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Does it matter if it’s Russian disinformation or disinformation from another interested party?

What we do know is the laptops at left at the repair shop makes little sense. Hunter was going to leave a handful of expensive computers for repair without following up and getting them back? The owner doesn’t even have his contact information?

Then you have Rudy not willing to allow anyone to examine the hard drive. If it was legit this is the easiest way to give the story credibility. Given his refusal, it seems very clear that the data on this hard drive was assembled after the fact.

Who has the technical resources to hack Hunter Biden’s accounts to assemble such a large trove of his personal emails and texts?

Russian Intelligence is by far the leading candidate and there is no one in second place.

It was a clever plan. Fill the drive with legit emails, photos, videos, and texts. Then salt them with a small set of carefully produced and incredibly damaging forgeries.

Release right before election, with enough time to maximize impact, but not enough time for anyone to detect the forgeries. Bam!

Was a good plan, but the press is far more savvy about these types of attempts now.




The biggest BS flag is that the total invoice was for only $85. That’s pretty cheap for fixing multiple laptops. Nothing about the story adds up.


It was data recovery, data recovery is just taking the hard drive out, connect to another computer, run a piece of software that restores files, and put it back on the laptop.

Also, a correction for the parent, the person did leave Hunter Biden's contact information.


You never done data recovery, do you?


If they had Hunters contact info, why doesn’t Hunter have his computers? Who abandons thousands of dollars worth of computers over an $85 Bill?

And what a coincidence that the shop owner was a huge and active Trump supporter. Sure I’ll take HIS word on where the laptops came from and that he called Hunter.


Crack is wack. When you smoke crack you do crazy things, at least that's my impression of the drug.




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