To bad the oligarch can't spell.

What, no pee tape?

NY Post comes out with the email claim, Giuliani is behind it. It looks very much like a tabloid story. FaceBook declares it is a bogus story and they are refusing to let it be disseminated on their platform until it is fact checked.

After all the email attacks on Clinton, I don't see this crap going anywhere except within the cult who are already claiming the Deep State is trying to quash the story.

But obviously Trump is going to spew this story all over Twitter and his rallies.

As one person put it. from America's Mayor to Trump's Chump.

Continuing from my post above: Certainly suspect source, a laptop supposedly not retrieved from a repair shop? Who does that?

The claim is the hard drive was turned over to the FBI almost a year ago. Now suddenly in Oct Rudy dumps the story out. :rolleyes:

Sounds more like an October Pile of **** than Surprise.

Utter BS. If there was actual incriminating evidence in the hands of a private citizen, they'd release it. The whole story falls apart when you realize that rich people (Hunter Biden qualifies) don't drop off their malfunctioning computer equipment at random repair shops. They hire someone to come to them and fix the equipment on site.

Tens of thousands of Hunter Bidens emails. That guy writes a lot of emails.

Trump only does ketchup.

Or they buy a new one, and I'm not even close to being rich. My son (31) tells me I'm stuck with built-in obsolescence. In his opinion, just get a new one, they have totally upgraded stuff on them. Same with a phone and a camera (not on the phone). Need a battery, get a new camera. Printer quits working, buy a new one.

When your father is the VP of the US and there are emails between the two of you concerning sensitive government business, not to mention explicit sexual photos, you don't just go off and leave it with some computer store. The whole thing sounds like a contrived pile of horse manure.

Rudy was hanging out in the Ukraine. I'm picturing some guy on the street in a trench coat with a heavy accent saying, "Psst, you want dirt? I got this laptop for sale with a whole lot of dirt. It's broken, but if you get it fixed you won't be disappointed."

:sdl:

You'd probably at least want to recover data from the hard drive (or have it professionally erased) if possible, but that's a while-you-wait sort of operation. Even if you were taking it in, they'd probably say to come back in a couple hours.

Obamagate is the new Pizzagate: everyone who thinks there is something there comes back looking like an idiot.

As Trump goes, so goes Rudy. He know this and he's desperate. He's scraping the bottom of the hard disk, so to speak.

I'm hoping Barr's October Surprise is that he quits and releases a tell-all book about Trump.

Ah, dreams...!

I'd prefer a terse firing via Twitter. Barr deserves to be utterly humiliated.

Mainly about yoga and Chelsea's wedding, probably.

Being found coked to the eyeballs wearing a gimp mask, in the steam room of a "leather" massage parlour.

ETA: Live on Fox News.

My unused and dead computers are just piling up in my garage. :p

Rudy Giuliani today on Steve Bannon's radio show –

Sounds like Giuliani is going to do a slow burn on releasing what was found on Biden's hard drive a la Project Veritas over the next several days.

I think I'm going to take a vacation just so I have time to watch the loony left's meltdown this week! It's gonna be so much fun!

I'd go beyond calling it a suspect source and call it ******* stupid.

Rudy "Lucky" Giuliano was given some laptop that, miracle of miracles, was left unclaimed at some nameless "PC repair shop" and has a trove of Biden dirt still left on it? Where was this repair shop? Kiev? Oh dear. There's this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7467158

Rudy has obviously been duped by some Ukrainian con-man. Stands to reason. He got duped by an American con-man before that. He went to Kiev, and having dug deep enough, hit the sewer line.

What makes you think any of it, even if there is any "it," is true? It's not like Rudy is a picture of integrity and probity, or even sobriety.

According to them, they had the hard drive for over a year.
Why did they only start talking about it now?
Why not, say, during the Impeachment Hearings?

Those two are full of ****.

Maybe Hunter was still high on the crack he was seen smoking in a video found on the hard drive?

The laptop was allegedly dropped at a shop in Delaware owned by somebody who just coincidentally is an ardent Trumper.
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-...mation-2020-10

The owner also had trouble keeping his story straight:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/man-wh...rre-interview/

"John Paul Mac Isaac" sounds kind of Russian to me. ******* Putin!!!

Giuliani had been feeling left out with Barr taking all the attention. With Trump now openly speaking about getting rid of Barr, Giuliani sees his chance for a comeback.

Doesn't mean you shouldn't believe it.

At this point Rudy Giuliani has so little credibility left that nobody will care that nobody even responds to this nonsense

It's like, too stupid for a soap opera plot line.

Except that it's becoming a big deal because social media outlets are slapping the story down, along with users attempting to promote it, users like the White House Press Secretary.

While I'm glad that Twitter and Facebook seem to be getting serious about fake news, I'm concerned about a potential "cover-up" backlash.

I was a little puzzled by a few things in the NY Post article about Hunter Biden's laptop.
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-...iz-man-to-dad/


To start with, the repair shop owner claims only that he believes that Hunter Biden was the person who dropped off the laptop. I don't know; every time I've taken anything (electronics, car) to a repair shop, they take my name and contact information. Without that, how do they get the authorization to perform any actual repairs? Furthermore, a repair shop can only take possession of "abandoned" property if they first send a notice via certified mail to the owner of the property. How could they do that since they don't seem to have 100 percent certainty of who owned the laptop?

Maybe it's just me, but I found it a little strange that there is only a screen shot of an email. Why not a copy of the actual email with the metadata to prove its authenticity?

There is no indication of when a meeting with Joe Biden supposedly took place. The email states something about "yesterday evening", which would refer to an evening on which Joe Biden gave speeches at 2 events.

There will be backlash, but it will be amongst die hard Trumpers. But they already thought it was all true the minute they found out Biden had a son named Hunter. Everyone else who isn't neck deep into right wing nonsense isn't going to believe any of that.

I hope this kind of halting of highly suspicious news by Social Media outlets will become the norm.

No doubt. It shows the desperation at Fox News that they're pushing this BS so hard outside their opinion scum.

Without your contact details, ow can they tell you the repair is complete ? Are you supposed to keep popping in on the off chance that the repairs are complete ? If the repair shop owner cannot identify you due to a medical condition, how do you make sure you get your laptop back ?

I guess this guy operates a business where people just drop off laptops for repair, come back some time later and take some laptop (could be theirs, could be someone else's) away with them. :confused:

From VOX:

From VOX:

Another White House super-spreader event?

LOOOTS of manspreading, yes.

People have dropped off laptops containing child porn at computer stores before now (e.g. Gary Glitter). It happens.

True, but they also tend to leave their contact details so that they can come back and collect it and/or payment details so that the computer store can get paid for their services.

Perhaps he has a side business preparing stolen computers for resale.

Are we sure no contact information was left? Where are we getting that from?

I think we’re getting that from the whole situation being a fabrication.

Have you checked how many articles the author of the Hunter Biden piece in the Post has written before?

So because it's a fabrication, you are making up additional facts that you don't actually know to be true, to support it being a fabrication? This is going to be a confusing thread.

How does that relate to where people are getting the information about no contact details being left?

*Very slowly* Because if this was an actual news story with journalistic integrity and there was an actual legit papertrail linking this phantom computer that doesn't exist to Hunter Biden... okay brace yourself because this part gets complicated and is going to blow your mind... the article would have said so.

Real news stories don't trickle release information like they are writing a 1930s movie serial and need a cliffhanger each episode.

The lack of clarity about who left the laptop :confused:

From the report, the owner of the store surmised that Hunter Biden left the laptop (even though a medical condition prevented them seeing who did) because there were reportedly stickers relating to the Beau Biden Foundation on it.

If the person had left contact information, this level of "sleuthing" would have been unnecessary.