British actor and podcaster Russell Brand said Monday that the Democratic Party, mainstream media and Big Tech “conspired” to censor negative news about President Biden and his son Hunter in order to ensure the president’s electoral victory in November.
On his YouTube channel, Mr. Brand interviewed journalist Glenn Greenwald, who famously quit the media outlet he co-founded, The Intercept, out of protest last year after he said editors blocked him from reporting on allegations concerning the Biden family’s conduct with China and Ukraine.
“It was the moral duty of everybody, including journalists, to refrain from anything that might hurt Biden, because that would elect Trump,” Mr. Greenwald said Monday.
Mr. Brand told Mr. Greenwald that while he doesn’t consider himself a conservative or supporter of former President Donald Trump, he recognized that the Democratic Party holds unmatched influence over the control of information and that it poses a problem for liberals because it “implicates the ‘goodies’ in the cultural conflict.”
“We’re talking about sleaze, corruption, financial misdemeanors, and relationships between corporations, big business, and politicians, which, let’s face it, unless you’re bloody stupid, you know that’s going on all the time,” Mr. Brand said, Mediaite reported. “For me, revelations that there are financial connections between energy companies in the Ukraine, energy companies in China, and the Biden family are troubling. … That should be public knowledge. And it’s even more troubling that Twitter, and Facebook and the media at large deliberately kept it out of the news because they didn’t want it to influence the election.
“What is democracy then?” he asked. “It suggests to me that democracy is, ‘We want you to vote for this person. We don’t want you to vote for that person.’ As I’ve said, Donald Trump, you know, I don’t think Donald Trump’s the answer, but I’m sad to realize that I can no longer even claim to believe that Joe Biden or the Democratic Party might be the answer. Because look at how they behave and look at their relationships between media, social media, and that party. They conspired to keep information away from you because it was not convenient to their agenda.”
“The idea that information is being controlled, that’s not democracy, that’s not freedom, that’s manipulation of elections,” he added. “Our depictions of these places like communist Russia or the Soviet Union — these draconian malevolent places where you’re not free. It was true, but it is also true here. The same thing is happening, but you get to have a milkshake at the end of the day. ‘Sure we do oppress you. Yeah, we control the information. But look at this lovely old president and enjoy your milkshake, you idiot.’”
The younger Biden faced scrutiny during the 2020 presidential campaign over his business dealings in Ukraine and China while his father was still vice president under former President Barack Obama. An abandoned laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter included emails detailing those business dealings, the New York Post first reported in October.
Major media outlets dismissed the story as Russian disinformation and social media platforms Twitter and Facebook blocked users from sharing it.
Hunter Biden, a recovering addict, said last month he doesn’t remember anything about the laptop but that it’s a “red herring” being used against his family.
