A top Twitter lawyer who supported censoring the bombshell story about the incriminating contents of Hunter Biden’s discarded laptop computer in the weeks before the presidential election also helped to set in motion the FBI’s investigation into now-debunked allegations that President Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election.
James Baker, who served as Twitter’s deputy general counsel and vice president beginning in June 2020, spent four years prior to that serving as the top lawyer for the FBI. It was in that post in 2016 that he linked up his friend, lawyer and Democratic operative Michael Sussmann, with top FBI investigators and Mr.