Common sense and the general public.
The whole thing has more gaping holes (might as well call them plot holes because it reads like a really bad Tom Clancy novel) than Star Wars and Harry Potter combined.
[*]Hunter Biden, for some reason, decides to have 3 laptops repaired a thousand miles from where he lives.
- Hunter Biden was born and raised in Wilmington, DE and owns a home there. He does own a home in Los Angeles, but he spends a lot of time on the east coast.
[*]He then doesn't return to the the laptops.
- Hunter Biden is a crack addict, I'm sure he's done dumber shit than this. Like go on a bender drunk and high on crack so a hooker can take a picture of him sleeping with his crackpipe in his mouth...
[*]The repair shop employee has a condition that doesn't allow him to recognize people, but he decides that the laptops belong to Hunter Biden because of stickers from the Beau Foundation.
- He's legally blind, and he didn't decide that, the person who left the laptops identified himself as Hunter Biden. Is he supposed to doubt that?
[*]He then proceeds to search through 'Hunter's laptop' and finds these incriminating e-mails.
[*]He then contacts the FBI, or the FBI contacts him (the repairman has claimed both) and they issue a subpoena to get the laptop.
[*]Before the laptop is taken by the FBI, the repairman makes a copy of the hard drive.
- not sure what the plot hole is here.
[*]After month of no news from the FBI, the repairman decides to make the hard drive reach Rudy Guliani.
[*]Rudy then hands over the hard drive to a Trump supporter that writes for the NYP (lol) and the 'smoking gun' is published.
- who should he have turned it over to? someone at the NYT or one of the major networks that refuse to cover the story? maybe CNN or MSNBC?
The same Rudy Guliani that was also compromised by number 3 Kazakhstan journalist. Very nice!
- selective editing, doesn't sound like it's the smoking gun the tantalizing movie trailer leads one to believe.
- yes, that Director of National Intelligence. Do you think he's the one who did the actual verification? Is it just enough to dismiss it because he runs the agency?
I haven't seen an FBI take on it. Would be happy to read a news source you've read.
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it's in this NYT piece. Your point about Ratcliffe's partisanship is noted, but remember the FBI just spent years and millions of dollars running a sham investigation into Trump trying to connect him to Russia and even they are saying this isn't Russian disinformation.
What I have seen from the FBI is that back in September the FBI warned of
Russia using 'drumbeat of misinformation' to undermine Biden campaign.
- again, both the DNI and the FBI have stated unequivocally, this is not Russian disinformation. Biden's business partner has stated publicly for the record that the emails are authentic (he is on several of them) and that he personally met with Joe Biden to discuss these deals.
Trump denies things daily. Does that make him more trustworthy to you? Perhaps it's so outlandish that it's not worth addressing?
Obama waited forever to release his birth certificate. Why? Because you don't feed the trolls. (Mostly) Everyone knows this.
I'm not relying on Trump's trustworthiness, I'm relying on a great deal of evidence corroborated by the FBI, DNI, first hand witnesses and the fact that the Biden's have not denied the authenticity of the emails or said that the laptops did not belong to Hunter. And who is saying the laptop is part of a Russian disinformation campaign? Adam Schiff and a couple Dem members of congress. Is it possible to be any more partisan and any less credible than Adam Schiff?