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Biden email episode illustrates risk to Trump from Giuliani
The Associated Press ^ | October 17, 2020 | By ERIC TUCKER (D-AP)

Posted on 10/17/2020 6:07:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

A New York tabloid’s puzzling account about how it acquired emails purportedly from Joe Biden’s son has raised some red flags. One of the biggest involves the source of the emails: Rudy Giuliani.

Giuliani has traveled abroad looking for dirt on the Bidens, developing relationships with shadowy figures, including a Ukrainian lawmaker who U.S. officials have described as a Russian agent and part of a broader Russian effort to denigrate the Democratic presidential nominee.

Yet Giuliani says foreign sources didn’t provide the Hunter Biden emails. He says a laptop containing the emails and intimate photos was simply abandoned in a Delaware repair shop and the shop owner reached out to Giuliani’s lawyer.

Frustration about Giuliani in the West Wing has long run rampant, with those around the president warily watching Giuliani’s efforts to bring down the Bidens and fearful they could boomerang back on the president.

Giuliani was central to advancing a discredited theory that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the 2016 election. His shadowy efforts to get Ukraine to launch investigations into the Bidens helped create the impeachment case against Trump.

Some around Trump fear that the case being made against the younger Biden has been weakened because Giuliani has become its face.

The Trump campaign has been pushing allegations of corruption against the Bidens for more than a year, with the president advancing the widely discredited theory that the vice president sought to force out Ukraine’s top prosecutor to protect his son from scrutiny. Though Trump associates believe a case can be made that Hunter enriched himself by selling access to his father, they fear that Giuliani’s lack of credibility will cause the allegations to implode.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; election2020; journalism; media
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1 posted on 10/17/2020 6:07:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“ Ukrainian lawmaker who U.S. officials have described as a Russian agent and part of a broader Russian effort to denigrate the Democratic presidential nominee.”

Pure fantasy...

2 posted on 10/17/2020 6:09:04 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (In this circus called the Democrat Party, Biden is the monkey and Harris is the organ grinder...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What a crock....they got the emails because Biden’s idiot son left his computer at a computer repair place and didn't pick it up.!!!!!
3 posted on 10/17/2020 6:09:13 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Some around Trump fear that the case being made against the younger Biden has been weakened because Giuliani has become its face.”

Not buying it.


4 posted on 10/17/2020 6:10:43 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: All

“New York tabloid” eh? Media has been at all out war and just got whacked back. Full damage control in effect.


5 posted on 10/17/2020 6:11:02 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When in doubt, Democrat scum turn to character assassination.


6 posted on 10/17/2020 6:11:59 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They’re trying to shoot the messenger.


7 posted on 10/17/2020 6:12:14 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So relieved that AP has such care and concern for the President.

I can spit further than I can trust AP and the other alphabet news wires and networks.

They’re all chamber pots and nothing more.


8 posted on 10/17/2020 6:12:18 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Some thoughts:

If something is too good to be true, it usually isn't.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

9 posted on 10/17/2020 6:13:16 AM PDT by buckalfa
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Next thing they will argue is that former Naval officer Hunter Biden was on a deep cover, secret mission in the Ukraine to stop the Russians.


10 posted on 10/17/2020 6:13:48 AM PDT by allendale
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
He says a laptop containing the emails and intimate photos was simply abandoned in a Delaware repair shop and the shop owner reached out to Giuliani’s lawyer.

He reached out first to the FBI, who took possession of the drive. That's no small detail these hack reporters left out!

11 posted on 10/17/2020 6:13:59 AM PDT by kevao (BIBLICAL JESUS: Give your money to the poor. SOCIALIST JESUS: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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The man who took down the mob and saved New York City not once, but twice, is now a Russian spy...

Right.

Got it.


12 posted on 10/17/2020 6:14:27 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

With each passing day in this election I understand Pinochet better.


13 posted on 10/17/2020 6:14:47 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I knew I would find the Dem (and their media) October "surprises" interesting and hilarious.

The hoops they force themselves to jump through and the pretzels they twist themselves into is just so funny to see, hear, and read...

14 posted on 10/17/2020 6:15:12 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All I can do is sum this up as, "What a liar!"

15 posted on 10/17/2020 6:18:22 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod (To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
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To: stinkerpot65

Guliani has been smart, though. He is slowly releasing the info so he will let the msm commit themselves and release more to swat them down. He knew they would go after him. They always have, and so he anticipated this move. I am hoping that they find some dirt on the msm (Times or Post would do), a few congressmen and senators, the FBI, etc. In other words, the ones who have always thought they were untouchable...


16 posted on 10/17/2020 6:20:04 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
the widely discredited theory that the vice president sought to force out Ukraine’s top prosecutor

Nobody has discredited it. He's on video bragging about it. But the goebbels gang figures they can just keep repeating the words "discredited" and "debunked" as if some team of secret scientists somewhere examined it all and disproved it.

The mockingbirds are rather like ostriches, with their heads in a hole saying "Nope, I'm not looking. If I don't see it then it's not there."

17 posted on 10/17/2020 6:20:08 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rudy was first to prosecute under RICO laws and says he has ten items that he is holding. Those “things” only he and Hunter know. Rudy isn’t by any means dumb. He has them in checkmate. I believe there is some merit to the concern as I believe Rudy has drinking problem.


18 posted on 10/17/2020 6:20:22 AM PDT by mmanager (Whew, been a while :))
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19 posted on 10/17/2020 6:20:39 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No bias here. /S


20 posted on 10/17/2020 6:21:45 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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