US authorities investigating if recently published emails are tied to Russian disinformation effort
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Source: CNN
The conservative-leaning New York Post claimed in a series of articles this week that it obtained "smoking-gun" emails about Hunter Biden and his dealings in Ukraine. CNN has not determined the authenticity of the emails.
President Donald Trump and his allies have used this topic to smear the Bidens over the past year and seized on the recent articles to attack Biden in the final weeks of the presidential election. The specific new allegations touch on the same topics as the Kremlin's ongoing disinformation campaign against the Bidens, which the US intelligence community said this summer was intended to weaken Biden's candidacy against Trump.
The FBI is leading the investigation, the official and congressional source said. NBC was first to report the inquiry.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/16/politics/russian-disinformation-investigation/index.html
Poor Donald Trump; it's SO hard to get good help these days...
SWBTATTReg
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(22,670 posts)Good, take the New York Post down with you, you piece of shit!
Illumination
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We have 21% of the cases.
We have 20% of the deaths.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
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(37,329 posts)I would not be going after other people's kids.
applegrove
(118,655 posts)Alert: duplicate post
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