• WarmSoda
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    9 months ago

    https://www.vox.com/22992772/hunter-biden-laptop

    In April 2019, someone dropped off three water-damaged laptops with him for repair, Mac Isaac claimed. He couldn’t say for sure who dropped them off, because he is legally blind, but he said the person identified himself as Hunter Biden…

    No one ever returned to pick up the laptops, so Mac Isaac (an enthusiastic Trump supporter) started looking at what’s on one of them. He saw what he thought was lots of scandalous material…

    per the New York Times, one reporter refused to put his name on the story due to credibility concerns…

    Even though the story of the abandoned laptop is bizarre, speculation that there’s more to it remains just speculation.

    There were two supposed “smoking guns” about Joe Biden that conservatives touted in the materials. The first was an email the Post called a “blockbuster,” in which an executive at the Ukrainian gas company Burisma thanked Hunter for the “opportunity to meet your father” in 2015. … This appears to amount to Vice President Biden seemingly going to one dinner.

    The second involved a business venture that Hunter tried to set up with a Chinese energy tycoon in 2017 (after Joe Biden was no longer vice president)…

    So this amounts to Joe Biden apparently refusing some deal Hunter tried to enmesh him in. An alternative possibility is that Joe was not actually ever involved and that Hunter had just been throwing his name around.

    All of this was indeed covered in the press in October 2020… So the real objection from conservatives is that they didn’t get the narrative they liked out of the mainstream media.

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          Well if you don’t get why it’s concerning the FBI is trying to suppress information that could impact an election then that says a lot about you. The FBI knowingly interfered with an election. You don’t find that the least bit concerning?

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            Let me know when you actually read the article I shared.

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              I will take my official government document as I don’t read Vox. It is highly biased liberal garbage.

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                Facts and evidence? Biased liberal garbage.

                But you’re not a conspiracy theorist? Lol

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                  How does the Vox article dispute the DOJ report I cited?

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                    It doesn’t
                    That’s my point. Read the article. Or at leat read what I quoted. Jesus.

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                Just because you don’t agree with it doesn’t mean it is inaccurate.

                Vox – Bias and Credibility

                Bias Rating: LEFT Factual Reporting: HIGH Country: USA Press Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

                Failed Fact Checks:

                None in the Last 5 years

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                  But ___ is left of center right, so it is [dismissive label].

                  This particular case the filled in answers are [vox, rag]. With users it is usually (user, troll).