Posted on 10/19/2020 7:30:33 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
If the stakes were not high, it would be a laugh-riot to listen to people who relied on the Steele dossier in an Intelligence Community assessment, and in four sworn FISA warrant applications, going on now about the Biden laptop being a “Russian disinformation” hoax.
But let’s be serious about authenticity for a second.
In a court of law, even in a criminal case where a person’s liberty is at stake, there is a presumption in favor of admitting relevant evidence as long as it appears to be what the proponent represents it to be.
That is, the evidence is put before the jury. Lingering questions about its provenance go to the weight of the evidence — meaning, how much, if any, importance we should ascribe to it. They do not result in the suppression of the evidence.
The most salient consideration in analyzing the authenticity of an item is the item itself.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The Left says: President Trump claimed “without evidence” that the sky is blue on a sunny day.
The Left says: The claim that November follows October has been “debunked”.
Maybe we should say: The media is making a “ridiculous claim” that Hunter Biden’s laptop is not Hunter Biden’s laptop.
As always from the S$itHill, here’s a real gem from the comments section:
“The entire tale of this laptop finding it’s way from California to Delaware to Rudy is so ridiculously unbelievable, it’s hard to imagine anyone falling for it.
But there’s always Trump’s idiot army to fall back on.”
Just so, and what I’ve been wailing about in this forum for three days: the proponent of evidence has the burden to authenticate it. For the love of all that is holy: Release the lawyers emails and the repair contract! Pull the rug out from under these people in the “disinformation” counter narrative!
As we’ve noted, though, first and foremost in any authenticity examination is the item itself. Here, we have thousands of Biden photographs and videos that plainly appear to be real. The emails make contextual sense, and they fit what is known about Hunter Biden’s business activity (about which a great deal of investigative journalism has been done, most effectively by Peter Schweizer). According to Fox News, one unidentified participant in an email about Hunter’s Chinese business dealings has acknowledged the email’s authenticity.
Game, set, match. There is a witness.
Giuliani and his attorney did a good job of vetting these emails. They verified that it was Hunter Biden’s signature on the contract with the computer shop. They verified that the abandonment clause that gave ownership of the computer to the shop owner was legal. They cross-checked some emails - checked that whomever sent or received an email from Hunter also had these emails on their computers with matching times/dates Obviously the ones they checked were emails of no consequence, but it proves it was Hunter sending/receiving the emails on this computer, and that it would have been impossible for Russia/China to implant fake data on the computers of everyone with whom Hunter corresponded.
The Left is on a Debunk overdose ,LOL
Good piece.
Yeah, I noticed that the Comments section is a brain trust.
Hill comments are the same paid bots that you see all over Twitter/social media.
I think Shrill comments are their echo/testing chamber.
Suddenly democrats believe in fake news...
The Left is on a Debunk overdose ,LOL
Yep, if they say “its been debunked”, then its debunked. No evidence necessary.
LOL....true!!
I think they might be purposely doing this. Dragging it out, having Biden steadfastly NOT denying it, letting the story build and then BAM! here is the proof.
A PAWN shop???
I just took a DUmpster dive and those folks are smoking pure Hopeium. Biden is twenty points ahead! Massive blue wave coming! Russia Russia Russia! Reality is cruel and unforgiving. I'm guessing they won't be happy November 4th.
Just what it looks like some things you can’t cover up.
Try again.
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