You're arguing about whether the laptop was "real" because it's the only card you've got left. It was never the point. It was the bait - and you bit. Here's what the letter was actually about.
Long before that NY Post story, Trump's OWN intelligence community named Andrii Derkach a Russian agent running an operation to smear Biden over Ukraine. Not Schiff. Not CNN. Trump's own administration leaders - he was pissed about it.
Then Trump's OWN Treasury Secretary Mnuchin sanctioned Derkach — "an active Russian agent for over a decade." That's Giuliani's source. There are photos of the two of them cozied up in Kyiv with an OAN film crew to document it all.
Then Trump's OWN FBI director Wray went to Congress and said Russia was "very active," aiming "primarily to denigrate" Biden with a "steady drumbeat of misinformation." Trump hated him for it. You're to the right of Chris Wray on this.
So a laptop magically appears, through Giuliani, the guy taking material from a sanctioned Russian asset, to "prove" the exact narrative every serious agency had already flagged as a Kremlin op. And you think the suspicious thing was the letter?
The $5M "bribe" you still cite? FBI informant Alexander Smirnov pleaded GUILTY to fabricating it. He'd been talking to Russian intelligence. The whole case against the Bidens was a lie told by a Russian asset. Exactly what the 51 warned about.
The 51 didn't fall for it. You did. And you're STILL doing it. The laptop was never the story, you were.
@DataRepublican@CBHeresy@HunterBiden You are having trouble coming to terms with that fact that you were lied to and fell for it for years.
Cognitive dissonance is tough some times.