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David CornIn preparation of Elon Musk's report on the Hunter Biden laptop and Twitter, please read my original piece on the laptop. The big issue was that the NY Post & Rudy Giuliani were using the existence of the laptop & iffy material on it to advance Russian disinfo that had been concocted to hurt Biden & help Trump. Giuliani was even working with a Russian agent to spread this false info. The laptop was part of this larger op.
June Casagrande@DavidCorn Rudy's Kremlin connection hooked up the vulnerable son of a sitting VP with a too-good-to-be-true opportunity. Or does anyone believe Hunter photographed himself unconscious & saved the pics to his hard drive? https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/24/hunter-biden-hard-drive-lev-parnas-432108
@Lee_in_Iowa@DavidCorn Glad to find you here! Like many liberals with large accounts, I got suspended from the Bird site for no detectable reason.
Robyn@Lee_in_Iowa glad to see you here!
@ballerinaoaf hello hello and welcome to our new home! Feel free to crib my Following list. After Musk started screwing up twitter, I made it a mission to find all our peeps who have accounts over here. And I followed them.
@Lee_in_Iowa that makes me so happy, thank you!! 😭 I will be scouring lol I was just saying how happy seeing familiar avatars on my feed at the other place made me on hard days
Scubaval 
@ballerinaoaf @Lee_in_Iowa following you both now.
toxtethogrady@Lee_in_Iowa @DavidCorn There is a detectable reason. Its name is Andy Ngo...
@toxtethogrady @DavidCorn I did wonder about Mr. Ngo.
@Lee_in_Iowa @DavidCorn I want to know if Ngo is being paid by Musk. If his paycheck comes from Twitter, it's coming from Tesla, and the shareholders have a right to know if that's how the company's money is being used...
Jake Jarvis 
@DavidCorn the former tweeps he's going "expose" likely made their decisions based on well-researched articles just like this one. so why is he pretending to know something that both they and journalists like you didn't?
it's embarrassingly transparent... but unfortunately, it'll probably work. 🤡
Tracy@DavidCorn Yes, Trump & Guiliani were trying to dig up & manufacture dirt on Hunter Biden to harm Pres Biden's chance of becoming president at the time.
Trump even held back allocated Congressional funds to Ukraine in an attempt to force Pres Zelenskyy to "just make an announcement" regarding dirt on Hunter.
#Sabotage
Trump is capable of doing literally ANYTHING to retain the power & control of the presidency. Even TREASON.
Trump even held back allocated Congressional funds to Ukraine in an attempt to force Pres Zelenskyy to "just make an announcement" regarding dirt on Hunter.
#Sabotage
Trump is capable of doing literally ANYTHING to retain the power & control of the presidency. Even TREASON.
Amish Super Model@DavidCorn I have a friend in the DIA who shared this with me about Russia’s master plan, written in 1997. Haven’t even read the book yet, but the Wikipedia summary is enough to understand the big picture around Russian influence.
DemocracyMatters 
@Amishsupermodel @DavidCorn Wow. We're living it.
@DemocracyMatters @DavidCorn It’s a stunning read isn’t it? Country by country.
Brian Grinter@DavidCorn @donmelton I see Elmo still hasn’t posted his scoop. Maybe lawyers pointed out the can of legal worms that would open with twatter now being a publisher of news as well as social media company
Kyle Anderson@DavidCorn When the email screenshots came out, there was an article on how suspicious they were. Stuff like compression artifacting inconsistencies.
Can't find that write-up for the life of me. Hoping someone here knows!
@DavidCorn musk isn’t a reporter and is a known liar and bigot so why would we spend 5 seconds on this? Im not, other than to say that lol
Its Not A Hoax 🤞
Jeff Fox@DavidCorn glad you're writing on here. Over on birdsite, there is an incomprehensible tweeting food fight going on in response to #Taibbi supposed giant, belabor Ed expose. There's no way for any intelligent person to make sense of all that blather. Stay the course, David.
tobie@DavidCorn I haven't been following this. Is Musk planning on issuing a report on Hunter's laptop? What makes him a forensics expert?
Loud sigh.
@DavidCorn at this point, I don’t even care what was or was not on HB’s laptop. The questionable chain of custody makes it moot.
@@DavidCorn thank you. Always good to remind us of the origin of this 'story'.
Linda@DavidCorn
I really couldn't care less about Hunter Biden's laptop
It was just Trump's latest attempt to distract, as were Hillary's emails.
I am glad it was covered more, stolen property should not be made public.
Anne Ursu@DavidCorn thank you. I really wanted to know more about what this is actually about but was terrified to google.
@DavidCorn But I'd heard the laptop was tampered with, after it left Hunter Biden's possession for the last time, and that Giuliani had a hand in that tampering. So anything presumably criminal that resides on it is void as evidence of a crime. Unless it's crimes against Hunter Biden. Musk and Taibbi are merely acting as accessories. They've proved nothing, but then the right-wing ecosphere can exist in a vacuum of nothing even better than the average aflatoxin bacteria...
editR@DavidCorn posts like this are one of the reasons I left twitter. Can we please keep politics off Mastodon?! it becomes noise and does no good
The Media & Democracy ProjectTHanks. Always good to have a big picture and context.
Morgan Ziva 🧜♀️🔮💘@DavidCorn I think the laptop was a set up... What I found strange about the whole thing is why would hunter just randomly leave his lap top just before an election. I don't think it it can be used as evidence because of so much tampering. That's what I found anyway.