Politico - Biden story hidden not just by media, but by Federal prosecutors

Hunter Biden’s prosecutor rejected moves that would have revealed probe earlier

Last summer, federal officials in Delaware investigating Hunter Biden faced a dilemma. The probe had reached a point where prosecutors could have sought search warrants and issued a flurry of grand jury subpoenas. Some officials involved in the case wanted to do just that. Others urged caution. They advised Delaware’s U.S. Attorney, David Weiss, to avoid taking any actions that could alert the public to the existence of the case in the middle of a presidential election.

“To his credit, he listened,” said a person involved in the discussions, reported here for the first time. Weiss decided to wait, averting the possibility that the investigation would become a months-long campaign issue. Since taking office, President Joe Biden has left Weiss — a Republican appointed by Donald Trump on the recommendation of Delaware’s two Democratic senators — in place. That puts him in one of the most sensitive positions in the Justice Department, deciding how to proceed with an investigation of the president’s son that has proven politically fraught on several fronts.

Under normal circumstances I might not be that critical of keeping an investigation of a Presidential Candidate's family member out of the spotlight. But in this case it was the Democrats, the Media, and even Biden himself who made this an issue. in the first place 

We have to go back to what should have been a routine private conversations between the President of the United States and the newly election leader of Ukraine. One of the things brought up was the known allegations that the former Obama administration (and Joe Biden himself) had threatened to withhold aid unless they fired a high level prosecutor (who was overseeing an investigation of Hunter Biden). 

This, as we now remember, was quite literally turned into an excuse to impeach Trump.  In ultimately play of projection, Democrats accused the President of doing what we now know that the Obama administration did do. They impeached him for threatening to withhold aide unless the Ukrainian president agreed to his demands. The difference of course, was that there was never any threat from Trump, there was no aide withheld, and ultimately we know the  denials from the Bidens and the Democrats regarding Hunter were dishonest.

The impeachment ultimately was seen as punishment for Trump pushing some conspiracy that Hunter Biden was committing crimes in order to undermine the infant presidential campaign of Joe Biden. Make no mistake, the idea that Hunter Biden was innocent and being framed by the Trump administration was the main media driver of the legitimacy of the impeachment. 

Had it been known that Biden was actually under investigation when the prosecutor was fired, that the investigation stalled afterward, and that Hunter Biden was indeed selling influence while being paid $600K a year to sit on a foreign board, then I doubt that the impeachment of Trump would have been supported by much of anyone.

So this particular investigation and story would have seriously undermined the impeachment of the President and would have exposed the Biden denials that the media was happy to take at complete face value. By withholding the story, they were not keeping anything out of the news, but rather they were allowing the "fake news cycle" to remain in place during the campaign.

The prosecutors had a choice between allowing the lie or telling the truth. We know which way they decided and we have a pretty good idea as to why.