The 'smoking gun' email in the NY Post story — even if it is authentic, given the massive red flags — doesn't actually say what the story says it does.
Again, stipulating that the suspect email is real, there's literally nothing in it that says Joe Biden met with a Burisma adviser.
"The opportunity to meet," may just as easily have meant Hunter promised a meeting in the future that may never have occurred.
Lastly, if such a meeting occurred, it should be pretty easy to pinpoint with accuracy when and where, which would seem an important part of reporting a story like this before blasting out the innuendo — especially given the suspect actors involved.
Important addendum: Nothing about the premise of the story adds up. Every credible source has testified that the prosecutor involved was fired because he was *not* investigating corruption and removing him made it likelier Burisma would face a real probe.
@NatashaBertrand "This is a Russian disinformation operation. I’m very comfortable saying that,” said Michael Carpenter, a former Pentagon aide and official at the Penn Biden Center.
@NatashaBertrand But by Wednesday afternoon, Republicans — who still haven't confronted the problematic Post story itself — united to condemn Twitter/Facebook's move to limit access to the story.
@NatashaBertrand The Biden camp and his longtime aides said they couldn't rule out a Pozharskyi interaction w Biden on the sidelines of a broader US-UKR conference, where selfies and handshakes are common.
But they're unaware of one, and it would've been cursory if it happened at all, they said.
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NEW: PELOSI and Rep. RASKIN plan to introduce legislation tomorrow to establish a commission under the 25th Amendment charged with evaluating the president's mental/physical capacity.
RASKIN has already filed very similar legislation. It creates a congressional body (which is actually contemplated in the 25th amendment itself) made up of doctors, psychiatrists and former executive branch officials to make judgments if a president's health is failing.
Here is that Raskin bill, which tomorrow's 25th amendment announcement will be based on: congress.gov/bill/115th-con…
NEW: The FBI has unsealed details of an alleged plot by militia members to kidnap Gov. WHITMER — the conspirators had staked out her vacation home, obtained explosives and other equipment, preparing to execute it before the electon.
The FBI first began tracking the militia involved in early 2020, but the plot came together by June. Confidential sources recorded conversations among the participants and gave the FBI access to their communications
COMEY sworn in for his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning.
GRAHAM keeps misstating Carter Page's relationship with the CIA. He was an "operational contact" which is different than a "source" or someone being "tasked" by the CIA.
Comey keeps pointing this out.
Here is the explicit distinction, as explained in the Horowitz report. Being an operaitonal contact "does not allow for operational use of a U.S. person or tasking of that person." justice.gov/storage/120919…
???: DNI Ratcliffe has declassified a Russian intelligence assessment — which Ratcliffe says could be false or exaggerated — to suggest Clinton hatched a plan to pin Russian hacking onto Trump.
I'm still wrapping my head around the idea that DNI just publicly released what it acknowledges in untested 2016 Russian intelligence chatter to raise derogatory questions about Hillary Clinton — which of course was Russia's goal when it was doing the chattering.
The substance aside: It's more evidence that Durham is not preparing to bring charges related to any of this. Anything is possible, but it would be extraordinary for Durham to allow evidence like this to go onto the public record if he was preparing related indictments.