Trump 2020 Twitter account 'LOCKED' over Biden video after tech giant 'censored' Hunter Biden 'crack & Ukraine' story

THE Trump campaign was suspended from Twitter on Thursday for hitting out at Joe Biden with an ad about his son’s murky business dealings.

Late on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump tweeted a video about the New York Post story published this week about a “smoking gun email” Hunter Biden received from Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to Ukrainian gas company Burisma's board.

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The nearly minute-long clip posted online shows Biden denying he knew about his son’s connection to the company while he was serving as the US vice president.

“I don’t know what he was doing, I know he was on the board, I found out he was on the board after he was on the board – and that was it,” Biden is heard saying.

The ad is a mash-up of clips of Biden saying in interviews that he didn’t know what Hunter Biden was doing, saying he doesn’t discuss business with his children.

“Joe Biden is a Liar Who Has Been Ripping Off Our Country for Years,” the video from Trump concludes.

On Thursday, the @TeamTrump Twitter handle was suspended "violating rules against posting private information."

It appeared the 2020 campaign account was only briefly locked.

Critics of Biden have often tried to attack and question the former VP’s relationship with Ukraine.

Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma in 2014, around the time Biden was helping conduct the Obama administration's foreign policy with Ukraine.

Trump and his supporters have alleged that Biden pushed for the firing of Ukraine's top prosecutor to protect his son and Burisma from any investigation.

Biden did push for the prosecutor's firing – but that's because he was reflecting the official position of not only the Obama administration, but many Western countries and because the prosecutor was seen as “soft on corruption.”

Senate Republicans said in a recent report that the appointment may have posed a conflict of interest, but they did not present evidence that the hiring influenced US policies.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that US intelligence officials suspected that hacked and forged Burisma emails would be released as an "October Surprise" targeting Biden before Election Day.

The story from the Post on Wednesday claims that Hunter introduced Biden to Pozharskyi, a top executive at the energy firm, less than a year before Biden pushed for Ukraine to fire the prosecutor. 

Pozharskyi allegedly said in an email to Hunter in April 2015: “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”

The Biden campaign said they looked over Biden's schedules from the time "and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.”

"Investigations by the press, during impeachment, and even by two Republican-led Senate committees whose work was decried as 'not legitimate' and political by a GOP colleague have all reached the same conclusion: that Joe Biden carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing. Trump administration officials have attested to these facts under oath,” spokesperson Andrew Bates said.

The Post reported that an email from May 2014 shows Pozharskyi asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the Ukrainian company’s behalf. 

The emails were reportedly discovered in a laptop Hunter dropped off at a local repair shop in Delaware in April 2019.

The FBI seized the laptop in December after the shop owner, John Paul MacIsaac, 44, alerted them to the laptop.

Biden's son left the damaged Apple laptop at the shop in April 2019 – but MacIsaac claimed Hunter never returned, or paid the $85 bill.

MacIsaac said he also made a copy of the laptop’s hard drive and gave it to Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer. 

Trump’s former campaign manager, Steve Bannon, who was recently arrested for allegedly stealing fundraised money from Trump supporters to build a wall along the border with Mexico, told the Post about the hard drive copy.

Giuliani then gave a copy of the hard drive to the Post.

MacIsaac, who said he tried contacting the owner of the laptop to come get it, said he was afraid he would be murdered as "a guy who had something he wanted out of this shop."

He supposedly discovered a 12-minute video of Hunter engaging in a sex act with an unidentified woman and allegedly smoking crack on the device, as well as explicit pictures.

MacIsaac claimed he was "not political" although his Facebook posts in 2016 indicated that he voted for Trump.

After the story was reported, it was being censored by Facebook and Twitter because they said they didn’t want to allow potential false information to spread on their platforms.

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