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Hunter Biden's infamous “laptop from hell” is the over $27 million the sitting (if sleeping) U.S. president and his family raked in by selling political influence to corrupt rebels This may be the most damning mountain of evidence that connects the two. American regimes, especially China's communist regime of Xi Jinping.
Still, the laptop's enduring relevance is not as a story about Biden, but as a story of political corruption in the government's law enforcement and intelligence agencies, pillars of the rule of law and national security.
Think about this. The FBI obtained the laptop in December 2019 and quickly authenticated it. It wasn't difficult to authenticate as there was a lot of publicly available information to support the data. The data was unmistakably Hunter Biden's.
This is the fourth anniversary of the biggest lie ever told by the Biden-Harris administration. The situation is only getting worse
What does that mean? Well, voting day wasn't until November 3, 2020. So while early voting was already happening weeks before the election, the FBI has known for nearly a year that this laptop was real.
Nevertheless, the bureau issued a complaint against social media giants such as Twitter (now They were induced to suppress reporting. how? It deceptively implied that the Post's reporting was likely the result of an influence operation conducted by Russian intelligence.
In reality, this was an influence operation carried out by current and former U.S. intelligence officials. The FBI wasn't alone.
The government's “intelligence community” regularly shares information. The IC also tends to hype Russian “interference” in US elections. But such “influence operations” have been going on for many years. Russia intervened in American politics throughout the Cold War. This has been the case since the collapse of the Soviet Union to this day. Influence operations are also reciprocal, with U.S. spy agencies routinely trying to influence Soviet politics and now trying to undermine President Putin. What good is it if you don't?
Despite the heavy breathing of the media and Democratic Party complex, modern Russia is a basket case state run by a mafia-style regime, and the maneuvering to influence elections is often laughably amateurish. Moreover, they are negligible ripples in a sea of multibillion-dollar American campaign messages.
Hunter Biden's laptop becomes key evidence in gun trial and resurfaces as media embarrassment
As our nation's domestic security service specializing in foreign counterintelligence operations, the FBI is a critical IC component. The IC is led by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and part of its core mission is to ensure that intelligence is shared across the community, including the CIA to combat foreign threats to American interests. It is to do. If the FBI knew the laptop was genuine and not a product of Russian intelligence, so did the IC.
But the infamous election-eve letter was authored by IC veterans led by former officials who held top posts at the CIA and ODNI in the Obama and Biden administrations, including 51 of those employees who were voters. He created the infamous document in which he tried to trick the Post into firing him. It reported that the laptop had “typical characteristics of Russian information operations.” In fact, we now know that this letter, instigated at the suggestion of Antony Blinken (then a Biden-Harris campaign adviser and now Secretary of State in the Biden-Harris administration), is a “classic earmark.” I know the line was proposed by President Obama's James Clapper. -Biden Director of National Intelligence.
The letter was dated October 19, 2020, also 10 months after the FBI seized the laptop. Naturally, President Biden also needed to know that the laptop was real, and to discredit then-President Trump's emphasis on the laptop and its abhorrent contents during the runoff, Capitalized on official letters and the political use of the government's national security credentials. Presidential debate.
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It doesn't take a quantum physicist to figure out what happened here. In the summer of 2020, as detailed by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), he and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) had access to bank records and other documents related to large payments to the Biden family. (which formed the basis of the eventual House impeachment inquiry). Alarmed Senate Democrats suddenly called on friendly FBI supervisors in Washington, D.C., to intervene to explain the bureau's concerns about Russian influence operations in the 2020 election.
There was no reason to believe that easily verifiable bank records regarding suspicious foreign transfers were created by Russian intelligence. But the FBI worked with Democrats to frame it that way. The agency produced an “assessment” of signs of foreign interference in the upcoming 2020 election at the time, which Democrats have used to paint Mr. Grassley and Mr. Johnson as suckers following orders from the Russians. did. (See, for example, this August 13, 2020 Associated Press report, citing an FBI assessment and accusing Johnson of “amplifying” “Russian” propaganda.)
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When this laptop was unveiled in mid-October 2020, thanks to a report in the Post, it simply became part of this Russian disinformation fairy tale. Social media companies suppressed reporting because the FBI encouraged them to do so, even though they knew the laptop was real. Fifty-one national security officials submitted letters one after another, and Mr. Biden himself touted wrongdoing during the debate.
Americans spend more than $100 billion annually on ICs. The legacy of the laptop is the capture of IC by the government party.
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