The media refuses to report on the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop, but is eager to spread disinformation by claiming that the laptop was a Russian disinformation operation based on the thinnest of pretexts.
Even after DNI Ratcliffe specifically said that the intelligence community was not looking at a foreign operation, Spencer Ackerman, a notorious leftist hack, claimed that, according to, “a congressional source”, the FBI was looking at the laptop as a Russian intel operation. It probably wouldn’t be too surprising is that source turned out to be Schiff’s office. And, a statement from the DNI is a whole lot more authoritative about the investigation than a claim from Schiff’s people about what the FBI thinks.
But let’s blow past all that.
If the laptop is a Russian operation, it’s a curious sort of operation.
Remember, the FBI had the laptop since December 2019. Assuming that the Russians would have needed time to put the laptop together, that means the whole thing was crafted, at the latest, in November, when Biden was only marginally leading the Democrat field.
Back then it was a three man race between Biden, Sanders, and Warren.
An information operation in December 2019 wouldn’t have benefited Trump, it would have benefited the runner-up, Bernie Sanders.
Suggesting that the Russians launched an information operation against Biden in November or December of 2019, doesn’t suggest that they were trying to help President Trump, this far out before the election, but that they were helping Bernie Sanders.
So there are two possibilities here.
1. The laptops and their contents are real and haven’t been tampered with.
2. The laptops are a Russian operation… benefiting Bernie Sanders.
The media can choose 1. or 2. Both are credible. Certainly the previous Russian hacks of the DNC were meant to help Sanders’ people take over the Democrats. And Sanders has a history with Russia. But the media and Schiff can’t pretend that an operating during the thick of the Democrat primaries were meant to help Trump rather than elevate a Democrat rival to Biden.
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