated her employment in February 2024, amidst a legal dispute over whether she should be compelled to disclose a source, following disagreements with CBS executives. According to the Daily Caller, Herridge expressed in a video posted on X that she had conflicts with executives regarding the timing of her report on the Hunter Biden laptop contents.
"When we did the story, we did it after the (2022) midterms," Herridge stated. "I argued against that because it was ready before the midterms and my training is that you should always do the story when its ready to go. You should not be dictated by the political cycle." She further elaborated, "Once we got the laptop story on the morning news, I felt that there was so much there that we could still do. For example, in the text messages, theres unfortunately, uh, the use of the N word, the liberal use of the N word."
The authenticity of certain contents from the laptop was confirmed by the Daily Caller News Foundation in October 2020, while The Washington Post and The New York Times verified the data's authenticity in March 2022, in articles discussing Department of Justice investigations into Biden. Herridge also detailed the extensive measures she undertook to secure what she termed "the cleanest copy" of the laptop's data.
In June 2024, a Delaware jury found Hunter Biden guilty on three felony gun charges related to his 2018 purchase of a Colt .38-caliber revolver. He later pleaded guilty to federal tax charges shortly before his trial was set to commence in September 2024, but President Joe Biden pardoned him on December 1, 2024.
Herridge encountered civil contempt charges after defying an order from U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, to disclose her sources for a 2017 Fox News story about an individual under investigation for espionage on behalf of the People's Republic of China. She subsequently testified about her legal ordeal and dismissal from CBS before the House Judiciary Committee.
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