It’s so bizarre that to comment on it risks amplifying it.
But the New York Post published a story Wednesday morning claiming to have received from Rudy Giuliani a copy of a hard drive from a Hunter Biden laptop.
Even fox business knows this is Bull Shit
This is from their site
“What the chairmen discovered during the course of this investigation is that the Obama administration knew that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board was problematic and did interfere in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine,” the report states
Even so, the report acknowledged that the extent to which Hunter Biden’s board position affected Ukraine policy was “not clear.” It did not establish that specific policy decisions were influenced by Biden’s position.
I figured there’d be some attempt at a dirty trick October surprise from team Trump, but I didn’t think they’d go with “Remember how the president got impeached for pushing confounding Ukraine conspiracies? Wasn’t that awesome?”
I guess they’re not sending their best
It sounds to me as if rudi and his friends made this up by themselves, with any russian or ukrainian help. St Petersburg would have done a better job.
Ah, the New York Post. The paper of record.
Also, did the “Hunter Biden” who supposedly dropped off the computer have a Russian accent?
Rudy needs to retire. He is also a jerk.
Rudy Giuliani: A noun, a verb, and a steaming pile of bullsh-t.
Rudy has had 8 months to concoct an October surprise with the help of Russian intelligence and this is the best he can do? Why not just fake a note from Biden to Burisma that says “give my sun allot of money and I will get yur investigatement totally stopped”
toilet paper of record.
This story reads like junior-high girls plotting revenge against a classmate. If only we had some adults running the country . . .
Additional flags:
TPM could have published this crap without rudi’s horrible big teeth hanging out of his mouth…gross!!!
Anonymous person drops off laptop.
Anonymous computer shop owner.
No one picked it up.
How convenient.
This just smells.
“All of this is suggestive, but it doesn’t get anywhere near towards answering the question of how this strange story came to be.”
I say give it until the weekend and by then something will have blown up in their faces with respect to this idiocy. It always does. Someone will run a check on the computer store owner’s background or some leak will come out of DOJ or whatever and it’ll all come crumbling down and be yet another instance of Trump and the GOP blatantly trying to leverage foreign assistance in the election because they consider democracy an existential threat and no longer want anything but permanent power at all costs and by any means available…and yeah, it will be obvious to everyone that that’s what’s going on…and yet because DOJ is entirely corrupted and the FBI is full of neofascist wannabes, we’ll just never really be able to prove it.
ETA: And yeah, America’s loving RT spouse, Faux News, is pretending this is indeed the October surprise of the century and has really blown a hole in Biden’s presidential hopes…so many articles and opinion pieces on there that it’s not even worth bothering linking any of them this time (you’re fucking welcome). Worth noting that Rudy is now also claiming to have VIDEOS of “compromising positions”. Welcome to the world of DEEP FAKE. We knew this was coming.
Colonel Mustard in the Pizza Parlor Basement with Hillary’s Server?
It doesn’t matter how bullshit the premise of all of this is, the cult followers will of a certainty believe it. Rudy could say he had proof that Hunter Biden was an alien from the third planet orbiting Proxima Centauri and the cult followers who watch Fox 24/7 will swallow it whole.And then when interviewed regurgitate the story ad nauseam perfectly word for word.
All this has to include is emails, Biden, Ukraine … that’s it. The source does not matter, The truth does not matter.
Not true! Sometimes it just lies there and rots because it can’t even break through the insane news cycle when, 47 minutes later, Donald Trump makes another wordpoop out his facehole right onto an especially cuddly veteran military working dog who earned a Purple Paw saving a warehouse full of Baby Jesus dolls.
The source does not matter, The truth does not matter.
I like the analogy of a ship or troops laying smoke to hide a retreat.
Just keep laying it.
Key qualifier, though: they already believe it.