I will never truly understand the infatuation with Hunter Biden. Oh, the son of a candidate to be president/the president is using their position for personal gain in a corrupt fashion? That's certainly not something that has been happening for the last half decade...
I think the implication (and no idea if true or not) is that he is also helping his Dad enrich himself. Plus there are some weird sexual family dynamics hinted at as well.
Well I think traditional media have acknowledged that the laptop is real. Of course that doesn't mean there was anything salacious on it and the excerpts arent in fact fake
The laptop is definitely real and his. I think there are salacious items on it (but I'm not sure if all the items I've seen claimed were on his laptop really were). I'm not sure if the stolen diary is really his sister's. FBI raiding Project Veritas might suggest it is?e
Unfortunately what is lacking is some large news organisation with lots of resources tracking down and corroborating all the information. But that won't happen because he's a Biden.
The diary is real, that much has been eluded to. But, again, are the excerpts that have trickled out real?
For what its worth, I believe [1] PV didn't publish anything from the diary deeming its contents irrelevant to the public.
But the stuff on laptop? I think its probably genuine. Too much corroborating material. Too many sweet board positions. Too much success in the art world (btw, the art is not bad. Just… unoriginal.)
[1] I dont follow PV so I dont know what they do or not do as a matter of fact.
PV declined to publish the diary because they couldn't be certain it was genuine and handed it over to the authorities. But still got raided by the FBI.
I just realized that my original post didnt address what your wrote. Its retained below the line for posterity
First family corruption isn't something of “the last half decade”, implying Trump. Its goes back way further and American don’t like, want it gone and whenever evidence of it appears they want heads to roll.
Second, if we’re comparing to the last half decade, then it stands to reason that prosecutors should be sicced on the first family as the Trump family was. Fair is fair, afterall.
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If you accept that the laptop is not a fake (a point that was conceded by traditional media after the election), the laptop contains substantial evidence [1] of corruption and sale of access. Furthermore it contains evidence that the president knew about it and was the coordinator behind the scenes (including Hunter complaining that his dad was taking too large a cut).
Now, before we get too excited, I think what’s on the laptop is par for the course in DC for either party. Its just the Joe has the fortune [2] of having a particularly inept son.
[1] I use the word “evidence” on purpose, as opposed to the word “proof”, that is to say it contains pieces of evidence that has to be validated, contextualized, etc.
For example, are the ppl that have come forward claiming that a certain nickname refers to Joe Biden lying?
The laptop is real, this much is widely conceded, but were the material published on right wing media really on it, or are they a fabrication? Or are they cut outs out of context?
But, prima facie, it doesn’t look good.
[2] I originally wrote “misfortune”, but no child is unfortunate. I really didnt know how to write this sentence in a way that
A. Conveyed my belief that Joe’s son causes problems
The accusation is that Hunter Biden was merely the proxy to buy Joe Biden.
>That's certainly not something that has been happening for the last half decade...
So, then what's keeping the 'liberal' media from reporting on the Biden/Burisma connection with the same zealotry the media showed when reporting on the Trump family's dirty dealings? Instead of that, they killed the Hunter Biden story in the run up to the election.
But to salvage whatever is left of their reputations outside a small group of true believers, they have since acknowledged that the laptop story is real.
After the election, of course ;)
The most annoying part of where we are is that I no longer know where to get fair reporting. I guess its always been like that, especially for foreign reporting, but its so laughably bad now :(
