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Fired CBS reporter reveals how network killed Hunter Biden laptop story: ‘I felt sick’

CBS News went to great lengths to squash correspondent Catherine Herridge’s reporting about the Hunter Biden laptop just weeks before the 2020 election, the award-winning investigative journalist claimed.

In her bombshell allegation, Herridge revealed she brought evidence to CBS News executive Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews and “CBS Evening News” anchor Norah O’Donnell in early October 2020 that the laptop contained material about “a million dollar retainer from a Chinese energy firm,” along with business texts and emails from the son of Democratic challenger Joe Biden.

But later that month, Herridge wrote that she was shocked to see “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl say the laptop “couldn’t be verified” during a tense interview with then-President Donald Trump.

“As I watched the broadcast, I felt sick,” Herridge, who was controversially fired by the Tiffany Network in February, wrote Sunday night in her recently launched newsletter.

“I knew the laptop records could be vetted and confirmed.”

She added that she was surprised that “60 Minutes” — which came under fire last month for allegedly editing comments made by Vice President Kamala Harris to avoid a “word salad” answer about the Middle East conflict — had not been working with the news division to confirm her reporting.

There was such a “disconnect” between the two entities, she said.

…. The Post was the only mainstream publication to report at the time that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden — leading to a ban of the story by social media giants Facebook and Twitter.

It took an additional two years for CBS to broadcast a forensic review of the Hunter Biden laptop data. By that time, Ciprian-Matthews had been elevated to the role of CBS News president.

Herridge said she continued to advocate for her report on the laptop, which “determined that both the data belonged to Hunter Biden and it had not been tampered with.”

“Our report was broadcast in November 2022, after the midterm elections,” Herridge said.

Oh for the days when CBS was a trusted source of real news.