Ratcliffe: No 'coincidence' Jim Baker got top Twitter job after pushing Russian collusion narrative
Ratcliffe says Baker 'worked to the favor' of Dems and 'to the detriment of Republicans, conservatives and Donald Trump'
December 12, 2022 11:22am EST
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said Sunday that it’s no "coincidence" Jim Baker got a top a job at Twitter after pushing the Russian collusion narrative during his time at the FBI.
Ratcliffe, who served under the Trump administration, told "Sunday Morning Futures" anchor Maria Bartiromo that Baker, who was recently fired by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk for "suppression" of information, has a long history of anti-Trump, pro-Democratic bias at the FBI, and that he doesn’t believe it’s a coincidence that he wound up as Twitter’s deputy general counsel.
"I don't think that's a coincidence at all," Ratcliffe said. "Jim Baker is the person who was involved in writing an exoneration memo for Hillary Clinton, having classified information on her server before the FBI ever interviewed her. He's the person who hand-carried information from Hillary Clinton's campaign lawyer, Michael Sussmann, into the FBI, false information about a relationship between the Trump campaign and the Russian Alfa Bank. It continued on with him trying to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Donald Trump after Donald Trump fired Jim Comey. He was involved in the leak investigation involving Jim Comey that was the subject of the FBI inspector general. It continues."
"In each of these cases, Maria, Jim Baker was working and taking actions that worked to the favor of Hillary Clinton or Democrats or to the left and universally working to the detriment of Republicans, conservatives and Donald Trump," he continued. "And that was all before he got to Twitter and got involved with suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story."
Ratcliffe questioned whether Baker was sharing information with Twitter when he was still at the FBI.
"I don't think that Twitter just happened to, you know, find his resume on Monster.com," he said. "And I think what one of the things that needs to be determined is what was his relationship with Twitter before he got to Twitter and was he sharing information as the FBI general counsel, you know, to the benefit of one political party, to the detriment of another that then continued when he got to Twitter."
Musk fired Baker last week due to concerns over his "possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue," and it was later reported that Baker had a hand in vetting, without Musk’s knowledge, the first installment of the "Twitter Files," which detailed the company’s suppression of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 presidential election.…
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