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You brought Russia into it, my man.
And you can’t seriously still believe the whole thing, can you? It was a shit show from the very beginning. Starts off with a blind republican shop owner who even said “I’m not sure it was Hunter Biden”. Then months of absolutely no official handling. Tons of stuff that doesn’t make any sense…like why would someone of the upper echelons, like Hunter Biden, personally (not an assistant) drop off a laptop at an unauthorized (as in, not Apple certified) third-party repair shop, containing evidence of his dads corruption, during his dads election run, and then never pick it up?
Thats like half a dozen highly suspect things that happened before he even called the FBI, which didn’t come till after he held it for three months. And he only contacted them because of Giuliani’s trumped up allegations of corruption in Ukraine, yet he felt that the information on the drives was sensitive enough to make several copies for himself before that? There’s a couple more.
Then the FBI doesn’t respond for a couple months so he starts emailing congressmen, assumedly Republicans, and not one responded (I’m guessing their bullshit-detectors were spinning full-tilt). Then when he gets in contact with Giuliani/Costello, over a year after contacting the FBI, he gets a response.
So what happens? Giuliani, bastion of reputability that he is (/s), contacts the New York Post, the pinnacle of sound investigative journalism (/s, it is actually classified as a Tabloid, and is owned by Murdoch, who is also highly right-biased), and tells them what he knows.
The NY Post gets a copy to look at. Washington Post reaches out to them and Bannon asking for a copy to analyze independently. After all, if we’re going to have a far-right rag investigate corruption on a Democrat, it’s only makes sense that a slight-left journal gets a chance to at least fact-check them. Otherwise the whole thing has absolutely no credibility.
And of course, Bannon and NY Post refused. Why? If they have something, a left-leaning journal verifying it would be huge. And even if they are lying, they can just play the same Uno Reverse card they have up their sleeve for every other time they get caught with their pants down.
Ultimately when WaPo gets it, the first thing they see is that it had been tampered with, and that additional folders were created prior to it being handed to NYP, but long after the store took custody.
Through all this, even though several other emails can be confirmed legitimate through cryptographic signatures and finding received copies of the emails, not one of the juicy ones can. Not just by WaPo, but also by NyPo, and three republican-led congressional committees.
You fell for a hoax. Admit it. It should be easy, we’re dealing with conmen and serial liars like Trump and Giulliani. How the hell you, or anybody else, fell for their used car salesman schtick several times completely blows my mind, and honestly and makes me fear for the future of humanity.
Your summary is pretty good. However, pointing out that Trump and Giulliani are liars who can't handle evidence properly, doesn't make the suspicious email disappear. Nor does it allow the FBI to claim Russian Propaganda.
A few answers and clarifications below:-
No. I deliberately excluded Russia. What reason is there for you and the FBI to conclude any Russian involvement with the President's son's private email?
Drugs. Also it was only one email in a whole hard drive relating to Joe.
Backing up drives is standard practice when repairing a PC.
The FBI had the first copy and it was untampered. CBS experts also found no signs of tampering
Two of Hunter Biden's former business partners who received the message told CBS News that a line in the email — "10 held by H for the big guy?" — was shorthand for 10% held by Hunter Biden for his father.
You did, if you doubt the following:-
"10 for the big guy" email is real.
FBI knew and mislead.
No connections to Russia.
You and I have clearly different understandings of what’s “real”.
What’s real is this paragraph in both of the CBS articles you linked:
Gillar, of course, being the author of the email in question.
The CBS article also says what you need to know right in the headline
The copy turned over to the FBI showed no tampering. Granted, even if the original drive was destroyed in the liquid damage (doubtful, since this blind hack from Delaware could extract data from it), the copy the FBI received showed no tampering.
No wonder the FBI found nothing damning. They got the copy that wasn’t tampered.
That same article says roughly what I quoted above from Gillan, plus demonstrates that there were multiple copies floating around that were tampered with.
More than likely this was intentionally done to spread misinformation and get right wing media to rile up the base.
I like this bit from one of the CBS articles, too:
Fucking gold right there. I wish they would have talked about the other partner. But sure, this Bobulinski guy seems totally credible.
(For those keeping score, both the author of the email (Gillan) and at least one other partner (Walker) say Joe wasn’t involved. Bobulinsky and some other guy do).
I like your Judiciary link too. It’s poorly written and tough to follow, but it seems like Jim Jordan was getting a little butthurt that they wouldn’t disclose that the laptop was real. Note the carefully chosen words “the laptop is real”. Not the contents. Not the data, not the emails, “the laptop”.
And why should they? It was a nothingburger from start to end. With how rabid trumps fan base is, bringing the laptop back into the news cycle, even if nothing is found, would, through the lens of right-wing media, only perpetuate the idea that the FBI is corrupt. It’s a real “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenario. But the FBI already knew Trump was hostile towards them. They made the right choice.
Aside from that, you should really take an open letter and a press release from Jim Jordan with a grain of salt. The dude has got a vacuum seal around Trumps dick. Especially in the time between this letter and the run up for Speaker.
Who didn't reveal who "the big guy" actually was. Who refused further comment. Who later wrote when asked about Joe "If they lose, honestly, I don’t think that the Big Guy really cares about that because he’ll be too busy focusing on all the other s–t he is doing.”.
So the email you are disputing was recorded, in sequence, among a whole load of other verified evidence that has no sign of tampering. And there are other copies verified by other recipients, two of whom understood the big guy to be Joe.
This has not been stated. The 10% email may not even be for illegal activity, just politically sensitive/damaging. The FBI running "Russian Propaganda" interference is likely more damning.
Agreed. Giuliani certainly altered his copy. Doesn't affect the veracity of the big guy email.
Agreed. The main target of mud slinging was Hunter, who wasn't a candidate.
No-one in this deal can be trusted. One party's involvement was designed to be hidden from the get go. More questions need to be asked and answered.
So who is this big guy that is trusting his 10% into Hunter's care? If not Joe.
Holy fuck! Law enforcement don’t (shouldn't) get choices. Supposedly impartial, especially at FBI level. They investigate and gather evidence for criminal prosecution.
We can't believe the conclusions he is trying to insinuate. However, the requested evidence could be interesting.