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Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 08:43 AM Oct 2020

The fake Hunter Biden "bombshell" is here

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-ukraine-burisma-adviser-email

"The customer who brought in the water-damaged MacBook Pro for repair never paid for the service or retrieved it or a hard drive on which its contents were stored, according to the shop owner, who said he tried repeatedly to contact the client.

The shop owner couldn’t positively identify the customer as Hunter Biden, but said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, named after Hunter’s late brother and former Delaware attorney general."

LOL!
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The fake Hunter Biden "bombshell" is here (Original Post) Johnny2X2X Oct 2020 OP
Trump and his minions have cried wolf too many times, nobody is listening anymore..... FM123 Oct 2020 #1
So if someone had a Rolling Stones sticker on their laptop, madaboutharry Oct 2020 #2
LOL Exactly! Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2020 #16
The fact FOX ran this story is embarrassing Johnny2X2X Oct 2020 #3
Taking Viktor Shokin at his word bigtree Oct 2020 #4
The fake Hunter Biden "bombshell" is here FelineOverlord Oct 2020 #5
If Jake can't reach him, perhaps he might want a comment from @HillaryClinton. Or, if she's not avai soothsayer Oct 2020 #6
check out the utter desperation in the NY Post!!! lmao! Roland99 Oct 2020 #7
I can't even believe the NY Post would publish this garbage MaryMagdaline Oct 2020 #8
Maggie Habermann is trending for amplifying The NY Post story. demmiblue Oct 2020 #9
Now that you pushed the salacious bits you finally can question the actual contents? Nice. demmiblue Oct 2020 #11
So the chain of evidence went through Giuliani? yardwork Oct 2020 #17
Faux news is a joke. I wish others wouldn't post links to faux news on DU. It's full of crap. SWBTATTReg Oct 2020 #10
Well that's it for me...I won't vote for Hunter Biden. Thank god for Maggie! CincyDem Oct 2020 #12
I worked in a computer store... orwell Oct 2020 #13
Yes, more holes in it than Swiss cheese. yellowcanine Oct 2020 #21
Let me get this straight onethatcares Oct 2020 #14
Interesting that the computer was allegedly dropped off at the shop in April 2019, Tanuki Oct 2020 #15
I know whenever I work on a laptop the very first thing I do is make a copy of the HDD for Rudy. Hugin Oct 2020 #18
Pistachio shells have cut deeper. JHB Oct 2020 #19
So the shop owner made a copy of the hard drive before turning it yellowcanine Oct 2020 #20
Yeah, no problems with the chain of custody there... yellowcanine Oct 2020 #22
Update on this bombshell! Johnny2X2X Oct 2020 #23

FM123

(10,053 posts)
1. Trump and his minions have cried wolf too many times, nobody is listening anymore.....
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 08:46 AM
Oct 2020

(well, other than his brainless base)

madaboutharry

(40,212 posts)
2. So if someone had a Rolling Stones sticker on their laptop,
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 08:50 AM
Oct 2020

then according to this logic the laptop belongs to Mick Jagger.

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
3. The fact FOX ran this story is embarrassing
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 08:51 AM
Oct 2020

A water damaged laptop brought into a repair shop in 2019 with a Biden sticker on it? Completely desperate. And this went through Rudy Giuliani.

At least we know the CIA isn't helping them on this, they would have had the means to make it at least semi believable.

FelineOverlord

(3,580 posts)
5. The fake Hunter Biden "bombshell" is here
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 08:57 AM
Oct 2020

The "reporters" from other news sources that are promoting it are getting trashed. No surprise that Maggie "Access" Haberman is one of them.




soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
6. If Jake can't reach him, perhaps he might want a comment from @HillaryClinton. Or, if she's not avai
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 09:00 AM
Oct 2020

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Jennifer Taub
@jentaub
If Jake can’t reach him, perhaps he might want a comment from @HillaryClinton. Or, if she’s not available. Here’s mine. “GTFOH.” And you can quote me.

Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
I’ve not seen a response yet from Team @JoeBiden on this @nypost story. https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/

Have reached out - as has much of the press corps, I imagine.

Biden is doing a virtual fundraiser today.

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
7. check out the utter desperation in the NY Post!!! lmao!
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 09:01 AM
Oct 2020
https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/hunter-biden-emails-show-leveraging-connections-with-dad-to-boost-burisma-pay/

Hunter Biden’s e-mail to Archer is dated a little more than a week earlier.

“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote on April 13, 2014.

In other words it could be a really good thing or it could end up creating too great an expectation. We need to temper expectations regarding that visit.”

...

In No. 22, Hunter Biden told Archer, “Buy a cell phone from a 7/11 or CVS tmrw and ill do the same.”

Following the bullet points, Hunter Biden wrote, “This could be the break we have been waiting for if they really are smart enough to understand our long term value. If they are looking to just use us until the storm passes then we risked far too much for far too little.

“Finally, we need to have a plan on how we develop a corporate entity or LLP that allows us to draw on funds generated here to free us from existing (under-producing current commitments) and to build our own investment and expansion strategy. Maintaining the status quo is not an option,” he added.


Slap the cuffs on him, Sarge! Throw him in the clink! Oh....he'll get life in prison, if he's lucky!!



demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
9. Maggie Habermann is trending for amplifying The NY Post story.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 09:12 AM
Oct 2020


From the story:

But before turning over the gear, the shop owner says he made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello.

Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about the existence of the hard drive in late September and Giuliani provided The Post with a copy of it on Sunday.


demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
11. Now that you pushed the salacious bits you finally can question the actual contents? Nice.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 09:29 AM
Oct 2020
Now that you pushed the salacious bits you finally can question the actual contents? Nice. This is like a correction on page A30.


CincyDem

(6,363 posts)
12. Well that's it for me...I won't vote for Hunter Biden. Thank god for Maggie!
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 09:53 AM
Oct 2020

She’s saved me, and likely many of us, by ensuring we don’t split our Biden votes between Hunter and Joe. I was undecided between the two Bidens until now.



In reality, it was a joy to hand deliver my ballot to the BOE yesterday. This one drop box chit in Ohio is for the birds but we’re making it work.

orwell

(7,774 posts)
13. I worked in a computer store...
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 10:15 AM
Oct 2020

...we would never do any of the things this store did.

I never knew what was on a computer I worked on. I didn't care. My job was to fix the problem.

The only time we alerted authorities about a computer was when we saw a picture of a man getting his brains blown out on the computer's desktop wallpaper along with a disturbing child porn image.

I have been in the computer business for decades. I consider it unethical to look at a customer's personal information...especially emails. I would only check that the email account was properly functioning.

This is all a bunch of BS.

onethatcares

(16,172 posts)
14. Let me get this straight
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 10:18 AM
Oct 2020

I have a laptop with a Grateful Dead sticker on it. I can sell it as belonging to Jerry Garcia, correct?? Even tho the guy that dropped it off looked kinda, maybe, sorta like Jimi Hendrix.

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
15. Interesting that the computer was allegedly dropped off at the shop in April 2019,
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 10:24 AM
Oct 2020

the same month Joe Biden announced his candidacy.

Hugin

(33,162 posts)
18. I know whenever I work on a laptop the very first thing I do is make a copy of the HDD for Rudy.
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 10:33 AM
Oct 2020

Due diligence and all of that.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
20. So the shop owner made a copy of the hard drive before turning it
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 10:44 AM
Oct 2020

over to the FBI? That would be highly illegal, a violation of the privacy of the owner of the laptop.

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
23. Update on this bombshell!
Wed Oct 14, 2020, 11:54 AM
Oct 2020

It's surely the headline everywhere by now right?

Neither ABCNews, NBCNews, CNN, or CBSNews mention this story anywhere on their websites. It's not anywhere on the front page on FOX News, you have to click onto a subpage for it to be found at all where it's the 32nd story down on that subpage.

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