Posted on 03/19/2021 6:16:49 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Certain members of the press want very much for the Hunter Biden laptop story to be the work of the Russians, even despite assessments from the intelligence community in the United States that say otherwise.
A smattering of journalists and commentators falsely claimed this week that a recently unclassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence proves the laptop story was Russian disinformation.
The report says no such thing.
“In case you’re still wondering if the Hunter Biden laptop story came from the Kremlin,” Defense One reporter Patrick Tucker said Tuesday in a since-deleted tweet, “ODNI’s new unclassified report says yes.”
In reality, the report says only that Kremlin-linked operatives “sought to use prominent US persons and media conduits to launder their narratives to US officials and audiences.” It says more specifically that the operatives “made contact with established US media figures and helped produce a documentary that aired on a US television network in late January 2020.”
The report also states that “Russian state media, trolls, and online proxies, including those directed by Russian intelligence, published disparaging content about President Biden, his family, and the Democratic Party, and heavily amplified related content circulating in US media, including stories centered on his son.”
It makes no mention whatsoever of Hunter Biden’s laptop, whose contents reportedly came into the possession of Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, after the president’s son apparently forgot he had dropped the device off for repairs at a shop in Delaware. The ODNI report never even questions the veracity of the Biden laptop story; it says only that certain reports in U.S. media were "amplified" by Kremlin-linked operatives...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
There is, or there is not, a Hunter Biden Laptop.
There is, or there is not, emails on the laptop.
There is, or there is not, child pornography on the laptop.
Why is it so hard for people just to investigate and answer those three questions.
the story was true or it was false... this “russian disinformation” bs is silly...
What Hunter Biden laptop story??
I get my news from all the reputable MSM outlets, and this is the first I have ever seen about this.
You guys gotta be making stuff up.
(ok /s...for slow folks)
so the russians made hunter snort coke off the 10 yr olds back and shove his dick inside her?
really?
that’s what they’re going with??
The American media is the REAL disinformation!
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