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Allies of Joe Biden were skeptical that Kamala Harris was “ready” for the national spotlight during her 2016 US Senate campaign — but were apparently happy to hand over donor lists and even offer her a board seat with the Beau Biden Foundation after her camp dangled a $1,000 contribution, emails on first son Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop show. If completed, the convoluted transaction flouted the Foundation’s tax-exempt status and may have violated federal election law, experts told The Post this week. Allies of Harris, then California’s attorney general, contacted Josh Alcorn, Beau Biden’s top political and fundraising adviser, with...

The Justice Department has agreed to pay a total of $2 million to settle legal claims brought by former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page over the DOJ’s release of text messages the pair exchanged. The agreement ends a lawsuit Page brought, but does not fully resolve Strzok’s separate suit, allowing him to continue to press his claims that he was fired in order to please then-President Donald Trump. On Friday, Strzok’s lawyers announced his $1.2 million agreement as attorneys for both sides notified a federal judge in Washington that the privacy-focused portion of that...

Thomas Crooks’ phone has offered federal investigators no clear explanations about why the 20-year-old from suburban Pittsburgh tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump, law enforcement sources told The Post. Investigators have now turned their attention to the shooter’s laptop in the hopes of uncovering clues about his motive — a question that has proven still elusive two days after the shooting that rocked the nation. Investigators have been able to piece together some clues about Crooks’ movements in before the shooting at 6:11 p.m. on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania. Earlier in the day, he bought 50 rounds of ammunition...

CBS News president Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews – who was accused of sidelining white journalists and blocking an acclaimed correspondent’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop – is stepping down at the network, the company said Wednesday. The controversial news boss, who was named president just last August, is exiting after she made headlines in February over the firing of Catherine Herridge, a respected senior investigative reporter who had been doggedly covering the Hunter Biden laptop story for the network. At the time, media insiders speculated that Herridge’s exit was linked to her reporting that President Biden may have kept evidence that...

Senator Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, is reportedly open to a new presidential candidate to lead the Democratic Party ticket. This comes as the fallout from Joe Biden's disastrous debate performance just keeps getting worse. Schumer had indicated prior to the debate, as well, that he was open to a new nominee should Biden fail to deliver. Axios reports that "Over the last twelve days, Schumer has been listening to donors' ideas and suggestions about the best way forward for the party, according to three people familiar with the matter." Even as Schumer has been saying he's all in "for...

In an October 1903 article, the New York Times predicted it would take "one to ten million years" for man to develop a working "flying machine." We all know how that turned out. Sixty-nine days later, on Dec. 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made their historic first successful flight in the heavier-than-air Wright Flyer in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The New York Times was wrong then, and they continue to be wrong about many important things. One of the most dangerous in recent years was the Russia collusion story, for which they were awarded a Pulitzer Prize. For...

By now everybody knows about the infamous letter that was signed by over 50 former (but many still very active) members of the intelligence community claiming that, in their opinion, stories about Hunter Biden's laptop and its contents were likely part of a "Russian disinformation campaign" to interfere in the 2020 presidential election. Ironically, those claims about a "disinformation campaign" were themselves part of a disinformation campaign designed to bury the truth so it wouldn't harm the Democrat nominee in the days leading up to the election. The House Intelligence Committee says these efforts were known about at the highest...

The saga of Hunter Biden's laptop returns to the news, nearly four years after 51 intelligence officials signed onto a letter dismissing the very legitimate concerns as Russian disinformation. On Tuesday, the House Intelligence Committee, the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released a report detailing how CIA contractors colluded with the Biden campaign over the laptop to "MISLEAD AMERICAN VOTERS."The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday afternoon posted a thread of takeaways of evidence, which can also be found in the report and the report's executive summary, as well as statements...

WASHINGTON — Some of the 51 “Spies Who Lie” were active CIA contractors when they claimed files from first son Hunter Biden’s laptop had “the classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation ahead of the 2020 election — a fact that was uneasily noted inside the agency at the time, new records acquired by The Post show. Former CIA acting director Michael Morell, who previously told Congress he organized the Oct. 19, 2020, letter to give Joe Biden a “talking point” against then-President Donald Trump ahead of a debate, was a contractor at the time, the agency informed Congress. Ex-agency inspector general...

It is all so very loud now, isn’t it? Rather like walking behind the wings of a jet just before takeoff. You can hardly hear yourself think with the American corporate media in full-throated panic, shrieking of impending doom if their decrepit and corrupt old Joe Biden fades in Thursday’s presidential debate. The left is terrified of allowing Donald the Barbarian a chance to reclaim the White House. But they’ve given him this chance through terrible policies and the polls show that the people yearn for regime change. [snip] There were 51 of them in total, 51 whores who sold...

Remember University of Michigan law professor Barb McQuade? She’s a regular “legal analyst” on MSNBC and was but one of many who supported the assertion that Hunter Biden’s laptop was, in her words, “Russia.” Hilariously, she’s written a book titled “Attack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging America” the description of which reads “We are strategically being pushed apart by disinformation—the deliberate spreading of lies disguised as truth—and it comes at us from all sides.” More hilariously, McQuade (pictured) told Rachel Maddow earlier this year that the United States’ “deep commitment” to the First Amendment means there needs to be...

Don't believe your lyin' eyes.On October 14, 2020, the NY Post broke the story about the Hunter Biden laptop. It became a book entitle "Laptop from Hell" written by Miranda Devine. The Post was savagely attacked. Its account on Twitter was suspended. Anyone (including moi) even mentioning it on Facebook was sanctioned. 52 former intelligence officials lied to America about it. It was repeatedly called "Russian disinformation." The laptop was 100% authentic. Its authenticity was confirmed by an FBI agent during the Hunter Biden trial. Below you can watch 20 minutes of democrats denying it. The NY Times still can't...

House Oversight Chair James Comer indicated Republicans will soon release an interim report detailing alleged crimes uncovered in their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden. Comer said in a Fox News interview that the report will show crimes committed by Biden and his administration during and after the Obama-Biden White House years. “I think that it’s no secret Joe Biden’s committed many crimes, and I think that you’re going to see a report very soon. That report is imminent,” Comer said. “That will probably be an interim report that updates everyone on the crimes that Biden and his administration have...

Hunter Biden is dropping his lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani and the former New York City mayor’s ex-lawyer of manipulating data found on his infamous laptop. Biden’s lawyer Abbe Lowell filed the stipulation for dismissal Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The attorney asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit against Giuliani and Robert Costello “without prejudice, with each party bearing its own attorneys’ fees, costs, and expenses.” Attorneys for all three parties have agreed to the stipulation, court documents show. The lawsuit claimed that Giuliani, 80, and Costello violated the federal Computer Fraud...

Twenty minutes of the corporate press, U.S. intelligence agencies, and the Biden family telling you that Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian disinformation. Now, that the New York Times admits that the laptop is real, it is time for the corrupt media to acknowledge who the "big guy" is, and Hunter's voice note where he discussed working with the "spy chief of China".

As some media outlets, albeit reluctantly, are finally admitting in their coverage of the Hunter Biden gun trial that the "Laptop From Hell" is real and not the result of Russian disinformation, a main source of that fake news story in 2020, Politico, is now avoiding its own highly embarrassing role in promoting the now discredited conspiracy theory. Perhaps Josh Gerstein and Betsy Woodruff Swan hoped we wouldn't notice their attempt to deflect responsibility from Politico on Tuesday in "Prosecutors open their case against Hunter Biden by playing his own voice for the jury."Buried deep, deep down in their story...

WILMINGTON, Del. — For the first time Tuesday, first son Hunter Biden’s notorious “laptop from hell” — whose scandalous contents were first reported by The Post nearly four years ago — was shown to a jury of his peers, with federal prosecutors making it a key part of their case accusing the president’s child of illegally owning a gun while addicted to drugs. The pivotal moment unfolded after prosecutor Derek Hines brought out a plastic-wrapped laptop, walked it across the courtroom and presented it to his first witness, FBI Special Agent Erika Jensen. Jensen took the MacBook Pro 13 and...

Biden echoed that claim, citing a letter by over 50 former intelligence officials. But as Breitbart News noted earlier this week, those officials admitted they had no actual evidence of “Russian disinformation,” and they allowed that the emails might in fact be “genuine.”

Hunter Biden helped the U.S. law firm that employed him secure a lucrative retainer with Burisma Holdings a decade ago, and its lawyers proceeded to draft a 58-page plan to try to extricate the controversial energy company from an ongoing criminal investigation in Ukraine that relied heavily on trying to influence his father’s administration in Washington, according to evidence gathered by the FBI. The “legal defense plan” memo by Boies Schiller & Flexner, obtained by Just the News, was part of a collection of 3.39 million pages of evidence that federal agents seized during the 2016 election as part of...

The evolution of Hunter Biden laptop denial over the last three and a half years has been mind-boggling. You need a chart to keep up. First the laptop was a non-story (thanks, NPR). Then it was “hacked material” (thanks, Twitter). Then it was “Russian disinformation” (thanks, CIA). Then it was a “Russian plant” (thanks, Joe Biden). Then it was “stolen” by Russians. (Hunter weighed in with crystal clarity: “I have no idea … There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was Russian intelligence....