At 5:00 am on Wednesday, 14 October 2020, just under three weeks before the US Presidential election voting day, many people had already taken advantage of early voting options, a story appeared in America’s fourth largest, and oldest, newspaper, the New York Post, the paper founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1801.
The story was entitled Biden’s Secret Emails. It drew on the data from Hunter Biden’s laptop, that he’d dropped in for repairs to John Paul Mac Isaac’s computer repair shop (just 3 kilometres from Joe Biden’s home) on 12 April 2020. Hunter Biden never returned to pick it up – which wasn’t unusual for him. Miranda Devine, of the New York Post, investigated Steve Mac Isaac’s claim that he had Hunter Biden’s laptop. After doing a due diligence, she was satisfied of the authenticity of the laptop and the information contained on it.
The article that was published was written by Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge.
This was an article of vital concern to the American electorate. Their votes would decide if Donald Trump continued in the White House for another four years, or if he was voted out of office and in his place 77 year old Joe Biden would be the President.
The story was immediately, and majorly, trending on social media. Facebook pulled the plug on the story 5 hours later and Twitter followed.
Five days later, on 19 October, 2020, 50 former, senior intelligence officials, led by the man who had been the Obama administrations appointee as CIA director, John Brennan, released a letter which said of the information that
The drive, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.
We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to The New York Post by President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement. But there are a number of factors that make us suspicious of Russian involvement.
Such an operation would be consistent with Russian objectives, as outlined publicly and recently by the Intelligence Community, to create political chaos in the United States and to deepen political divisions here but also to undermine the candidacy of former Vice President Biden and thereby help the candidacy of President Trump....
A 'laptop op' fits the bill, as the publication of the emails are clearly designed to discredit Biden.
The US intelligence service had been monitoring Hunter Biden during the years that Joe Biden was Vice President between 2009 and 2017. They knew all about the wheeling and dealing activities that he‘d been up to on behalf of his dad, Joe. I discussed these in Parts 23 and 24 of this series.
They knew that Joe had been using his son as his front to do business with the Chinese, the Russians and the Ukrainians and Joe was a friend to those regimes. They also knew that Donald Trump, when he became President, had been tough with China and Russia. The election, putting Joe into the White House, offered the best possibility for those regimes to resume normal business. They would definitely not be helping Donald Trump to win office.
So long story short, the intelligence people hadn’t even looked at the Hunter Biden laptop, but they didn’t need to. They knew what the New York Post story was saying was true. But boy, did their letter of 19 October pull the legs from under that lethal Hunter Biden Laptop story.
The letter included the following killer material, in addition to what I quoted above:
Our view that the Russians are involved in the Hunter Biden email issue is consistent with two other significant data points as well. According to the Washington Post, citing four sources, “U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence.”
In addition, media reports say that the FBI has now opened an investigation into Russian involvement in this case. According to USA Today, “…federal authorities are investigating whether the.