Elon Musk has fired Twitter’s general counsel James Baker for his alleged role in the suppression of The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop expose.
“In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today,” Musk wrote on Twitter Tuesday.
Musk added that he questioned Baker before his firing about the events surrounding the laptop suppression scandal and that his explanation was “unconvincing.”
Baker was previously general counsel for the FBI under former Director James Comey and was a key figure in the Bureau’s investigation into false claims of collusion between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Baker’s exit from the social media giant comes after independent journalist Matt Taibbi revealed internal documents showing Baker and other top Twitter execs deliberating over what to do about The Post’s October 2020 story on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and his alleged influence peddling schemes.
The “Twitter Files,” as Taibbi called the exposé, included an exchange between Baker and Twitter’s former Vice President of Global Communications Brandon Borrman about the decision to censor the The Post’s reporting.
Borrman asks, referring to Twitter’s “hacked materials” policy, “Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?” To which Baker responds, “caution is warranted,” suggesting The Post’s story should be censored.
On Tuesday, Taibbi further reported that Baker was discovered “vetting” the “Twitter Files” before their release, and the journalist said that Baker’s secret involvement was delaying the release of another batch of internal documents.
“The news that Baker was reviewing the ‘Twitter files’ surprised everyone involved, to say the least. New Twitter chief Elon Musk acted quickly to ‘exit’ Baker Tuesday,” Taibbi wrote on Twitter.
Taibbi said that Musk was not aware of Baker’s involvement in reviewing the files.
