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[Claustrum]

1. Supposedly, the laptop is handed to FBI for investigation.

But the investigation that FBI said they are doing is to investigate if it's a Russian disinformation.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Only alleged, nothing verified. Nt

[Beakybird]

3. My guess is that these were Hunter's files that were hacked from Burisma

and then the Russians or Trump people put these files on a laptop that they claimed was Hunter Biden's laptop. Then they added fake files and pictures.

[brush]

16. Bingo. There was a laptop but it wasn't Hunter's.

[ananda]

20. But I bet Hunter has had a laptop somewhere, sometime...

So do I.

Gosh, I feel so dirty and guilty.... should I
call the FBI and confess?

!@#$%

[brush]

26. You and me both. I've had a laptop too.

[yardwork]

31. I have a laptop but my employer provided it for my use.

Does this mean my employer is being investigated by the FBI?

I also have emails. Lots of them. Is it safe to post that here?

[question everything]

24. Thank you. This makes sense

If this was a TV mystery program, that repair shop would have a CCTV documenting who came there..

[soothsayer]

4. No

Hunter did not drive drunk from his home in CA to DE to drop off up to 3 water damaged laptops using a forged signature and no contact information, then fail to retrieve them from the legally blind drumpf-loving Mac repair guy.

Rudy, in a photo, displays an LG laptop — not even a Mac.

So no, no, a thousand times, no. No.

[question everything]

29. Supposedly it was delivered on April 2019

Did Hunter live in CA then?

[yardwork]

32. Do we know if this is the real Hunter Biden?

Is it his doppelgänger?

[soothsayer]

39. Exactly. Possibly a clone.

[yardwork]

43. Maybe a lizard person. Wait. Is Mitch McConnell ever seen with Hunter Biden?

[Midnight Writer]

41. It was James O'Keefe wearing a William Shatner Halloween mask.

[yardwork]

44. And the legally blind Mac repairman - who accepted a Dell to repair - thought it was Cher.

[soothsayer]

38. It wouldn't matter. They'd say he walked to DE to avoid a paper trail

They’d say a robot Hunter was in CA and the real one was in DE.

You can’t argue with lunatics.

[Rice4VP]

33. Exactly. Why would anyone go cross

country to get a laptop fixed?

[yardwork]

45. There aren't that many legally blind Mac repairmen who accept Dells.

I mean, be fair. Maybe this guy was the only one!

[ScratchCat]

5. It surprises me that nobody wants to address this

Either he dropped off a laptop or he didn't. I don't think he did, because it make no sense. So why not say something to the effect that "this is completely laughable because I've never been to a computer repair store in Delaware" ? Its almost an admission that something about the story is correct.

FWIW, I think its pretty clear the emails are doctored emails they got from the Russian hack of Burisma and they probably made up the "laptop repair store" angle to cover for the crime that was committed to get the emails.

[yellowcanine]

7. Maybe he doesn't want to start down the rabbit hole.

I don't blame him. Trying to prove a negative can be hard. Let the FBI figure it out. Oh and he well may have been at that computer store. May even have brought a laptop for repair. Still doesn't mean THIS laptop is his. See what I mean about the rabbit hole?

[question everything]

27. I kinda listened to a program - CBS morning show? - where several undecided women

were asked and at least one mentioned Hunter, "just as Don Jr."

Not that one or two women should determine the course of the campaign, though

[soothsayer]

8. I think you just don't give this type of nonsense oxygen

Don’t breathe life into it. Let it die under the weight of its own stupidity.

[exboyfil]

13. Yes even if you demonstrate that Rudy G etc. lied about one part of the story

You just open up another question. It never ends (see Clinton where where legitimate questions about the security of the Libyan ambassador morphed into a fishing exhibition). In her case she was obligated to answer questions because of her position as SoS. Hunter Biden has no such obligation.

[ScratchCat]

17. I agree with a "not dignifying it with a response" response

But at the same time, standing in front of a camera and pointing out how incredibly stupid the story is(California vs Delaware, blind guy, BBF Sticker on it, he never came back for the lap top, etc...) would shut it down completely.

(again, I doubt many people who watch FNC even believe it because its so ridiculous, but still, shut it down)

[soothsayer]

25. I think it's shut

[moose65]

10. I thought of that too

The whole story is ridiculous. Maybe this is another case of Democrats not commenting because the story is obvious bullshit.

Here are things that could be said:

Hunter lives in Los Angeles. Why would he take a laptop all the way across the country to a repair shop owned by a man who is legally blind, who was going to charge him $85 to fix it, and then after he traveled cross-country and dropped it off, he never came back to get it? No one in their right mind would do such a silly thing.

Do they have his signature on something? Did he pay for the service? Is it standard procedure for a repair shop to make a copy of all the files on a hard drive?

Maybe it's just me, but if I had been involved in some shady business dealings with a foreign government, I wouldn't entrust my laptop to a total stranger 3,000 miles away who was charging me a ridiculously low rate to "fix" my machine.

[question everything]

30. Did he live in LA in April 2019 when it was delivered? I just don't know

[moose65]

35. I don't know

I can't find out any information on that, at all.

[brewens]

14. If Rudy came back from Ukraine with the goods on hunter, we'd have seen it a long time ago.

It took them awhile to gin this up. If someone got my laptop, it would be real easy to verify it was actually mine. There is no way they thought of everything to make it look legit. I'm no puter guru, but I even know there are all the time stamps and stuff on emails and files.

I hear the Mac repair guys video surveillance just happened to be on the fritz too. So no vid of a guy looking like Hunter at the shop.

[PTWB]

15. No, they timed the release for maximum impact.

[brush]

22. Right. They thought this was the October surprise like Comey's letter was...

about Weiner's laptop.

Hey, it worked last time. Only this time was too stupid to be believed. Rudy needs to cut down on the booze.

[unblock]

23. I think the way to do this is to stay out of the details and hit the *zero credibility* meme

Just say it's a complete fabrication, just another made up republicans fantasy scandal based on nothing and amounting to nothing.

The only scandal here is that the media still gives these things serious attention, as if republicans had any credibility whatsoever when it came to scandals about democrats. They need democratic scandals to win, so they fabricate them because their policies are so unpopular, that's all they have.

[Iggo]

40. Because engaging makes it worse.

Even though I just did.

[stonecutter357]

6. trump is a racist pig .

[greenjar_01]

9. You still on this shit?

[snowybirdie]

11. Well he lived

in California and allegedly left the laptop in a shop in Delaware. Also he forgot to pick it up. We report, you decide.

[Marius25]

12. No.

[Spazito]

18. Nope, there is nothing there...

everything tucker rudy and his buds have been saying is being proven to be nonsense.

[Klaralven]

19. If there were, any laptop used in travel to Ukraine, Russia, China, etc. is completely untrustworthy

[maxsolomon]

21. There was a laptop.

The FBI took it. There's a receipt.

Beyond that, nothing is verified.

[comradebillyboy]

28. If Trump had kept Comey on as FBI director then

Big Jim could have rewarded Trump with another October surprise re the phoney laptop story.

[question everything]

34. What We Know and Don't About Hunter Biden and a Laptop - NYT

(snip)

How did the laptop surface?

A computer repair shop owner in Wilmington, Del., named John Paul Mac Isaac has said Hunter Biden left a damaged Apple computer at his shop in April 2019 and asked to recover any data. Mr. Isaac said in an interview with The New York Times last week outside the shop that he is legally blind and could not be sure whether the man was Hunter Biden but asked his name to fill out a work order, and the man identified himself as Hunter Biden. Mr. Isaac said the man came to his shop twice but never returned to retrieve the computer or an external hard drive on which its contents had been stored.

At some point, he decided to examine the material, calling it “alarming” and “embarrassing” but declining to discuss specifics. Mr. Isaac also said he made a copy of the computer’s contents.

How did the F.B.I. learn about the laptop?

Mr. Isaac said he told the bureau. He said he eventually decided to contact the F.B.I. after he began fearing for his safety because he knew what was on the laptop, which The New York Post said included a graphic video. “If I was somebody important, I would want to keep some of this stuff private,” he said. “Nobody wants their dirty laundry aired.”

Mr. Isaac said he met with F.B.I. agents in late 2019 and provided them with a timeline of events. The agents returned about two weeks later in mid-December with a grand jury subpoena allowing them to seize the laptop and the external hard drive. The subpoena was signed by a federal prosecutor in the U.S. attorney’s office in Wilmington who handles criminal investigations such as fraud, and Mr. Isaac acknowledged receiving it.

The agents also gave him a receipt for what they took, according to a photograph of it published by Fox News. The receipt included an F.B.I. code, 272D, the bureau’s internal classification for money laundering investigations, and “BA” for its Baltimore field office. Officials separately confirmed that the F.B.I. seized the laptop and an external hard drive as part of an investigation, though they did not detail the inquiry or whether it involved money laundering or Hunter Biden. They also confirmed that the agent who signed the receipt works in Wilmington and is overseen by the Baltimore office.

(snip)

What don’t we know?

A lot. Mr. Isaac, who said he voted for Mr. Trump in 2016, declined to answer many questions about the laptop and his contacts with the F.B.I. He also would not talk about his communications with the Trump loyalists who orchestrated the plan to make the computer’s contents public just before the election.

It is also not clear what the F.B.I. did with the laptop or what Justice Department officials knew about the sensitive F.B.I. investigation at the time. F.B.I. officials have declined to discuss the inquiry.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/hunter-biden-laptop.html

[yardwork]

36. Sounds like complete bullshit to me.

[Buckeyeblue]

37. Laptops are a dime a dozen

He wouldn't pay to have one fixed. He'd buy a new one.

[yardwork]

46. Especially if he made millions in Ukraine.

[LisaL]

42. I don't believe that Hunter Biden took his laptop to some guy in Delaware to fix.

My guess it that some of his information was hacked and planted on a laptop (together with false information) and then taken to that guy in Delaware.

[yardwork]

47. Or maybe the guy in Delaware is just saying what he's been paid to say.

His story is.... odd. He receives some water damaged laptops from a customer who doesn't sign any paperwork, just mumbles that his name is, probably, Hunter Biden. No contact info. The laptops are not Macs, but this Mac repairman accepts them and repairs them anyway.

The customer - who may or may not be Hunter Biden, since for some reason the repairman never collected any customer contact info - never returns.

Months later the repairman starts looking around in the files on the computer or computers (not clear to me how many computers feature in this story).

The repairman says he finds things that shock and upset him. So he sits on it for more months. Long about the time Joe Biden wraps up the nomination, the repairman gives the computers to the FBI. He says. We have no proof of this. And then nothing happens.

So the repairman then gives the computer files he's saved (he copied upsetting and shocking information from a customer's computer? Why? Isn't that against the law, on several levels?), anyway he gives the files to... Rudy Giuliani?! Why?! How does he know Rudy?

It's laughable.