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Biden Officials Claimed, Without Evidence, Ukraine Tapes Alluded To By Trump Were ‘Disinformation’

The tapes supported Donald Trump's assertion that Biden pressured Ukraine to fire its prosecutor.

Luke Rosiak
Biden Officials Claimed, Without Evidence, Ukraine Tapes Alluded To By Trump Were ‘Disinformation’
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A longtime State Department employee who helped Joe Biden dismiss as “disinformation” damning tapes of the then-vice president even though he had good reason to believe the the recordings were the real deal landed a plum job in Joe Biden‘s presidential administration.

Michael Carpenter was standing by the future president’s side in 2018 as Biden recounted a similar exchange at a public event. But like Nina Jankowicz, the Democratic operative Biden named to the now-scuttled “Disinformation Governance Board,” Carpenter was there when Biden needed him to help make the embarrassing story go away.

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