Hunter Biden Laptop Controversy

HughFreakingDillon

release a statement with oddly capitalized letters. 

gimmesometruth27

The Juggler said:

gimmesometruth27 said:

joe should tell the people pumping up this story that he will just pardon hunter AND hunter's laptop.

Because he's been treated very unfairly. It's a witch hunt!

lol it has been nice to not have to hear that on a daily basis for the last year.

RoleModelsinBlood31

Drip.  Drip.  Drip.  

The Juggler

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

Drip.  Drip.  Drip.  

Halifax2TheMax

Typically indicates a trip to the doctor is required.

mickeyrat

Halifax2TheMax said:

Typically indicates a trip to the doctor is required.

ooooh with that nasty poke deep into ...

tempo_n_groove

So the Post had an oped piece today that made the cover.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/05/clinton-2016-campaign-lawyer-tech-exec-in-joint-venture-to-smear-trump-durham-alleges/

It goes along the lines of the Biden laptop...

static111

RoleModelsinBlood31 said:

Drip.  Drip.  Drip.  

That's what happens when you date strippers after Hunter Biden

Halifax2TheMax

tempo_n_groove said:

So the Post had an oped piece today that made the cover.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/05/clinton-2016-campaign-lawyer-tech-exec-in-joint-venture-to-smear-trump-durham-alleges/

It goes along the lines of the Biden laptop...

Rupert’s creative genius at work.

tempo_n_groove

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

So the Post had an oped piece today that made the cover.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/05/clinton-2016-campaign-lawyer-tech-exec-in-joint-venture-to-smear-trump-durham-alleges/

It goes along the lines of the Biden laptop...

Rupert’s creative genius at work.

Whenever I read an article in this I feel like the person writing is yelling at me.  It's a very gruff read...  Avoid it if you can, sorry for posting.

tbergs

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

So the Post had an oped piece today that made the cover.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/05/clinton-2016-campaign-lawyer-tech-exec-in-joint-venture-to-smear-trump-durham-alleges/

It goes along the lines of the Biden laptop...

Rupert’s creative genius at work.

Whenever I read an article in this I feel like the person writing is yelling at me.  It's a very gruff read...  Avoid it if you can, sorry for posting.

Avoiding the NY Post should be what everyone does. It's barely news most of the time.

josevolution

tbergs said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

tempo_n_groove said:

So the Post had an oped piece today that made the cover.

https://nypost.com/2022/04/05/clinton-2016-campaign-lawyer-tech-exec-in-joint-venture-to-smear-trump-durham-alleges/

It goes along the lines of the Biden laptop...

Rupert’s creative genius at work.

Whenever I read an article in this I feel like the person writing is yelling at me.  It's a very gruff read...  Avoid it if you can, sorry for posting.

Avoiding the NY Post should be what everyone does. It's barely news most of the time.

Newspaper for the uneducated right up Trumpolinni liking!

mcgruff10

The Juggler

mcgruff10 said:

Oh my goodness. This perfectly captures their hypocrisy. 

Halifax2TheMax

Can't wait for those indictments. Any. Day. Now.

Now warning about Hunter Biden-laptop disinfo: The guy who leaked it

The national story quickly centered on the dubious provenance of the material, particularly given how, four years before, WikiLeaks had begun releasing material stolen by Russian hackers at about the same point in the presidential contest. But for news outlets interested in actually evaluating what the New York Post claimed it had, neither the paper nor its source for the material, President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, were willing to share. (Giuliani famously told the New York Times that he was hoping to avoid having the material vetted before being published.) It therefore seemed wise to treat the New York Post’s claims with some skepticism.

Now, a new voice has joined those raising questions about the validity of the material that’s alleged to have been on Hunter Biden’s laptop: the guy who recovered that data in the first place.

“The experts found the data had been repeatedly accessed and copied by people other than Hunter Biden over nearly three years,” our report explained, with those we spoke with being unable to “reach definitive conclusions about the contents as a whole, including whether all of it originated from a single computer or could have been assembled from files from multiple computers and put on the portable drive.”

It’s important to explain how Mac Isaac created the backup in the first place. The laptop he obtained repeatedly shut down as he tried to recover its data. So, instead of simply copying the entire hard drive to another device, he did so piecemeal, copying individual files and folders one at a time. In doing so, he claims that he saw material that he found alarming.

“I saw some content that was disturbing and then also raised some red flags,” Mac Isaac explained to “Real America’s Voice.” Later asked to explain what had alarmed him, he said that he saw “criminality … related to foreign business dealings, to potential money laundering and, more importantly, national security issues and concerns.” That, he explained, was “what caused me to do a deep dive into the laptop once it became my property.”

Here, again, the timeline is iffy. Delaware law indicates that he could assume ownership of the laptop after a year. But he obtained the laptop in April 2019 (at the same time that conservative media was beginning to focus on Hunter Biden’s relationship with a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma) and gave it to the FBI that December. He said that he was alarmed by the failure of the laptop to come up during Trump’s first impeachment investigation. That effort ended in February 2020, before a year had passed.

What Mac Isaac said next, though, is what was most noteworthy. When he did his “deep dive,” he said, he “saw a lot of photos” — but “did not see a lot of photos that are being reported to [have been] seen.”

In other words, Mac Isaac says that he has seen claims about what the laptop contains that don’t actually reflect what he saw on the laptop at the outset. Or, presumably, sees now, as one of the few people that might still have an unlittered copy of its contents.

To what is he referring? It’s hard to say. It may include one of the more popular claims that has circulated on the right, alleging that the machine included evidence of criminal sexual activity by Hunter Biden. (This was alleged on-air by Tucker Carlson last year, without proof.) Or it may involve other claims entirely.

Here’s where The Washington Post’s discovery that folders were added becomes more important. We have evidence that the portable hard drive had something added to it both before and after the New York Post’s original story — and here’s Mac Isaac agreeing that some of what he’s seen presented as coming from the laptop was never on there. This is why provenance matters in journalistic investigations. Just because Rudy Giuliani says that material came from a hard drive is not reason to assume it did — particularly when he’s on-record as disparaging the idea that the material should be vetted before being reported on.

The guy who leaked the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop is now warning about false claims about what it included - The Washington Post

Halifax2TheMax

Can you discern the differences?

The New York Times reports that Mr. Kushner’s new real estate private equityventure took a $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in 2021. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, reportedly ordered the investment personally, over the objections of the wealth fund’s experts, who saw Mr. Kushner as too inexperienced and his business plan too risky. Other Gulf states had rebuffed Mr. Kushner, for similar reasons. Thus, the Saudi stake represents the vast majority of his firm’s $2.5 billion capital. Mr. Kushner and partners stand to get a $25 million per year management fee, plus a share of any profits, according to the Times.

It’s a troubling arrangement — in many ways. Mr. Kushner is well-known as having been the crown prince’s top advocate within the White House during the four years Mr. Trump occupied it. His ostensible rationale for courting MBS was to win Saudi backing for Arab recognition of Israel, which several countries did confer — though not Saudi Arabia. Mr. Kushner’s solicitude continued even after it became evident that MBS ordered the gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a regime critic and Post Global Opinions contributing columnist, at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Playing down that crime and the MBS regime’s cover-up, the Trump administration later blocked efforts in the United Nations and Congress to curb Saudi excesses in its proxy war with Iran over Yemen. Instead, Mr. Trump boosted U.S. arms sales to Riyadh.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/14/jared-kushner-deal-saudi-arabia-mohammed-bin-salman-collections-opmiddleeast/

Go Beavers

The family carried on their business deals right out in the open, using their positions in government to profit. The response from Dems was pretty much zip, and republican voters see it as savvy business owners being good capitalists. Take that indifference and combine it with the following and expect to hear much more about Hunter's laptop and less about Kush's $2 billion deal:

'Last week, American intelligence officials reportedly assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin may use the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine as a pretext to order a new campaign to interfere in U.S. elections. Though AP reported that “it is not yet clear which candidates Russia might try to promote or what methods it might use,” Russian state media seem to be in agreement that former U.S. President Donald Trump remains Moscow’s candidate of choice.

The time is coming “to again help our partner Trump to become president,” state TV host Evgeny Popov recently declared. On Thursday’s edition of the state television show The Evening With Vladimir Soloviev, Putin’s pet pundits offered an update on plans for 2024.'

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-airs-ultimate-revenge-plan-180320569.html

Halifax2TheMax

Go Beavers said:

The family carried on their business deals right out in the open, using their positions in government to profit. The response from Dems was pretty much zip, and republican voters see it as savvy business owners being good capitalists. Take that indifference and combine it with the following and expect to hear much more about Hunter's laptop and less about Kush's $2 billion deal:

'Last week, American intelligence officials reportedly assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin may use the Biden administration’s support for Ukraine as a pretext to order a new campaign to interfere in U.S. elections. Though AP reported that “it is not yet clear which candidates Russia might try to promote or what methods it might use,” Russian state media seem to be in agreement that former U.S. President Donald Trump remains Moscow’s candidate of choice.

The time is coming “to again help our partner Trump to become president,” state TV host Evgeny Popov recently declared. On Thursday’s edition of the state television show The Evening With Vladimir Soloviev, Putin’s pet pundits offered an update on plans for 2024.'

https://news.yahoo.com/russia-airs-ultimate-revenge-plan-180320569.html

I disagree that Dems’ response was “zip.”

But carry on.

Halifax2TheMax

Where's Hunter at yo?

Today, President Biden used his sweeping clemency powers for the first time, announcing three pardons and the commutations of 75 sentences of nonviolent drug offenders. The announcements signal a far more targeted use of his authority than employed by former president Donald Trump, who granted pardons to political allies and celebrities who ran afoul of the law, among others. Biden’s actions follow calls by criminal justice advocates to grant leniency in a system that often disproportionately affects people of color.

mickeyrat

Federal agents see chargeable tax, gun-purchase case against Hunter Biden  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/06/hunter-biden-tax-gun-charges/ 

  Federal agents see chargeable tax, gun-purchase case against Hunter Biden
By Devlin Barrett and Perry Stein
October 06, 2022 at 14:26 ET
Federal agents investigating President Biden’s son Hunter have gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him with tax crimes and a false statement related to a gun purchase, according to people familiar with the case. The next step is for the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, a Trump administration holdover, to decide on whether to file such charges, these people said.
The investigation into Hunter Biden began in 2018, and became a central focus for then-president Donald Trump during his unsuccessful 2020 reelection effort. Initially, the investigation centered around Hunter Biden’s finances related to overseas business ties and consulting work. Over time, investigators with multiple agencies focused closely on whether he did not report all of his income, and whether he lied on gun purchase paperwork in 2018, according to the people familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing case.
Agents determined months ago they had assembled a viable criminal case against the younger Biden. But it is ultimately up to prosecutors at the Justice Department, not agents, to decide whether to file charges in cases where prosecutors believe the evidence is strong enough to lead to a likely conviction at trial.
Given the intense political interest in a criminal probe involving the son of a sitting president, Attorney General Merrick Garland has made clear that the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, David C. Weiss, who was nominated by Trump in late 2017, is supervising the case.

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