And you are a moron. It’s the old tactic of screaming innocuous stuff with enough outrage to make people think something normal is wrong
Joe Biden’s son had a laptop and used it to send e-mails!
Joe Biden’s son once introduced a business friend to his father!
Joe Biden has a home office in his basement!
You are a blathering drooling idiot that doesn’t have the mental capacity to exist in a technological society and you should not be allowed within 6 feet of any device that has a microchip. You’re a freaking troglodyte.
I never doubted that the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden. He as much as admitted it was probably his, before the election. The issue, and the reason it was considered disinformation, was it had been in the hands of agents of a country that we have an adversarial relationship with. It’s a chain of custody issue, and the fact that Guiliani and friends lied about the origin also makes it suspect.
Most of the news outlets that declined to cover the story did so because the information - like a full image of the hard drive- was deliberately withheld from them, they were just given printouts of what Trump’s cohort wanted them to see.
The NY Post and WSJ were offered more information but it was still selectively curated. Michael Bender of the WSJ attended a meeting withTrump’s team and agreed to research and review the story, while making no promises that they would get a story out pre-election.
Then Trump immediately tweeted that the WSJ would be running a bombshell story on the Hunter Biden e-mails. This pissed off Bender. Oh, and once the WSJ reviewed everything they decided there was absolutely nothing that incriminated Joe Biden on it. As did every reputable news organization in the world except the NY Post….ie every reputable new organization in the world. This doesn’t mean that there is a massive worldwide conspiracy to suppress the truth. It means that multiple reputable organization, all who love a good scoop, decided it was a….nothing burger.
It is highly disputed that “the big guy” refers to Joe Biden. In the e-mails related to Burisma, it almost certainly doesn’t. I read the available e-mails in their entirety and unless the 2014 Ukrainian election was the most important event in Joe Biden’s life — it doesn’t. In context, “the big guy” is a Ukrainian national, probably Zlochevsky, the Ukrainian that owned the company Hunter was working for.
The use of the phrase “the big guy” in the Chinese emails is less clear cut, mostly because of the selectiveness of what was released. One reporter who had access to the entire email said that ,in context, “the big guy” was obviously a Chinese national.
I believe that the author of these emails, Tony Bobulinski, has claimed that at least one reference to “the big guy” refers to Joe Biden. But this was an email between two parties that were not Joe Biden, the business deal fell through and there is zero evidence that Joe Biden was aware of the deal. And no one responded to that part of the e-mail.
I once did a project for the in-house construction office in a Trump building in New York. Suppose, while negotiating for them, I had offered to give Mr. Trump a 10% cut if I was awarded the job - and received no response. Do you seriously think I could offer up that email - FROM ME - as evidence that Donald Trump was corrupt? Just how freaking stupid are you? “Trump is corrupt, here’s proof, here’s me trying to bribe him” “What did he say?” “Oh, he never got back to me”. LOL.
I do not believe that Bobulinksi is credible, he obviously had ulterior motives considering that he issued a statement to Breitbart once he realized he wasn’t going to be the star of a pre-election bombshell. When NBC asked for copies of the e-mails and documents that proved his case, he refused to give a thing to them, telling them instead to “watch Tucker Carlson’s show tonight”. This is not the response of a credible witness.
I do believe that Rudy Guiliani consorting with Russian agents in order to influence the election is actionable though.
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And so does us law enforcement and our national security apparatus.
So bottom line is that no one just pretended this story didn’t exist. It’s just that there was nothing there to interest anyone with a connection to reality.
Now, can we talk about Ivanka and Jared consorting with a Chinese spy? The press went way too easy on the Trumps, especially with regards to national security mesdires.