Across the media, journalists have recognized that the Hunter Biden laptop is authentic and, as established early by American intelligence agencies, not “Russian disinformation.” With the authentication of the laptop in the Delaware trial as “real” and untampered, most media has chosen to walk away with a slightly embarrassed shrug. Not the Washington Post. Its columnist, Philip Bump, was one of the most prominent purveyors of what the U.S. government now calls a “conspiracy theory.” This week, Bump ran another column to assure liberals that they were right all along about the 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, including the laptop conspiracy theory. 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.
Well, Bump is back.
In his column, Bump takes after various people calling the media to account for burying this story before and after the election, including myself. I felt that it warranted a response.
In hitting Sean Hannity for a recent segment, Bump makes a common evasion among those who have long downplayed the laptop scandal. He objected that Hannity “is conflating the laptop presented as evidence at the trial, the one obtained by the FBI in 2019, with the ‘laptop’ that was the source of the New York Post story.”
For those of us who have covered the laptop since the story ran at the New York Post, it is as maddening as it is mendacious.
At the time of the story, some of us noted that the contents of the laptop could be confirmed since these emails and messages involved third parties. Some quickly confirmed the contents as authentic. The Bidens had long been accused of influence peddling and special dealing by using Joe Biden’s positions as senator, vice president, and president.
Moreover, as the media was referencing the debunked letter of former intelligence officials on this possible likely Russian disinformation, American intelligence quickly confirmed that there was no such evidence to support that claim.
The media ignored the actual intelligence agencies in favor of former intelligence officials who were organized by Biden campaign operatives to release the letter. Biden then cited the letter to refuse to answer questions about his son’s influence peddling and unlawful conduct.
Bump and others used the question over whether the laptop was an authentic copy or a tampered copy to avoid any serious investigation into the underlying emails. Many simply threw up their hands and said “oh well, what can we do.” To this day, the media has shown little interest in the influence peddling operation. Few people seriously argue that the media would have shown the same limited response if these emails tied Trump children to millions in foreign influence peddling schemes.
But Bump was not done:
After Hannity lamented the media’s silence on the so-called “critical development,” Turley offered a theory for why that silence had ensued.
‘If the laptop is authentic, if those files are real,’ he said, “then you have these detailed accounts of a multimillion-dollar influence-peddling operation run by the Biden family. Those would also be authentic. But the media just simply doesn’t want to go there.’
Except that we already know that many of those files were real, because we got access to them and verified them. The reason the media ‘doesn’t want to go there’ on breathless claims about a ‘Biden family’ influence-peddling operation is that the material doesn’t prove any such operation. It shows — as has by now been exhaustively explained — work done by Hunter Biden and his Uncle James that involved lots of money but did not demonstrably involve President Biden. The entire point of the House Republican impeachment effort has been to prove Joe Biden’s involvement; they have been unable to do so.”
Once again, Bump makes it sound like the Post vigorously and quickly verified the laptop. The belated acknowledgement did not come until much later. It was not until March 2022 that the Post finally admitted that the laptop was real, but then did comparably little to pursue the corruption and other unlawful conduct detailed on the laptop.
Washington Post columnist Thomas Rid appeared to state the quiet part out loud by telling the media: “We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t.”
For many, the Post has alienated readers who want to see equally rigorous attention to scandals on both sides of the political aisle. Indeed, the Post’s new publisher recently dropped a truth bomb on his writers by telling them “let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
Yet, it is Bump who is insisting this week that it is Fox News (the most watched cable news network) that is being tuned out in his column titled “The right takes a Biden-laptop victory lap around an empty arena.”
In deflecting questions about the coverage of the Biden corruption scandal, Bump simply ignores witness testimony that has proven that President Biden lied about having no knowledge of his son’s foreign dealings and met with his clients both in person and over the phone. More importantly, he ignores that this was a massive influence peddling operation where President Biden was the object. He was the “brand” being sold.
Influence peddling is a form of political corruption that the government continues to denounce worldwide. The fact that millions went to Biden family members rather than the President does not change the fact that this was one of the largest influence peddling operations in history. Just this week, even Politico stated the obvious that seems to escape Bump on this elaborate Biden operation involving not just family but close associates of the President. As I explained in my testimony in the Biden impeachment hearing, federal courts have repeatedly stated that it does not matter if a principal received money as opposed to family members. It can still constitute bribery and other offenses.
In the end, Bump continues to express frustration with those who would question his conclusions, as he did in his interview when confronted by a host asking about disproven claims. Bump exploded at the hubris of the interviewer and suggested that he is all the proof that the interviewer should need on such issues: “I’m sitting here and I’m telling you, you’re wrong about these things, and you don’t listen.”
Update: Notably, after the authentication of the computer in federal court, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, filed a motion on withdraw the lawsuit against former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in which claimed that the laptop contained manipulated data.
Bump is a dishonest shill for the Left and one of the main reasons that WAPO is losing money hand over fist. What happened to their “Democracy Dies in Darkness” nonsense? Do they even realize the U.S. is not a Democracy, we’re a constitutional republic. WAPO should change their motto to, “The Democrat Party can only survive in Darkness” because covering up for Democrats is the only thing keeping them a viable political party.
anyone go to jail for the BIGGEST crime in US history the Russian Hoax Conspiracy?
Why does the GOP continue to FUND Fascist Democrats?
weird how many of the RICHEST in the world Bezo, Gates, Buffett, etc BACK total centralized power, massive propaganda, etc as Wall Street and government is LAVISHED with money to DESTROY Main Street!
time to TAKE AWAY THE MONEY….all wall street transactions or moving money offshore taxed at 5% of GROSS. Make it about INVESTING…not gambling! Centralized POWER is EVIL POWER!
Time to DEFUND Democrat Government
cut federal spending 50%
END all Federal aid to cities, states, non-profits and colleges
let Democrats FUND their own failures…instead of being REWARDED!
BTW today’s democrats/left are 1930’s European Fascists
So much for new leadership at WaPoop. On the other hand I do understand that they’ve backed themselves into a corner where the only people reading their stuff are the people who want exactly what the Bumpster and his ilk are peddling, while anybody who cared about real news has abandoned ship and isn’t coming back.
The truth is, actually paying for news is two thousand and late. You’re not going to get anything real, let alone current, from a dinosaur, particularly a print dinosaur. The genre itself is obsolete.
I used to love reading the paper and still would love it if everything weren’t so slanted. They shove the anti- Trump (and therefore anti-me) bias even into recipes and book and theater reviews. But I would still pay for news that became obsolete before it even made it to the printing press just for the pleasure of reading good writing, if the merchant weren’t constantly kicking the customer in the face.
See below as the unconvicted pedophile known as Dennis McInlyre the Draft Dodger and “brilliant attorney” demonstrates his utter ignorance and stupidity again, by claiming that Trump was found liable for “rape”.
See below for an image of the jury form, where the jury SPECIFICALLY finds that Trump did not rape her.
Its opposite day in the McInlyre household today. I guess that means it’s his nephew’s turn to cornhole Dennis.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/09/jury-verdict-form-e-jean-carroll-defamation-trial-00096059
“On the other hand I do understand that they’ve backed themselves into a corner where the only people reading their stuff are the people who want exactly what the Bumpster and his ilk are peddling. . .”
That is a way for them to deal with cognitive dissonance – find other people to make up lies so that they will not have to deal with being wrong about something. It does matter how stupid or absurd the story. That is the MS’s main job today – keep dishing out crap to the morally decrepit, intellectually lacking Democrat scum.
“Dissonance theory’s original foray into research on belief disconfirmation came from observations of a group committed to the belief that the continent would be destroyed by a flood and that they would be saved by a space ship; this event did not occur (Festinger et al., Citation1956). In response to this disconfirmation, the group intensified their beliefs in the group and began proselytizing. The first few paragraphs of Festinger et al. (Citation1956, p. 3) describe several reactions to belief disconfirmation:
A MAN with a conviction is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts or figures and he questions your sources. Appeal to logic and he fails to see your point. We have all experienced the futility of trying to change a strong conviction, especially if the convinced person has some investment in his belief. We are familiar with the variety of ingenious defenses with which people protect their convictions, managing to keep them unscathed through the most devastating attacks. But man’s resourcefulness goes beyond simply protecting a belief. Suppose an individual believes something with his whole heart; suppose further that he has a commitment to this belief, that he has taken irrevocable actions because of it; finally, suppose that he is presented with evidence, unequivocal and undeniable evidence, that his belief is wrong: what will happen? The individual will frequently emerge, not only unshaken, but even more convinced of the truth of his beliefs than ever before.”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15534510.2020.1781248
Jonathan: We are just 5 months away from probably the most consequential Presidential election in American history. Frankly, I think most voters have already made up their minds. As strange as it might sound I am not entirely happy with Joe Biden–particularly over his backing of Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians. That said, here are some things I DON’T consider qualifications for holding the highest office in the land:”;
–Someone who was impeached twice;
–A candidate who is a “convicted felon”;
–Someone who has to periodically report to his probation officer and can’t associate with known criminals–and this candidate has lots of them;
–A candidate who was adjudicated a “rapist” (twice) and has to pay the victim of his defamation $90 million dollars;
–Someone whose companies were found to have committed massive tax fraud;
–A candidate who was found liable to the tune of $450 million for persistent business fraud in NY;
–Someone who is still facing 3 different criminal prosecutions in 3 different jurisdictions;
–And finally, a candidate who engaged in a violent insurrection to overturn a free and fair election to stay in power.
So no, I won’t vote for any candidate with that rap sheet. Would you?
” I am not entirely happy with Joe Biden–particularly over his backing of Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians. “
Dennis, you should not be lying and more worried about Hamas’ genocidal war against the Gazans. Sinwar, the leader of Hamas’ fighting forces, is on video talking about how wants more Gazans to die. I doubt the Israelis intentionally killed any civilian Gazans. Still, instead, the low death count tells us that Israel is protecting Gazan’s lives, but Hamas is anxious to see as many Gazans killed as possible.
Hamas’s desire to kill the Jews and prevent the Jewish state is most apparent in the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem’s pact with the Nazis to kill Jews. That makes Dennis a Nazi.
S. Meyer,
Well said.
S. Meyer,
The UN is going after Israel and blames everything on Israel. For comparison, the UN didn’t go after Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Russian support for barrel bombing & also using chemical/biological weapons that killed over 500,000.
Most of the UN’s sanctions have been against Israel, and relatively few against countries that have committed genocide, murder, war, etc. At one time, I thought the UN had some positive features. But it didn’t take long to learn the UN was impotent. After that revelation, I knew the UN caused more harm than good.
S Meyer, I guess Dennis can add Jew Hater to his resume’. Anyone that calls a war in Gaza genocide hates Jews, it is plain and simple. They don’t call Sudan a genocide, they don’t call Syria a genocide, they don’t call China a genocide, they don’t call hamas or Iran or hezbollah genocidal, they don’t call anyone genocidal except the Jews.
Has Dennis, the Jew hater called hamas a genocidal government for actually saying they want to eliminate the Jews? Has Dennis called the mullahs genocidal? Nope, only the elected government of a nation of people that were the victims of genocide with a strong judiciary is genocidal to a Jew hater like Dennis.
“Has Dennis, the Jew hater”
Hullbobby, where Dennis is concerned I like the term Jew hater because he doesn’t have the brains to understand what an anti-Semite is.
Someone who was impeached twice and acquitted twice
“Convicted Felon” as a result of Democrat Lawfare. Who actually believes this was a fair trial? Certain to be reversed on appeal.
Someone who reports to a probation office. See “Convicted Felon” above.
A candidate who was adjudicated a rapist twice. Never convicted of rape. Will be reversed on appeal.
A candidate who was found liable to the tune of $450 million dollars. Big joke. The fine may be reduced to $1 or less.
Someone who is facing three more criminal prosecutions. Democrat Lawfare at work.
A candidate who engaged in violent insurrection. This is the biggest joke of all. Simply not true.
YES I WILL BE VOTING FOR DONALD J. TRUMP.
You are going to vote for Joe? Feeble minded and quite obviously unfit for office. He can launch nuclear weapons (if someone else gives him the launch codes). Remember a vote for Joe is the same as a vote for Kamala as president. A do nothing cackling worthless politician.
“I think most voters have already made up their minds.”
Dennis McInlyre, who said last week in his Supermarket Tabloid, that polls at this time mean nothing.
LMAO you can’t make this shit up.
So no, I won’t vote for any candidate with that rap sheet. Would you?
And 85 million people replied…..”YES!”
particularly over his backing of Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians.
Its not a war, you fcking spastic non savant. Its a months long hostage rescue operation from the terrorists holding said hostages.
Reality…It’s so inconvenient for shit stains like Dennis.
Absolutely! Not least because virtually everything you’ve mentioned is democratic lawfare against a sitting president and now the leading presidential contender for 2024. I decide long ago that pretty much everything a democrat says about anyone else actually applies to democrat politicians and democrat voters. Isn’t it interesting that a survey showed that 7% of the American population would cheat to win an election but 67% of the “1%” defined as Ivy League graduates making over $150,000 per year (almost all democrats) are willing to cheat. I’ll bet that includes you given your persistent, mendacious, posts.
It’s sad that a column on the corruption and cover up by the media of the Biden family kicks in your TDS. Just sad
The 2024 Presidential election is a referendum on lawfare, and I’m not voting for lawfare.
I don’t particularly like Trump, but even if I hated him he’d be president for only four years. If I vote to ratify the corruption that is lawfare, the damage that would do to our system of governance would last forever.
Something that sucks for four years wouldn’t suck as bad as something that sucks forever.
Dennis and his ilk are a very real existential threat to our country.
FBI Agent Fox Mulder often consults with his computer geek buddies.
Post columnist, Philip Bump a true nerd gives the Post, shall I say a Bump in readership.
Dear Mr. Turley, Folks like Mr. Bump will always be among us. There are still people who believe Hitler was a great man. There are still people singing the praises of Chairman Mao. We have people in the Democratic Party who believe that Communism is a wonderful thing and are not embarrassed to given themselves the title of Democratic-Socialist. With all of the evidence of multiple millions of people killed by these various despots and their systems, people still sing their praises. An attempt at reasoning with these twisted minds is impossible. Mr. Bump, like so many of his ilk, will go down into the dust bin of history, only to be forgotten.
Why does this entire thing with Mr. Bump feel like a Monty Python routine? “The laptop is real. No it’s not! Yes it is! No it’s not! The Intelligence agency said it was! No they didn’t!”
If the Post continues down this path they will be reporting on Bat Boy from The Weekly World News and end up in the same place.
Defunct
LMAO Svelaz George is the pet shop owner.
“Naw naw, it’s not dead. It’s restin’!!”
LOL
I’m a qualified brain surgeon, I only do this because I like bein’ me own boss
—–Dennis the Draft Dodger McIntyre
Dennis learned and used his own brain for practice and learning.
On a newspaper filled with propagandists and liars, Bump might well be the worse. He is outright despicable. I shall never forget his rooting for the sister of the N. Korean dictator at the South Korean Olympics. When she “dissed” Trump in public, Bump wrote “Go girl go”. He is truly the scum of the earth.
I can’t think of any legitimate reason any publishing outlet would want Philip Bump on their staff. He has done extensive damage to the reputation of The Washington Post, and they still have him on their staff. Does he have some illicit pictures of the publisher hidden away?
Jonathan: You have a problem with Philip Bump at the WP. The whole point of Bump’s column was that the authenticated laptop hard drive only establishes that Hunter and his uncle made money from their business dealings overseas. Nothing on the laptop shows Joe Biden was involved in his son’s business activities nor did he financially benefit from them. Your claim falls apart because neither of the “two Jims” have proved any of your claims. As Bump points out in his column: “The entire point of the House impeachment effort has been to prove Joe Biden’s involvement; they have been unable to do so”.
That’s the argument you lost with Bump months ago. I suggest you let it go and move on!
Jonathan: You have a problem with Philip Bump at the WP.
LMAO What a douche.
Irony, its a terrible thing to waste.
Dennis: You have a problem with Jonathan Turley at the Res ipsa loquitur
I suggest you let it go and move on!
WELL SAID!
I looked up the definition of ‘crazy’ and saw a picture of Dennis.
And no, George, I am not Waters.
LOL
It seems to me the point of these kinds of bald-face lies coming from people like Bump is to get us distracted talking about peripheral Biden issues and have less time to talk about the central point: the entire BIden family is one big bribery-based crime syndicate. Ask yourself how they got so rich. It’s not like they produce anything. Biden’s game from day one has been to build a Mafia family by using his position in government to sell influence. He and his family get rich while the interests of ordinary Americans like you and me are sold to the highest bidder. BIden’s plan has succeeded spectacularly even if he is now non compos mentis.
I resent that. His mentis is definitely compost
“ Other news outlets were not given access to the material at the time of the initial report. (Giuliani told the New York Times he was worried its journalists would “spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out.”) When The Washington Post finally got access to the material in 2022, we were able to verify some of it as authentic. There was also evidence, though, that the material on the hard drive that went from Giuliani to the New York Post was moved around with some information added. Even Mac Isaac warned that material being attributed to “the laptop” was not on the laptop when he undertook the file recovery process.”—Philip Bump.
The whole laptop story is rife with problems, but that doesn’t stop Turley or Hannity from pressing on with the false narrative that all the content has been verified. It’s still comes down to the problem of chain of custody which is not discussed by either of them.
What the prosecution presented was a laptop with a matching serial number and an iCloud account with some of the information that has not been verified to come from the original source, the laptop.
George is Philip Bump
I noticed the relatively passive commenter who went by “Concerned Citizen” disappeared around the same time as the opinionated new “George” began polluting the blog.
“Concerned citizen” had his own MO. He would passively ask a question (usually a sea lion) as though he were looking for an honest answer. Then he would respond to his own question with a sock puppet. I suspect he was turdrunner/Bug. They use certain tactics for awhile, then get bored and move to the next.
George is Svelaz. In a previous post, I have shown 21 ways that he outed himself.
I can link to no less than 20 posts from Svelaz, where he starts the reply with “LOL” and ends it with “You have a reading comprehension problem”. Just in the past few days, “George” has done this several times.
Svelaz also had the habit of, when nailed on a single point, he would start bringing up other points to try and deflect, NEVER conceding he was wrong on anything. Pure George, all day, every day. I don’t see how their identical spastic behaviors could be coincidence.
For instance. When I referred to a specific poll about approval ratings, “George” quickly proved his ignorance by conflating it with an earlier poll I presented about the national election numbers. When I called him out for his mistake, he gaslit with “Both polls are about approval ratings, you didn’t know that?” Vintage Svelaz.
Svelaz George is PB
Do not respond to him
“The whole laptop story is rife with problems”
Nothing used from the laptop has been shown false, and the Bidens haven’t denied that they were original to the computer. New George spouts words but doesn’t know what he is saying. Therefore, he lies and has no Credibility.
“still comes down to the problem of chain of custody”
George’s words are a clear reflection of his lack of comprehension. He seems to believe that copying and pasting other people’s ideas makes him sound intelligent, but it only exposes his inability to grasp the situation. His inability to connect two ideas further focuses on his lack of Credibility.
“What the prosecution presented was a laptop “
George’s memory seems to be selective when it comes to the details surrounding the laptop. His inability to recall and confirm the laptop’s truth raises serious doubts about the reliability of his claims. George is not Credible.
WELL SAID!
George admitted using Dem talking points as an ‘opposing view’.
Not seeing that the MORE he ‘cries wolf’ the LESS anyone buys into it.
George did the same thing when he posted as Svelaz. He would spend the entire morning posting his talking points and say the opposite of anything anyone said, often repeating it several times. He also excused his contrarian horse manure as just “an opposing view”. Exact same words.
He would spend the afternoon trying his best to substantiate, backwalk, excuse his uneducated posts, while simultaneously trying to educate himself on the subject he ignorantly blathered about in the morning.
Like most lefty commenters, he starts with a conclusion, and then looks for something to support it.
That’s why he says stuff like:
Nonviolent felons cannot be barred from owning a gun according to Bruen.
——-Svelaz George
From Bruen:
“Our holding decides nothing about who may lawfully possess a firearm or the requirements that must be met to buy a gun”
S. Meyer,
He keeps cutting and pasting from that non-credible site.
WELL SAID!
“The whole laptop story is rife with problems”
George, the laptop can be used in court. The Bidens have not contested any portion of the laptop used as not being original to the laptop. You have no Credibility.
I am puzzled by Turley’s formulation “The fact that the money went to family and not Joe”. I don’t think that’s an established fact at all. Who was the Big Guy who got 10%? You can say it has not been conclusively proven that Joe got money, but you can’t say it’s an established fact that he didn’t either.
“ Washington Post columnist Thomas Rid probably was the most honest when he wrote said the quiet part out loud by telling the media: “We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t.”
They HAD to. The professor seems to keep forgetting that Russian was actively trying to influence the election. This was confirmed on the Mueller report. What the intelligence community had plenty of and the right-wing media did not is a healthy dose of skepticism. Turley and the rest of right-leaning media simply went along with it. Never questioning it or showing doubt. Which is what any Russian intelligence agency would depend on to succeed. Ignorance was their best tool and they used it to great effect.
And here’s George again spreading his ignorance, having no effect.
You seem to ignore that the FBI had authenticated the laptop in 2019 yet said nothing when the prevaricating 51 intimated that it was not.
George is Philip Bump
George/Svelaz is PB.
Do not respond to him
Mueller did not investigate the 2020 election. And the FBI had the laptop in 2019
“They HAD to. The professor seems to keep forgetting that Russian was actively trying to influence the election.”
Another bogus claim by George, who has no Credibility. Russian influence was minor, and it was the Democrats who played games with the Russians.
“This was confirmed on the Mueller report.”
The existence of minimal Russian interference had little to do with the election and less to do with favoring Trump. George continues to lose Credibility.
“What the intelligence community had plenty of and the right-wing media did not is a healthy dose of skepticism. “
The intelligence community was proven wrong, and the right was proven correct. The intelligence community lost a lot of Credibility, something George lacks.
” Ignorance was their best tool and they used it to great effect.”
Ignorance is George’s tool, which he uses so much that he has no Credibility.
I have no doubt Bump is one of the crazy cats on this blog. Perhaps more than one. I’m going with Gigi/George.
Gigi’s too in the weeds with her TDS.
Crazy is a good word for it.
Partisan liars like Bump are the kind of person
she, George, Dennis, etc. stand behind, though.
It’s always about trying to steer the narrative.
Not actual facts or fairness or justice.
Even Jim Jones got 700+ people to drink kool aid laced with poison…
all Leftists!
Instinctively from first hearing about the laptop in 2019 before the election (and I guess by then too late because of early voting–that IMHO is too early), I felt the laptop was real. You posted a statement by Bump “The entire point of the House Republican impeachment effort has been to prove Joe Biden’s involvement; they have been unable to do so.”” Change the wording and think of 2016-2020 and beyond— The entire point of the House Democrat impeachment effort has been to prove Trump’s involvement in (fill in the blank); they have been unable to do so.
People, before you vote make sure you do your research. Don’t vote too early. Something may pop up.
“ With the authentication of the laptop in the Delaware trial as “real” and untampered, most media has chosen to walk away with a slightly embarrassed shrug.”
LOL!!
Professor Turley is wrong. What happened at the trial was not an authentication of the entirety of the contents of the laptop. A small detail he neglects to mention. The only thing the prosecution authenticated was the serial number. The FBI agent questioned on the stand did not analyze the laptop or its contents.
He also forgets about the problem regarding the chain of custody. Only a few emails have been confirmed to be authentic, but a host of others have not. Rudy Giuliani made several copies of the hard drive and it has been shown content has been added. At trial the FBI did not confirm that the contents of the laptop were not tampered with.
Philip Bump nakedly pointed out Turley’s disingenuous characterization of the facts. The point of the laptop was that it was supposed to provide evidence President Biden committed one or more impeachable offenses. Constantly pushing the ‘influence peddling’ narrative despite it not being an illegal activity as if it somehow were. The reason the professor pushes back forcefully is because Bump is more direct in exposing the professor’s disingenuousness.
Dwelling on the authenticity of the laptop without ever diving into the excruciating technical details and expert analysis of the sources of data and tell tale signs of possible tampering SHOULD be part of Turley’s bag of evidence supporting his claim is intended to leave his less than knowledgeable readers with the impression that that’s all there is to it. It’s not.
When the existence of the laptop was first reported it was during the time Trump and the Russians were quite cozy and having sketchy meetings in Trump tower. Rudy Giuliani was already looking for dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine and other places. Trump was openly asking Russia to ‘help’ hack Hillary’s emails and they clearly and happily obliged.
The U.S. intelligence community who has been monitoring Russian attempts to interfere or influence the election had plenty of suspicion and well honed hunches about what methods and sources they could use to inject information to produce scandals and controversies. As many media figures on the right and Turley, naivety was in full force and still is.
Keep trying
George is Philip Bump
Do not respond
“and it has been shown content has been added”
Who, what, and when?
And Trump was yanking Hillary’s chain about her insecure private server, assuming that Russians had hacked it, back when she was SOS, and that they had a copy of her 33,000 missing emails. Our media would surely pay for a copy
George Turley is correct when he says, “With the authentication of the laptop in the Delaware trial as “real” and untampered,” The laptop was considered real. If you can prove something wrong, go ahead, but your words are meaningless. You have no Credibility.
“The only thing the prosecution authenticated was the serial number. “
That is a lie, further telling everyone you have no Credibility.
“The FBI agent questioned on the stand did not analyze the laptop or its contents.”
So what? What is your point? You have none. You are merely using ignorant rhetoric to cover up your failures. You are not Credible.
If the first one out of six paragraphs is debunked, does one have to debunk the other five? No. You already proved you aren’t Credible.
Svelaz George joins the ranks of Gigi, Bug, and Dennis
The laptop is fake
Alpha Bank is real
The peetape is real
“Professor Turley is wrong. . . .”
If you want to see how a sophist operates, read the entirety of that comment.
Its MO is: Sow doubt, by hook or by crook.