Even Right-Wingers Think Elon Musk's Hunter Biden Reveal Is A Nothingburger

Elon Musk s tease concerning a massive reveal about Hunter Biden , his infamous laptop and Twitter suppression flopped big time Friday, even with right-wingers who were supposed to swoon over the information.

So far Im deeply underwhelmed, tweeted right-wing radio host Seb Gorka, who served in the Trump administration. We know the Dems in DC collude with the Dems in Palo Alto. Big Whop [whoop], he added.

Gorka said he was hoping for a string of felonies to be bared. But that didnt happen, he noted, after journalist Matt Taibbi released a lengthy Twitter thread detailing Musks touted findings.

So far Im deeply underwhelmed.

We know the Dems in DC collude with the Dems in Palo Alto.

Big Whop.

Need a paper trail of felonies.

Elon better have that.

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So far Im deeply underwhelmed.

We know the Dems in DC collude with the Dems in Palo Alto.

Big Whop.

Need a paper trail of felonies.

Elon better have that.
Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) December 3, 2022

One prominent right-winger blown away by the information was Donald Trump , who found the Twitter files leak so damning that he called for terminating articles of the Constitution so that he could be reinstated as president or for an election redo.

But nearly everyone else seemed unimpressed.

Twitter files [are] underwhelming so far, right-wing Free Beacon reporter Joe Simonson tweeted . Twitter was staffed by Democrats who acted like Democrats, he said.

Musk hyped the release Friday by Taibbi of exchanges among Twitter executives which he now has access to revealing a debate about how to handle tweets concerning a discovered laptop with information about business activities belonging to Joe Biden s son. Twitter eventually restricted comments in part because of fears the politically charged issue would involve tweets rife with disinformation, the communications reveal.

Critics have blasted the move as a violation of the First Amendment, which is not a factor in business decisions.

Gorka had to school his own Twitter followers about constitutional issues: Err no , its not the DNC asking a private company to censor ... has nothing to do with the First Amendment.

A columnist on the right-wing network Bulwark mocked those mistakenly upset about denied First Amendment rights.

No you do not have a constitutional right to post Hunter Bidens dick pick on Twitter, read the headline of a story by Tim Miller. Some Twitter posts about Hunter Biden that Joe Bidens campaign asked to remove reportedly linked to shots of him in the buff.

The Taibbi information mostly regurgitates what was already known, Miller noted: That Twitter throttled the New York Posts initial story about Hunters laptop based on what we now know was an incorrect assessment of its source. It also underscored business as usual when political campaigns and government work with social media companies in this case Twitter to flag troubling content, he said.

Hunter Biden has been repeatedly blistered by Republicans for serving on the board of energy company Burisma in Ukraine while his father was vice president and working to clean up corruption in the nation.

There was nothing illegal in such a job, though some consider it to be unethical to profit from a relatives position of power in the federal government.

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