• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      The only reason I’m not okay with Hunter Biden is because it was a witch hunt.

      They had no evidence he did anything wrong yet started the investigation anyway just because of his last name.

      That’s not a corrupt person charged feel good story it’s a big brother is watching story

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        My favorite thing about Hunter Biden is it demonstrates that Joe is a career politician who’s actually clean enough that they have to make up shit about his grown kid. At least they aren’t going after Beau.

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          It turns out the laptop wasn’t made up.

          It turns out the FBI lied when labeling it Russian Propaganda.

          It turns our the “10% for the big guy” email is genuine.

          It turns out the big guy is Joe.

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            Citation needed

            Despite persistent allegations that the laptop contents indicated corruption by Joe Biden, a joint investigation by two Republican Senate committees released in September 2020 did not find wrongdoing by him, nor did a Republican House Oversight committee investigation by November 2023.[12][13][14][15][16]

            Just admit to yourself that you fell prey to a Russian psyop to destabilize their adversary (us). It’s not that difficult, or even far-fetched, compared to even a fifth of the drivel coming out of far-right media.

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              Citation for what part? The 4 points I raised above are not “made up shit”.

              Your decision to add a 5th point no way negates the previous 4. Why bring Russia into this? Did they supply Hunter’s drugs on the day he submitted his laptop for repairs?

              Why was Joe to receive 10% of Hunter’s deal? Can you answer that?

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                It turns out the FBI lied when labeling it Russian Propaganda.

                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.

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                  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:-

                  You brought Russia into it

                  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?

                  why would Hunter Biden drop off a laptop containing evidence of his dads corruption?

                  Drugs. Also it was only one email in a whole hard drive relating to Joe.

                  he felt that the information on the drives was sensitive enough to make several copies for himself before that?

                  Backing up drives is standard practice when repairing a PC.

                  Ultimately when WaPo gets it, the first thing they see is that it had been tampered with,

                  The FBI had the first copy and it was untampered. CBS experts also found no signs of tampering

                  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.

                  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 fell for a hoax.

                  You did, if you doubt the following:-

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                    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:

                    When the email became public in 2020, Gilliar told the Wall Street Journal that Joe Biden was not involved. And in one of the interviews FBI agents conducted during the investigation, another partner of Hunter Biden’s said the same. “I certainly never was thinking at any time that [then-Vice President Biden was] a part of anything we were doing,” businessman Rob Walker told agents, according to a transcript released by Congress.

                    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

                    Copy of what’s believed to be Hunter Biden’s laptop data turned over by repair shop to FBI showed no tampering,

                    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:

                    Two of Hunter’s former business partners, including Tony Bobulinski, who received the email, have told CBS News that “10 held by H for the big guy?” is shorthand for 10% held by Hunter for his father.

                    two paragraphs later

                    Bobulinski had a falling out with Hunter Biden, and has been a critic of the president and his son. His appearance and interview on Fox News came on the heels of the initial reports in the New York Post about the laptop.

                    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.