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You are correct that it doesn't address the laptop emails directly. The issue here is that this provably false dump that NBC identified is pushing the same basic story the laptop email attempted to expose. You're seeing domestically coordinated smear campaign. It was organized by a domestic PR firm and wrongly characterized as Russian disinformation. Certainly foreign assets (its not just Russia)have amplified it like anything else that is divisive, but at its core it was a plot to make an October surprise. NYPost broke embargo on the story and published ahead of the plan, and that kind of threw everything into chaos. They've been trying to get something out of it, but there is nothing but outrage over supression of a non-story. Emails are a remarkably verifiable thing, and ones these just aren't.

Tony Bobulinski's tale has not been corroborated, even by Murdock's own WSJ journalists.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/oct/29/tony-bobulins...

I find this whole thrust rather remarkable anyhow. If true, Biden's family committed nepotism and would do so again if they were put into power. Really? Coming from an administration which is openly profiting from the office and giving insane amounts of power to their family members?



> Emails are a remarkably verifiable thing, and ones these just aren't.

Rob Graham just verified the DKIM headers of the “smoking gun” email included in the original Post article:

https://twitter.com/erratarob/status/1322007153415200768?s=2...


Thanks for sharing, I’ve been eager to see what the raw headers revealed. That’s pretty ninja to dig up the 2015 Gmail DNS records. DKIM spoofing is a thing, but its not all that likely. Its hard to know what actually happened given the chain of custody of the laptop. https://noxxi.de/research/breaking-dkim-on-purpose-and-by-ch...


I think we should be more careful about deflecting criticism of official with foreign or now domestic influences. Even if the material is authentic, it doesn't mean it has to hurt Biden. But the conspiracies from official sources get out of hand. NBCNews was careful here, but it is transparent that they didn't want to neutrally inform people.

These are real bad journalists compared to Greenwald.


> * provably false dump*

Not a single line of the NBC article seems to be refuting a single fact from the 64-page document. They do try very hard though to smear the anonymous publisher for trying to be anonymous, and imply without any evidence that somehow this document is tied to Hunter’s email story.




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