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.
WOW -- Trump crashes out and cuts his interview with Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged
"You're either crooked or you're stupid. Let's call it quits. Because I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her."
"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads.
Yes, I had a very severe reaction to my second Moderna shot. But part of being a responsible scientist with a large platform is not extrapolating my personal experience to the entire population.
I also have a rare autoimmune condition called Parsonage-Turner syndrome (diagnosed in 2013), so I may have been particularly vulnerable to side effects.
Given my bad experience with the first mRNA vaccine I've ever taken, I have made the personal decision to avoid them in the future.
However, it would have been incredibly unscientific and highly irresponsible of me to take this personal experience of mine and start telling millions of people online to not get vaccinated for COVID.
There's a reason quack alternative medicine practitioners plaster personal testimonies all over their websites. They sound convincing to a lot of people. But it's purely manipulation. Personal testimony, even a large collection of them, isn't a substitute for real, population-level data.
I am not an expert on vaccines, the COVID vaccine, or epidemiology in general. So when I experience a serious side effect taking something with a non-zero rate of serious side effects, I understand that my personal experience likely isn't an indication that we're all being lied to about safety.
You should understand that as well.
The impulse to extrapolate a very negative personal experience to the entire population is very strong. But responsible scientists, and especially those with large public platforms, should resist that impulse.
Bought a $1,742.80 camera online from BestBuy.
The FedEx delivery driver stole it. FedEx admitted it.
But BestBuy won’t give a refund. They said we need to “work with local law enforcement.”
Thought everyone should know if you buy from @BestBuy and a @FedEx driver steals what you paid for, your money is gone. Neither company will make it right.
I’ve spent over $30K at BestBuy and will never spend another penny there.
These are personal stories I rarely share but you’ve moved me to do so.
My aunt and uncle were your neighbors. My cousins and I played with you and Beau as kids. My dad, a psychiatrist, worked alongside your father advocating for mental health and insurance reform. Joe Biden has always been Uncle Joe to us. That’s just Delaware.
When Beau passed, my mom went to Dover. Uncle Joe stood by that casket for over 10 hours. When she reached him and said, “You probably don’t remember me—” he hugged her, said her name, and recalled a shared memory. After 10 hours. That is who your father is.
My cousin Craig died at 29 from ulcerative colitis. My Aunt Georgi at 60 from the same disease. Your family knows that grief and has carried it with a grace that still undoes me.
But I also want to say this: your journey has moved me deeply. Your sobriety. Your refusal to let anyone define you by your worst moments. The way you handle trolls with wit, intelligence, and logic — in real time, in public — is showing people what recovery and dignity actually look like. It matters more than you know.
As Director of Content for @DemCastUSA — thank you for taking the time to engage with us. You didn’t have to. You did it anyway.
That’s a Biden move right there. 💙
Go Birds. 🦅
@HunterBiden
History will not remember either of us. But I know that history will record that the most disgraceful man ever to hold the office of President of the United States stood in Arlington, looked around, and asked: "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"
All the reports from the Platner rally, plus the videos circulating, show a raucous crowd and multiple standing ovations. The NYT calls it “relatively sedate.”
If you get your news from the Times, stop being stunned when events don’t turn out the way you think they will.
Jake Lang, who beat Capitol police officers with a baseball bat on January 6, spent four years in federal prison on an 11-count indictment, got pardoned by Trump on day one, and was recently running for U.S. Senate in Florida, was arrested Tuesday night in Frisco, Texas on a criminal trespass warrant.
He hopped a fence into a high school stadium to film what he claimed was dried blood from a stabbing, then posted it online for clout.
Since his pardon he has also been charged with felony property damage in Minnesota for destroying an ice sculpture, charged with threatening a Capitol police officer, showed up outside a mosque in Plano holding a severed pig’s head, threw chocolate coins outside AIPAC while doing a Nazi salute, and dragged a goat on a leash to a protest against a Muslim mayoral candidate. For real though!
Trump pardoned this bastard. He is currently in the Collin County jail complaining about his mattress.
The pardon was 136 days ago. VIA~~Eric Blackerby
"Pelley was not uncivil. He didn’t threaten anyone. He didn’t curse or scream. He was professionally disagreeable. Which is basically the job description for journalists. It’s the job description that Weiss herself wrote. She just didn’t mean it."
https://t.co/Xc4ha2iVx3
266,000 jobs under Biden:
“slowed”
“muddled expectations”
“fell short”
172,000 jobs under trump:
“upswing”
“vigorous”
“strong sign for economy”
This is the double standard Dems have had to deal with for the past 10 years.
Extraordinary Letter.
Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger.
"The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who
collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr"
In appeals court fight over the White House ballroom, DOJ says the federal government could quickly bulldoze the statute of liberty and no one would have standing to sue over the changes once the demolition is done.
Did the New York Times Just Run an Anti-Platner Hit Job?
"The 'paper of record' centered its big scoop, on the leftist Senate candidate's 'unsettling' behavior with former girlfriends, on the uncorroborated accusations of a pro-Israel Republican activist."
@KrisMurphy16236@LiberateNDs@zeteo_news No, women don't always share their bad experiences. Christine Blasey Ford was called a liar bc she didn't talk about hers. E. Jean Carroll shared her experiences contemporaneously but that didn't seem to be good enough to people. Even today, despite the conviction.
TRUMP EPSTEIN PEDO FILES: "I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the Plaintiff was forced to have with Mr. Trump during this period, including the fourth of these encounters where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop." https://t.co/Ib5cGUjAZn