A prediction: The Hunter Biden laptop story is going to end up being pretty big as it plays out over the next week or two. Not because of the contents of the (putative) e-mails or Hunter’s sex tapes, which are nothingburgers even if authentic—but because of Giuliani’s role.
By Monday, nobody but the fever swamps will be talking about the contents of the hard drive. We WILL be talking about whether this was a foreign info op, and how much Trump knew about Giuliani’s decision to accept stolen communications and send them to the NY Post.
In the unlikely event the NY Post’s narrative of where the laptop came from is basically accurate, Giuliani’s actions still look appalling, and if Trump knew & approved reflect badly on him. If that narrative is a cover for an info op, things look substantially worse...
... because then Giuliani is either a guileless dupe who missed the huge red flags that were obvious to every other remotely clueful person who read the story, or a witting participant who simply decided to ignore them.
Also presumably at some point people will notice how appalling it is that Giuliani chose to distribute sexually explicit videos of Biden’s son? I feel like if the Biden campaign had sent MSNBC an Ivanka sex tape, people would perhaps have issues with this.
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