Below is my column in Fox.com on the authentication of Hunter Biden’s laptop in the Delaware trial. The government has denounced the Russian disinformation claims as a “conspiracy theory” and put on evidence that there is no evidence of tampering with the laptop. The FBI declared the laptop to be “real” and “authentic” and the court agreed. It was introduced as evidence before many reporters who previously embraced the debunked “conspiracy theory.” As discussed below, Houdini’s elephant was just revealed on stage and most of the audience looked away.
Here is the column:
Watching the coverage this week out of Delaware was like finding oneself in a parallel universe. There were ABC, NBC, CBS, the Washington Post and other news outlets reporting matter-of-factly that the Hunter Biden laptop showed no evidence of tampering and was both real and authentic.
These are the same outlets, and some of the same reporters, who eagerly spread the false claims that the laptop was “Russian disinformation.”
Yet, what followed the testimony of FBI agent Erika Jensen was absolute crickets. There was no effort to track down the signatories of the now-debunked letter from former intelligence officials just before the election. In the letter, figures such as Leon Panetta, former CIA director in the Obama administration, claimed that the laptop had all the markings of a Russian disinformation effort by intelligence services. (Panetta continued to make the assertion even in late 2023 in pushing what the federal government is now calling a “conspiracy theory.”)
There was no attempt by the media to confront associates of the Biden campaign (including now Secretary of State Antony Blinken) who pushed a long effort to get former intelligence officials to sign a letter.
There was no attempt to question President Joe Biden, who made this false claim in the presidential election to deflect any questions about the evidence of corrupt influence peddling on the laptop.
Years ago, I wrote that the Biden campaign had pulled off the single greatest political trick in history. As I wrote back then, the key to this Houdini-esque trick was to get the media to invest in the deception like audience members called to the stage.
Houdini used to make his elephant Jennifer disappear on stage every night because he knew that the audience wanted her to disappear. They were part of the act. The Bidens made the media part of the act, and these reporters have to back the illusion or admit that they were part of the deception.
They are all laptop deniers, but they know that there are few who will call them to account for their conspiracy theory. Rather, it is social media where readers can see videos of leading media claiming that the laptop is the work of Russian intelligence.
In 2020, CBS News’ Lesley Stahl literally laughed mockingly at then-President Donald Trump when he raised the Hunter Biden laptop and what it revealed about the Bidens.
Figures like former Chief of Staff at the CIA and Department of Defense Jeremy Bash, who told MSNBC that the laptop “looked like Russian intelligence” and “walked like Russian intelligence.” He dismissed the relevance of the laptop before the election by declaring that “this effort by Rudy Giuliani and the New York Post and Steve Bannon to cook up supposed dirt on Joe Biden looks like a classic, Russian playbook disinformation campaign.”
Bash added that it made Trump an effective agent of Russian intelligence since he kept referencing the laptop: “[when] Rudy Giuliani suddenly comes forward with these mysteriously created emails, probably hacked through a Russian intelligence operation, we have to acknowledge the fact that the President of the United States is supporting, is condoning, is welcoming a Russian intelligence operation in 2020. … This is collusion in plain sight.”
Bash, like others behind the conspiracy theory, was later given an intelligence position by Biden.
The New York Times and The Washington Post both eventually verified Hunter Biden’s laptop after big tech dismissed the New York Post’s bombshell reporting during the 2020 presidential election. The Post reporting was famously censored by Twitter ahead of the 2020 election.
CNN’s Alex Marquardt told viewers, “We do know it is a very active Russian campaign.”
Indeed, the Washington Post has continued to suggest that this reporting was accurate. One of the leading purveyors of this false story was the Post’s Philip Bump, who slammed the New York Post for its now proven Hunter Biden laptop story.
In 2021, when media organizations were finally admitting that the laptop was authentic, Bump was still declaring that it was a “conspiracy theory.” Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Bump continued to suggest that “the laptop was seeded by Russian intelligence.”
After Bump had a meltdown in an interview when confronted over past false claims, I wrote a column about the litany of such false claims. The Post surprised many of us by issuing a statement that they stood by all of Bump’s reporting, including the laptop conspiracy theory. That was in August 2023.
Of course, this trick would not have been possible without the assistance of 50 former intelligence officials who were reportedly organized through Clinton campaign associates to issue the infamous letter.
These figures then continued to spread the false claim.
Former CIA Director John Brennan, one of the 50 who signed the letter, also claimed that the laptop bore “the hallmarks of Russian disinformation.”
James Clapper, a former director of National Intelligence and CNN analyst, said the laptop was “classic, textbook Soviet, Russian tradecraft at work.”
Members of Congress also repeated the false claims, including Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., who told the media not to join Giuliani as a “vehicle for Russian disinformation.”
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, insisted that the laptop was clearly “Kremlin propaganda.”
This long-debunked claim was even recently repeated in Congress by Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., who claimed that the laptop could not be authenticated even though it was just authenticated and introduced in a federal prosecution.
All of those who pushed what the U.S. government is now calling a false “conspiracy theory” have flourished in the wake of Biden’s victory. Intelligence officials like Bash received plum positions while others like Clapper were given media contracts. Schiff is expected to be elected to the Senate and is running, ironically enough, on his record with intelligence investigations of Trump.
Conversely, the New York Post and reporters like Miranda Devine have received no recognition for their work in disclosing the contents and defying attacks from politicians and media alike. While reporters were given a Pulitzer for reporting the now debunked Russian collusion story, Devine and others will never receive a Pulitzer for uncovering the true story behind the laptop.
Devine, the New York Post, and others simply refused to get in on the trick. As is often said, there are some facts simply “too good to check” in the media. The Hunter Biden laptop disappeared from the stage like Houdini’s elephant because the media wanted it to disappear.
The reappearance of the laptop in a Delaware courtroom might be awkward for most people, but not the media or intelligence officials or politicians who pushed the conspiracy theory. After all, they were all in on the trick. It was the voters who were played for chumps.
Now is the time to rescind all security clearances from the so called 51 intel experts . They were nothing more than election interference and need to pay the price for their deeds .
The left gleefully basks in their own hypocrisy.
It’s complete, total BS.
Individual mails have an embedded metacode that anyone like the FBI can verify with the servers (likely within hours) .
DIMz tried this same “fake email” GasLighting with the Podesta Emails and WikiLeaks.
Just the same way as the media talked about Mar a Largo as “Trump Selling Nuke Codes” when anybody knows that the “Presidential Nuclear Codes” are changed regularly (including, obviously, when a new POTUS takes office).
All these idiots deserve a massive Slander Case, if not prison.
What a great feeling to see the truth reported. Thank you so much for sharing. If only the media could see the article before it leaves the stage!!
People who cannot identify Russian Disinformation accurately are hired by the Biden administration and the media where they can continue to misidentify security threats. If the laptop is real, then 50 security experts don’t know what Russian Disinformation looks like.
They know. They just lied through their teeth in service of a political result in the 2020 election.
Yes, they do. This has nothing to do with them not being able to recognize Russian disinformation. They simply lied. They lied knowingly. They lied blatantly. They lied intentionally to deceive voters to help Joe Biden get elected as POTUS. They lied to defeat Donald Trump in the election. They lied to interfere in an election.
It worked and they will do it again, unless they are somehow stopped.
Worse they got to the top and are Russian agents themselves. Not out out the realm when you look at how the pentagon promotes and opm hires – its just a few levers for a long term adversary to obtain to control the gates – on who is ses and generals etc and all their promoting from within …tap next commie etc. Sure congress has to consent – but until tuberville looked person by person congress rubber stamps – but not the Cia chief per se – so yeah what’s up with them? Why’$ they sign on – but did they sign on with looking at it – or sign on cuz politics. Sad. Someone owns them for sure. Other excuses are what?
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This should be read aloud by Congressional leadership and read aloud by Donald Trump in a state of the union address and/or major press conference if he is elected to expose the corrupt intelligence community & press! This outright lying & election interference has to stop. It is destroying our country!
It will not stop until MSM (Lying Media) heads are in prison. President Lincoln had no problem putting them in prison. They ARE the ENEMY within!!
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“[D]o you see things that aren’t there because you are a delusional MAGA disciple?”
Those who deny reality always stoop to playground insults. They can’t appeal to facts, arguments, reason because they have thrown reality out the window.
The original comment was about Biden’s dementia.
To settle that issue:
Let him take a cognitive test, administered by an independent third party, with the results released to the public (before voting starts). If it’s important to know a candidate’s financial situation (via demanding his tax returns), then it’s even more important to know his mental condition (via demanding a competency exam).
When you’re trying to keep “another Hitler” out of office, what can’t you do?
Please get back on your meds you have made a fool of yourself.
Who has made a fool of himself?
“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
– William Casey, CIA Director
When and if Trump is inaugurated Jan.20, 2025, heads will begin to roll.
51 intelligence agents who signed the Russia disinformation memorandum are on Trump’s List —-
As to the observation by the Professor that Miranda Devine and the NY Post will never see a Pulitzer over their ‘laptop’ revelations, that speaks to the decline in prestige of the Pulitzer, which coincides with the decline in actual Journalism in this country.
Unfortunately, as in the first Trump go round, some of those heads will be US intelligence agents and informants out in the field. Trump asked for a list of all US agents and informants. Soon after many of our agents related to Russia were liquidated. Just more proof that he is Russian controlled, a traitor, and a threat to our national security.
Here is gigi, back as perry mason, just makin shit up again
Hey Perry, how’s the weather in Moscow?
How long will you wallow in ignorance? Aren’t you capable of thinking for yourself? Or, have you totally given your mind over to the control of those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome, who continuously spew lie after lie after lie? Doesn’t it get tiring?
You can authenticate the laptop all you want. It may or may not be Hunter Biden’s. The problem is that the laptop was in the hands of Rudy Giuliani and was made available to Russian agents.
Put another way, give your laptop to your worse enemies for 6 months. It will still be yours but who knows what you will find on it. That makes your whole article nothing but BS
PM- “the laptop . . . made available to Russian agents.” Who and when?
Edwadmahl,
“Who and when?”
Good question.
These Russian agents seem to be everywhere.
First of all, your use of Perry’s name is insulting based upon your apparent lack of the facts. An original copy of the hard drive went directly to the FBI. There was no “Rudy” tampering. Moreover, any supposition based largely on the political hatred which you exhibit for Giuliani strongly suggests your bias.
Give me your laptop or access to it. Let me put some crap on it, and the let me send it off to the FBI.
You would be in jail by nightfall.
Frankly, you guys have the brain of a peanut. Really incredible. This is why it is so easy to push you into the DJT cult.
actually the FBI got the orginal and that is what is being used in the trail today. You have zero facts on your side.
Dude, Dudette or whatever you may be.
I get great howls of laughter from your inane posts. They are highly entertaining… Thank you for that.
But please… Just Say No.
For you, your family and friends.
There is help out there somewhere for you, and it all begins with the truth.
Wishing you the best of luck.
Here gigi outs herself again. She just cant resist the word cult.
She idiotically thinks that this word shuts off debate. Thats why she closes with it so often.
“The problem is that the laptop was in the hands of Rudy Giuliani and was made available to Russian agents.”
Was Perry Mason that television lawyer who went around just makin’ shit up?
Giuliani had a copy of the hard drive, genius, not the laptop.
You do understand the difference, right???
The above “Perry Mason” is the same troll known as “Gigi”. Same verbiage, same stupidity, same low IQ, same strategy of changing the subject and attack Professor Turley. Nothing new, creative or worthwhile in their comments
And as if to prove your point, Gigi shows up out of the blue to defend “Perry Mason”. What a coincidence.
Also a coincidence that “she” is here on a saturday morning, at the same time as the spastic anon, who keeps having fits and spilling them onto the blog.
This is the funny thing about you Russpublicans. You project your mental illness 24 / 7.
That is why the Big Lie is so telling. All election fraud is from Republicans.
Like i said, just makin shit up. She cant resist.
Youve been outed perry.
what if you are wrong? if I am wrong , you are winning right now. you OWN the results.
A great job is happening right now. Is this success we are living in? I say not. Biden is literally bombing Russia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rudy-giuliani-gives-alleged-hunter-biden-hard-drive-delaware-authorities-n1244223
He had the actual hard drive or had access to it. Get off FU Fake Fox news and you might learn a few things.
Give the Kremlin access to your hard drive for a day and you would be under arrest by nightfall.
Here perry/gigi logs in under another sock puppet name, posts a link that says “a copy of the hard drive” and claims it was the original, despite the link clearly stating otherwise.
Wowsa
Now the law professor backtracks with “or had access to it”. Then she equates G having access (half brain dead) with the Kremlin having access.
It doesnt have to make any sense to just blurt it out.
If it feels good, say it. Thats Gigi’s motto.
You are an idiot
The FBI was called first.
dude…give it up already. you’re embarrassing yourself.
Are the “Russians” in the eoom with you right now?
Perry Mason, you have chosen a strange monicker since the real Perry Mason was all about getting to the truth and you seem to be all about putting your head in the sand. The FBI had the laptop, not Rudy or Russian agents. Rudy was given a copy of the hard drive. He was not in possession of the actual laptop, as that was given to the FBI months before Rudy got a copy of the hard drive.
Oh, oh, I get it! Hunter Biden turned his laptop over to a repair shop in Delaware, and the owner said to himself, “Hey, this kid looks like Joe Biden’s son! I’d better turn this over to somebody in the Trump campaign who knows Russian people!”
Even with all the evidence the Jews had that Jesus was the Messiah, they still killed Him!
The point being, no amount of evidence will EVER convince a liberal of what the TRUTH is even when it’s been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt!
The Jews are still waiting on their Messiah even though He’s been here for 2000 years and the Democrats have totally ran America into the ground with the help of demonic leadership!
Trump will be president in January 2025 and absolutely nothing can stop thst from occurring!
Wrong, rudy didn’t have it. He had copies though. NEXT!
The laptop NEVER went to Russia, Russia, Russia agents!!! That is pure liberal lies and propaganda!!!
“[Jill Biden] will be by her husband’s side throughout the campaign.”
Why is it whenever she is by his side, I keep seeing a toddler harness, with her holding the leash?
Sam: do you see things that aren’t there because you are a delusional MAGA disciple?
Does that explain why you don’t see that a fat, bloated narcissistic sociopathic liar, adjudicated rapist, fraudster, and convicted felon is panicking over the prospect of being incarcerated for his crimes?
No, Natasha.
After watching Biden at the D-Day memorial, Sam was just pointing out the facts with a humorous comment.
Here, gigi coincidentally shows up right after “Perry Mason”, whom she admitted yesterday was her favorite tv show. Coincidence??
Gigi is also the anonymous who keeps posting spastic strings of posts at random. The other night she accidentally logged in as “gigi” in the middle of one.
She also tried this “Giuliani had the laptop” horse manure a couple months ago when her pal dan goldman tried to question the authenticity with this conspiracy theory.
Adjudicate rapist
Convicted felon
Define those terms, nitwit
ABJECT PANIC HERE!
Someone has to be close at hand to change his diapers.
-JDU
Washington, D.C. – According to media reports, First Lady Jill Biden is in the middle of making several trips back-and-forth across the Atlantic in just a few short days. In at least one leg of the journey, the First Lady boarded a military aircraft in Paris to return to Delaware in order to attend court proceedings. In total, the First Lady flew between the United States and France at least three times from Wednesday through Friday.
“As Joe Biden threatens to declare a climate emergency complete with COVID-style lockdowns and punitive measures, he’s using hundreds of thousands of gallons of jet fuel at the taxpayer expense to fly his wife back-and-forth across the Atlantic,” said Daniel Turner, Founder and Executive Director for Power The Future. “The Biden climate scheme is pretty simple: working families are supposed to shut up and pay up while he and all the other hypocrites live it up.”
Presumedly, the First lady will also take another transatlantic flight to return home to the United States in the near future.
Indeed, the carbon footprint of the first family seems not to be a concern. I hope someone will verify that the first family is paying for Jill’s personal travel? The reimbursement is based upon the cost of coach travel, as I recall. Another example of “elitist” entitlement.
OT, liberals in Sacramento wanted to virtue signal so they raised the fast food minimum wage to $20.00 to supposedly help the workers. Result: already 10,000 such workers have lost their jobs, and hundreds of restaurants have closed. And more to come. Gee, thanks all you suit-wearing liberal politicians a–holes who don’t have to deal with the dystopian consequences of your pathetic virtue signaling!
https://nypost.com/2024/06/06/business/california-fast-food-restaurants-have-cut-10000-jobs-since-passing-20-minimum-wage-business-agency/
California is now a one-party state with a Dem supermajority in the legislature and a creepy Dem governor. Result: waging war on California businesses. California’s ruling class seems to really hate the businesses that economically produce for the state. Given its weather and natural resources, California should be a virtual utopia, but it is now a dumpster fire thanks to Democrats being in charge.
Oldman, what will happen when Gavin Newsom goes to the French Laundry for dinner and has to pick up his food at the counter?
Trump Had Covid During 2020 Debate
Former President Donald Trump reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus three days before the first presidential debate with Joe Biden, according to an upcoming book from Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows.
Trump tested positive on Sept. 26, 2020, three days before the Sept. 29 debate in Cleveland, reported The Guardian, which obtained a copy of Meadows’ memoir, “The Chief’s Chief,” to be published next week by conservative publisher All Seasons Press.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/01/trump-positive-covid-test-before-biden-debate/8821977002/
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This was a fascinating fact the Trump campaign attempted to hide during the 2020 campaign. The ‘positive’ status may have been an embarrassment after Trump spent so much of that year poo-pooing the dangers of covid.
This was the debate where Trump kept screaming to make sure neither Biden nor moderator Chris Wallace could ever be heard.
REGARDING ABOVE
The above West Hollywood, California 🏳️🌈 Troll has sexually transmitted infections including chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, and genital warts but without ever getting laid!!! How is that possible? He uses dirty cigarette butts, the ones gay patrons fling at him to chase him away from the WeHo bath houses
Beware getting close to his comments. Not even injecting bleach will help!
Floyd James Tom Estovir, any 8th grade bully can write the crap you write. It takes no strength or intelligence! But I suppose MAGA types mistake all that gross imagery for ‘toughness’. What a loser!
Read the room, turdrunner. You cant win here, ya idiot. Who do you suppose your audience is???
As i was looking back thru those archived blogs yesterday, I stumbled upon some with this Peter Hill character.
Now I see what everyone was talking about. He is a douchebag of the highest order, and there is no doubt that turdrunner is that guy.
Its quite amazing, the lengths these idiots will go thru just to post here. Its almost inexplicable when you consider that not one word they utter will ever have any effect. A fact freely admitted by them even as they waste their time and energy.
Peter Hill/turdrunner usually just lays his steaming turd on the stoop and leaves his sock puppets to defend it. But apparently last night he was a little tipsy, so he decided to engage. It quickly became obvious why he typically chooses not to.
So Trump wiped the Floor with Biden in a debate in which he was sick with Covid ?
Regardless, Trump does not control the microphones or their volume at a debate.
Are you saying that the League of Women voters deliberately ran up Trump’s microphone ?
Or are you saying that people with Covid speak at many times the normal volume ?
What is your argument ?
Trump caught Covid. He was in a high risk group at the time he did so.
He almost certainly received better that ordinary treatment. As I understand it he cot the Restovir and Vitamin D cocktail.
Today we know that only Vitamin D may have been efective, and all that does is make getting Covid less deadly.
Pretty much everyone knows that Biden is getting a fix before every major event. There is debate on exactly what – Meth ?
Regardless, the problem is there is nothing that can be given every day without killing him or addicting him.
If All that is being done to Biden is hitting him With B12 injections – most of us would be fine with that especially if it works.
B12 is supposed to be effective for many thjings – including memory. But it is ineffective if injected more than once every 30 days.
Regardless Trump enter the debate under far less than optimal circumstances – and still did well.
Biden would be the but of SNL skits if his problems were occasional. The fact that they are a daily thing means it is more than a gaffe – it is congative and physical decline.
“Trump campaign attempted to hide during the 2020 campaign.”
Wake me when the Biden administration releases the results of Biden’s cognitive test — for the 2024 campaign. Or the recordings of his Hur interview. Or when his handlers stop circling around him to shield the media and public from his dementia gait.