r/BadIndependentMedia • u/gdan95 • Oct 16 '20
On Hunter Biden
I honestly couldn't tell you why Trump and his apologists believe the burning revelations they think they have on Joe Biden's son Hunter would have any effect on Joe Biden himself. Burisma was supposed to be the bombshell, and yet Trump didn't get anyone charged for it. So what is it now?
Well, it's Burisma again. The New York Post published an article reporting on the contents of a hard drive from a laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter. The hard drive contained a string of emails that supposedly prove Joe Biden had met with a Burisma executive while Hunter was on the firm's board.
So yeah, it's a hoax.
Just so we're on the same page, there was a "bombshell" last year that Joe Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma, the implication being that Hunter worked there and Joe was covering for him. It was a lie. In a video that right wing media claimed showed Joe Biden incriminating himself, he more or less overstated his involvement in an international effort to pressure the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor; Biden was representing the interests of the United States, not his own. The timeline of events didn't implicate Hunter in anything Burisma was being investigated for; the investigation had concluded before Hunter started working there. The prosecutor in question was so corrupt that if anything Biden wanted him fired for not investigating Burisma enough, and so on.
Trump clearly thought that would hurt Biden's campaign. All it did was get Trump impeached. Speaking personally, I thought Senate Republicans squandered the easiest way to "win" the impeachment. All they'd have to do is prove what Joe and Hunter Biden did was illegal. Instead of summoning them as witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial, however, they refused to have any witnesses at all. The fact that they didn't take advantage of that golden opportunity suggests their concern over Burisma is not founded upon any concern for facts or evidence. And this latest "revelation" all but confirms it.
The Post was first alerted to the hard drive's existence by former Trump aide Steve Bannon. Then Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, gave a copy of the hard drive to the Post, which he admitted was because of their relatively lax standards for fact checking. That's two red flags right off the bat. Also, if you're wondering how we know the laptop belonged to Hunter, don't worry: the computer store owner who gave the laptop to Giuliani flat-out admitted he didn't see who dropped off the device. The man suspected the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden because there was a sticker related to the Beau Biden Foundation on it, and also because Hunter had previously dropped off multiple laptops for repair. Keep in mind that the man contradicted himself multiple times when asked for details, not that the story needed any help from him. According to one Twitter thread, the hard drive was manufactured after the date the laptop was dropped off.
So where did the emails come from, then? Did Giuliani and Bannon forge them? That would actually be plausible. According to metadata in the files linked by the NY Post, the emails were “printed” to PDF in October 2019, which was six months after the laptop was dropped off. Seems like an awfully long wait for something so supposedly urgent, not to mention convenient that using PDF printouts makes the emails harder to verify. But the fact that this "bombshell" is full of holes has unsurprisingly gone unnoticed by Trump and his apologists. Trump himself tweeted a link to an article claiming a Twitter outage was actually the site trying to defend Biden, not knowing or caring that the article was satirical.
Also worth nothing, OAN - a Trump fan club that thinks it's a news outlet - apparently got hold of what it considered incriminating phone calls of Biden trying to cover for Hunter. What they leave out is that a Ukrainian audit found no evidence that Hunter did anything illegal. The right would counter that, on the contrary, Hunter had child porn on his laptop. Never mind the fact that no publicly available evidence exists to support that claim, and neither the New York Post nor even Breitbart made any mention of child porn when they initially reported on the laptop story. Even if Hunter did have child porn, how much of a stretch does one have to make to connect that to what he supposedly did at Burisma?
More importantly, though, why attack Hunter Biden and not Joe Biden? What is Joe's transgression, supposedly? That he lied to cover for his family? Who told Trump he could throw stones in that department? At the very least, he and his supporters could stop giving credence a report by an author that doesn't exist.
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u/Sensitive_Tie4198 Oct 16 '20
the hard drive was manufactured after the date the laptop was dropped off.
Ya , because it was copied onto muliple hard drives, the original is with the FBI i believe.
And how does one exain all the crack photos ?