by Daniel Greenfield
There are only so many ways that media and social media companies can avoid saying, “We refuse to run this story or allow it to be seen by any human being because it might hurt Biden.”
First they claimed that it was unverified, a problem that never troubled the same papers and news networks which had spent years claiming that President Trump was a Russian agent.
After arguing that the story is unethical because it contains stolen materials, a scruple that the media had never previously exercised when it gleefully rushed to dig through everything from Sarah Palin’s email account to President Trump’s tax returns, they defaulted to Russia.
Hunter Biden’s laptop is, the media and social media companies insist, a Russian operation.
What’s the evidence for the Biden laptop being a Russian operation? About the same as the evidence that Trump is a Russian agent. Or, as the media might politely call it, “unverified”.
“Clearly, the origins of this whole smear are from the Kremlin, and the president is only happy to have Kremlin help in trying to amplify it,” Rep. Adam Schiff claimed, “I think we know who the driving force behind this smear has been all along, and it’s been the president and the Kremlin. The Kremlin has an obvious interest in denigrating Joe Biden.”
Clearly, if you say “Kremlin” three times, the claim becomes magically verified.
“They want Donald Trump to win,” Schiff argued. “He’s been the gift that doesn’t stop giving for the Kremlin, so clearly, they want to help him, so they want to denigrate the vice president.”
In President Trump’s latest gift to the Kremlin, he turned down Putin’s request to extend the START treaty, while Biden has committed to a five-year extension with no preconditions.
The Kremlin is terrified of Joe “I’ll Give You Everything You Want With No Preconditions” Biden.
“The Democratic Party is traditionally closer to the so-called liberal values, closer to social democratic ideas. And it was from the social democratic environment that the Communist Party evolved,” Putin recently said. “This can be seen as an ideological basis for developing contacts with the Democratic representative.” Or, to translate that into English, we’re all Commies here.
But forget the evidence. When it comes to Russia and Trump (or any scandalous accusation and Trump), the media has the same evidentiary standards as a witch hunter with a barrel.
Let’s do something so simple and obvious that the media’s fact checkers, who are trained to consult anonymous Estonian intelligence analysts and their grandmas, would never think of it.
Look at a calendar.
John Paul Mac Isaac, the Delaware computer repair store owner who got the laptop, claimed that he came into possession of it on April 12, 2019.
Biden only announced his candidacy in late April.
That would mean that the Russians had launched their disinformation operation against Biden before he was even running with the aim of preemptively knocking him out of the primaries.
Moscow must have been terrified of the guy who wanted to send $200 million to Iran after 9/11.
But let’s say Isaac was in on it.
In September, someone Isaac was in contact with, reached out to the FBI. And on December 17, 2019, the FBI took the laptop into custody, and then did nothing with it.
In December, Biden was leading a three-way race between him, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. While Biden had a lead, the race was still open, and most Democrats were undecided.
Assuming that the contents of the laptop in the custody of the FBI match the released materials, then the latest that a hypothetical Russian operation could have been launched is December.
If Democrats want to claim that the laptop was a Russian disinformation operation, then they have to argue that the Russians weren’t trying to interfere in the presidential election, but in the Democrat presidential primaries. That’s a credible argument considering Bernie’s Russian connection and that the DNC email hacks were pretty obviously meant to help Bernie’s people take over the Democrats while having no impact on the race between Trump and Hillary.
Thing is to prove what the Bidens did was illegal, nothing illegal about getting contracts or jobs. Not claiming income from any source is a crime. The son may have been laundering money from Ukraine and Russia. Him selling audience to daddy I don know if there is a statute. The kiddie porn and drug use is another issue for Jr.
Joe has been lying for years abount not knowing his families business that card is over drawn.
Of course, the laptop and material on it was never stolen. The repair shop owner took legal ownership of it when Hunter defaulted on his contract to pay for the repairs. That’s what happens. I bought a car from a repair shop under the same conditions (though there was no Biden porn inside).
The article left out the most brilliant and devious part of the Russian operation. Just like their 2016 “interference”, they used the TRUTH as a weapon! They cleverly loaded the planted laptop with actual, real emails that could be verified and which would frighten some of those mentioned on the emails to cover their asses and begin cooperating with authorities! BRILLIANT!
@kitt: As we have seen, being an unregistered foreign agent is a very, very, VERY serious crime, at the very least. Of course, there is Joe’s openly admitted extortion of Ukraine to protect Hunter, Burisma and Joe’s revenue stream. Schiff proved how serious “quid pro quo” is. A President can be impeached for it even when the previous Vice President was the guilty party!
There’s no evidence that the laptop actually belonged to Hunter Biden. The repair shop owner has admitted that he can’t identify who brought it in. Rudy Giuliani is in the middle of things. His not-so-secret White House mission has been to come up with something that Trump could use as a weapon against Biden. Part of that scam that involved pressuring the Ukrainian government got Trump impeached. It should have resulted in his removal from office.
The evidence is overwhelming and irrefutable.
@Greg: He HAS identified Hunter as who brought it in. Regardless, those are Hunter’s emails and Joe’s corruption that has been exposed.
Why would Russia go after Joe Biden months before Joe Biden even announced he was running?
Why, if Russia did that, didn’t they prevent his getting the nomination?
Both took place AFTER the repairman had the laptops (three of them.)
How on earth did Russia get 3rd parties to have perfectly mirrored emails on their own laptops/phones that gave proof to the facts shown also in financial records of Hunter and themselves?
Just as Russia did not pull Hillary away from campaigning in Wisconsin, so, too, Russia has not put gaffes in Joe’s mouth or caused him to insult undecided voters.
Russia did not discourage all but a handful of Biden supporters to show up EVERYWHERE he and his surrogates, including Cher and Obama, try to draw a crowd.
Russia did not force Hunter to have sex while smoking crack and texting, either.
@Nan G: Why would Russia (or China or Iran or N. Korea) do anything? Democrats are far more destructive than anything they could conceive short of an act that might incite war.
@Deplorable Me: Amazing all those years Joe couldnt save a dime and suddenly he is a multi-millionaire with mansions. Is hard to believe speaking fees would be the source looking at the crowds he attracts, 12 to 15 with Bon Jovi …ya that Bon Jovi
Bon Jovi – “Bed of Roses” you can hear the manure
Bon Jovi – “Livin’ on a Prayer” ...and 50 %
Bon Jovi – “Wanted Dead or Alive” …Dont ask Kamala which if he wins
Bon Jovi – “Wild in the Streets” … live performance with Antifa
Bon Jovi – “This Ain’t a Love Song” …you can say that again
Bon Jovi – “It’s My Life” ...but I lie about it
Bon Jovi – “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead” ...if we could only tell the difference
Bon Jovi – “Have a Nice Day” … You Chumps
@Greg:
Say that in the mirror three times and see what happens.
And…
THERE IS SO MUCH F*CKING EVIDENCE THE LAPTOP IS HUNTER BIDEN’S.
The failing Left can only lie now, so completely defeated they are.
@Greg:
The impeachment was a scam to cover up Biden’s corruption.
It didn’t work.
@Nathan Blue: Ashley Biden’s diary is supposedly released. Showers with Dad. Sexual abuse. Drugs. Not yet verified, though.
However, if this was Trump’s daughter, it would be on every network.
@Nathan Blue:
No there isn’t. There’s a label on the laptop that could have been stuck on by anybody; there’s a legally blind Trump supporter who later admitted he couldn’t see well enough to identify who brought the laptop into his repair shop; and there’s data on a hard drive that might be a complete fabrication, or include fabricated material mixed in with items procured by hackers. A separate copy of the latter is in the possession of known White House operative Rudy Giuliani, which hardly lends the claim credibility.
According to Lev Parnas, the incriminating photos on the hard drive—claimed to be of Hunter Biden—didn’t actually originate with the hard drive; they were being offered by sketchy Ukrainian sources back in May 2019, when Parnas and his associates were out looking for dirt. The asking price at the time was $5 million. He says Giuliani was approached in New York at around the same time by someone making the same offer. Subsequently they’ve been repackaged into the laptop hard drive.
Somebody may be going to jail. Giuliani might be among the contenders.
@Greg: How do you know they didnt originate on the hard drive? Answer, you dont you dont know squat, you simply repeat the mindless propaganda you are fed, there were 3 devices meth head dropped off could the pictures offered by Ukraine be from the other laptop? Or did he have a dedicated porn computer.
@Greg: Oh, Greg. So pathetic. You keep saying this isn’t about Hunter, then you make it all about Hunter. It isn’t; he is merely the vehicle. It’s the EMAILS. They are the evidence, they are the incriminating smoking gun and THEY are verified by the other recipients.
Joe is corrupt. Were he to win, we would have a verified national security threat in the White House being controlled by far left socialists. You may like that idea, but it is disgusting to actual Americans.
The laptop is equal parts a smear operation intended to keep the most corrupt president in modern history in office, and a distraction from the Republican Senate’s intention to confirm a Handmaid of People of Praise to the Supreme Court next Monday.
@Greg: Biden is corrupt. Massively corrupt, compromised and a national security threat. He is also incompetent. Today, he said that if we didn’t wear masks and social distance, 200,000 more will die by the end of the year. He is just stupid; too stupid for any intelligent person to take seriously.
You can thank Harry Reid for Barrett. While you’re at it, thank Obama, Brennan, Comey, Clapper. McCabe, Strzok, Pelosi, Schiff, Schumer, Booker, Feinstein, Harris and all the others who have played along with the ongoing coup against Trump.