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Politico Playbook: Hey, the Hunter-laptop story was legit after all
hotair.com ^ | 9/21/2021 | ed morrissey

Posted on 09/21/2021 6:04:28 PM PDT by bitt

The deuce you say. Maybe the rest of the national media shouldn’t have rushed to bury the story of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the first place, huh? A new book from a Politico reporter belatedly clears the decks for a reassessment of the Bidens, especially Hunter and his nexus between powerful interests and “the big guy”:

FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Ben Schreckinger’s “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” out today, finds evidence that some of the purported HUNTER BIDEN laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.

"A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden’s emails confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden. The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, “10 held by H for the big guy?” (This person recalled seeing both emails, but was not in a position to compare the leaked emails word-for-word to the originals.)

MORE: Emails released by a Swedish government agency also match emails in the leaked cache, and two people who corresponded with Hunter Biden confirmed emails from the cache were genuine."

Gee, just imagine if the national media had taken an interest in asking these questions eleven months ago. Instead, not only did these outlets immediately dismiss the Hunter-laptop story as fake news, social media platforms began blocking any discussion of it — to the point of suspending the New York Post’s Twitter accounts. Facebook not only suppressed it, but bragged about creating an algorithm to automatically suppress it. We’ll get back to that point in the end.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenvoters; bloggers; hunterbiden; laptop
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1 posted on 09/21/2021 6:04:28 PM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 09/21/2021 6:04:45 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

the first sentence is a link to this:

https://www.politico.com/playbook

(the whole page is a surprise to me..)


3 posted on 09/21/2021 6:05:54 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

Just like Hillary’s Rose Law Firm records miraculously surfaced after after all the charges were dropped.


4 posted on 09/21/2021 6:07:26 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: bitt

Methinks that the Left is getting reeeeal tired of Bloody Joe.


5 posted on 09/21/2021 6:07:26 PM PDT by Az Joe ( "Everything woke turns to shit" ----- Pray, pray hard, pray hard without ceasing for America.)
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To: bitt

Hmmm…are they Libs doing a “limited hangout” or starting to turn on Joe?


6 posted on 09/21/2021 6:09:43 PM PDT by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: bitt

Big whoop. Now that the election is long over, the damage done, suddenly a few media outlets and persons feel the need to “come clean” and try to regain a bit of lost credibility.

Something they can point to down the line and say, “Hey, yeah, we made a mistake, but we corrected it. So there!”

Total bull-feces.


7 posted on 09/21/2021 6:14:28 PM PDT by Ronin (White privilege is not having to fake your own hate crimes. (HT: CrappieLuck))
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To: bitt
Yah,but the NY Post...the nation's oldest,and 4th largest,newspaper...was banned from Facebook,Twitter etc when the story broke.One would almost think that that pig fornicator Dorsey and that zombie Zuckerberg *wanted* Harris/Biden to win.
8 posted on 09/21/2021 6:14:36 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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Are we seeing signs that the Left thinks it might be time to start moving Old Joe off the stage? Who will he be replaced with? Surely not the Camel. W will know the time has come if Camel starts to find herself involved in serious scandal. That’s how it happened with Nixon. The deep state wanted him gone but really didn’t want Agnew to be the replacement.


9 posted on 09/21/2021 6:17:33 PM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe i)
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FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Ben Schreckinger’s “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power,” out today, finds evidence that some of the purported HUNTER BIDEN laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of last October’s controversy.

A person who had independent access to Hunter Biden’s emails confirmed he did receive a 2015 email from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet Joe Biden. The same goes for a 2017 email in which a proposed equity breakdown of a venture with Chinese energy executives includes the line, “10 held by H for the big guy?” (This person recalled seeing both emails, but was not in a position to compare the leaked emails word-for-word to the originals.)

MORE: Emails released by a Swedish government agency also match emails in the leaked cache, and two people who corresponded with Hunter Biden confirmed emails from the cache were genuine.

While the leak contains genuine files, it remains possible that fake material has been slipped in.

BACKGROUND: A former Hunter Biden business partner, TONY BOBULINSKI, said last year the “10 Held by H” email was genuine and referred to plans for Hunter to hold equity in the venture — which did not get off the ground — on behalf of his father. Biden’s campaign said he never considered going into business with his family.

WHAT DOES THE WHITE HOUSE HAVE TO SAY? Asked for the book whether Joe Biden had an April 2015 encounter with Burisma adviser VADYM POZHARSKYI at a dinner at Cafe Milano, a White House spokesman did not respond directly. Instead, the spokesman referred to an April WaPo article that includes a campaign denial of any meeting. The article confirms Joe Biden’s presence at the dinner, while casting doubt on any Pozharskyi encounter there. Pozharskyi did not respond to requests for comment.

WHAT DOES HUNTER HAVE TO SAY? This spring, he told CBS the laptop “certainly” could be his. His lawyer, CHRIS CLARK, did not respond to questions for the book.


10 posted on 09/21/2021 6:17:52 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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RUT ROh,


11 posted on 09/21/2021 6:20:18 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ronin
and try to regain a bit of lost credibility.

Not a snow ❄️ balls chance, of that EVER happening.

12 posted on 09/21/2021 6:25:48 PM PDT by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: bitt

Sadly, it ain’t a scandal unless the New York Times says it’s a scandal. See Tagline.


13 posted on 09/21/2021 6:31:26 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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14 posted on 09/21/2021 6:33:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: bitt

Let’s see if Rat Party Headquarters’ plan is to ease Plugs out of the picture.


15 posted on 09/21/2021 6:33:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: Ronin

Now that the election is long over, the damage done, suddenly a few media outlets and persons feel the need to “come clean” and try to regain a bit of lost credibility.

With the media and big tech’s collusion on suppressing the Hunter Biden story, I now wish all the worst things in the world to befall these rat bastards. No forgiveness for what they’ve done. None.


16 posted on 09/21/2021 6:38:21 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We may or may not have reached herd immunity, but we've definitely achieved herd stupidity.)
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To: bitt
Are we supposed to pretend that the legitimacy of the data on Hunter's laptop wasn't established long ago?

What has happened to the FBI's investigation into "10% for the big guy"?

17 posted on 09/21/2021 6:57:48 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: bitt

So what? Democrats are immune.


18 posted on 09/21/2021 6:59:07 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: bitt

The info was out there a long time ago.

What is happening here, with all the “left wing” revelations, is the anti-moral left simply sticking their collective finger in the eye of conservative America and God -

These are “victory laps”, announcing and demonstrating the left can violate all mortality and law with total impunity.


19 posted on 09/21/2021 6:59:12 PM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!) )
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To: bitt

The Democrat Party had no qualms about burying the story.

Sadly the Democrat Party includes most of the so-called “news” media.


20 posted on 09/21/2021 7:13:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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