Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge has blown the whistle to reveal that CBS executives actively blocked coverage of the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” scandal, despite the story being ready to publish well before the 2022 midterms.
Herridge, a longtime national security and investigative reporter who previously served as Fox News’s chief intelligence correspondent, joined CBS in 2019 as a senior investigative correspondent.
She was fired in 2024 after probing the Hunter Biden laptop case.
The backstory of the infamous laptop dates back to April 2019.
At the time, Hunter Bide, reportedly intoxicated, arrived at the Delaware computer repair shop run by John Paul Mac Isaac with three damaged MacBook Pro laptops.
One device was destroyed beyond repair and returned to Hunter.
A second laptop required a keyboard that Mac Isaac loaned to him, a keyboard that was never returned.
The third laptop Hunter left behind for repair.
Hunter Biden never came back to retrieve it.
After repeated unsuccessful attempts to contact him, Mac Isaac lawfully took ownership of the abandoned device under his shop’s policy.
In October 2020, The New York Post published emails from the laptop.
The “October surprise” revealed evidence that Hunter Biden conducted foreign business dealings and acted as a financial conduit for Joe Biden as part of an international influence-peddling operation.
Herridge says CBS executives delayed reporting the story, despite the fact that her investigation was complete ahead of the midterms.
“When we did the story, we did it after the [2022] midterms,” Herridge said.
“I argued against that because it was ready before the midterms, and my training is that you should always do the story when it’s ready to go.
“You should not be dictated by the political cycle.”
According to Herridge, CBS finally aired the laptop story two years after the scandal was already public.
However, executives still moved to shut down further coverage, including a separate story involving Joe Biden.
Herridge says executives and producers even overrode CBS CEO George Cheeks when it came to blocking follow-up reporting.
WATCH:
The revelations add to mounting concerns about corporate media gatekeeping.
It also further exposes the role major broadcast networks played in suppressing a story that critics argue carried major political consequences.
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