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2022-11-23 -Great Cultural Revolution
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CBS ‘confirms' Hunter Biden laptop is real 769 days after Post broke story
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 [NYPOST] It only took them 769 days.
CBS News said Monday that it confirmed the authenticity of data from Hunter Biden’s former laptop — more than two years after The Post first revealed its contents — as the first son’s lawyer complained he didn’t "consent" to the release.
The laptop links President Biden to his son Hunter and brother Jim Biden’s foreign influence-peddling, but high-ranking former spy agency officials claimed before the 2020 election it was likely Russian disinformation and the story was censored by Twitter and Facebook.
Most news outlets ignored the laptop’s contents until recently. CBS’s report follows belated verification of the laptop in March by the Washington Post and New York Times.
CBS correspondent Catherine Herridge reported that she received a copy of Hunter Biden’s hard drive from former Delaware computer repairman John Paul Mac Isaac, and that Minnesota computer scientists led by former Secret Service computer crimes expert Mark Lanterman said the files appeared legitimate.
Lanterman’s firm determined that the laptop’s contents accumulated over the course of time, as would be expected, and that there was no evidence that the documents were altered by outsiders.
Herridge did not specifically say which documents from the laptop were determined to be authentic. But she said that two sources confirmed to her that Joe Biden was the person identified as the "big guy" in an infamous May 2017 email that described a 10% side-aside as part of a deal with a Chinese government-linked company.
"Two of Hunter Biden’s former business partners, including Tony Bobulinski, who received the email, told CBS News that the 10% ’held by H for the big guy’ was shorthand for 10% held by Hunter for his father," Herridge reported. "The author [of the email, James Gilliar] has not responded to CBS News’ questions."
Mac Isaac says Hunter Biden brought the laptop to his Delaware shop and never picked it up. He says the FBI took the original laptop in December 2019 after he alerted the bureau to its contents. In October 2020, he provided files from the device to The Post.
"At no time did any individual, including Mr. Mac Isaac, have Mr. Biden’s consent to access his computer data or share it with others," Hunter Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, griped to CBS.
Ummm when the crackhead whore-mongering criminal traitor son left it past consent-required date it became a moot argument you POS
Clark also said, without providing any specific examples, "There have been multiple attempts to hack, infect, distort and peddle misinformation regarding Mr. Biden’s devices and data."
The incoming Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), said Thursday he will help lead GOP efforts to learn about Joe Biden’s connection to his family’s business endeavors.
"This committee will evaluate whether this president is compromised or swayed by foreign dollars. This is an investigation of Joe Biden," Comer said.
The first document reported by The Post from Hunter Biden’s laptop described then-Vice President Joe Biden’s attendance at a 2015 dinner at DC’s Cafe Milano to which his son invited an array of associates — including a representative of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which paid Hunter Biden up to $1 million pear year while his father led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
Documents on the laptop show Hunter Biden also invited to that dinner a trio of Kazakhstani businessmen and Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, ex-Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov.
Baturina allegedly paid $3.5 million in 2014 to a firm associated with Hunter Biden and remains one of just a handful of Russian billionaires not to face US sanctions in response to this year’s Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Online business records also indicate Hunter still holds a 10% stake in BHR Partners, a Chinese state-backed private equity firm that manages $2.1 billion in assets and takes a prominent role in acquiring overseas assets.
Hunter Biden co-founded BHR Partners in 2013 within weeks of joining then-Vice President Biden aboard Air Force Two on an official trip to Beijing, according to the Wall Street Journal. Hunter introduced his dad to incoming BHR CEO Jonathan Li in a hotel lobby and Joe Biden later wrote college recommendation letters for Li’s children, according to laptop documents.
In the separate Chinese venture that included discussion of the "big guy" getting a cut, Hunter and James Biden earned $4.8 million from CEFC China Energy — an arm of Beijing’s foreign-influence "Belt and Road" initiative — in 2017 and 2018, according to the Washington Post’s review of laptop files.
Sorry folks. I have this thing about CBS. I grew up with Walter Cronkite. People thought he was infallible like the pope but I remember my dad one evening warning me that it was all liberal bullcrap (not his exact words, I never heard him use the word bullcrap, but close enough). By the time Dan Rather took over I was old enough to start seeing through the bullcrap. Instinctively, I understood that Rather is a creep and a fraud, a hurricane chaser and a liar. But it wasn't just Rather and these days it isn't just Nora O'Donnell. It's the corporate culture. They are not journalists. An honest journalist could never get a job at CBS. They are something else and I can't find the words right now to convey the depth of my contempt for the entire corporation.
I remember when the Steele Dossier first made the news, how then CBS Anchor Scott Pelley said with a straight face that Christopher Steele was a reliable source. We know now the dossier was a pack of lies that Steele concocted because Hillary Clinton paid him to do so. I'm quite certain that Pelley knew it then.
I remember back in October of 2020 when Nora O'Donnell referred to the laptop story as "a far right conspiracy theory in a tabloid newspaper". That was all she would say about it. I'm quite certain CBS had people investigating the story and they knew the truth but they suppressed it.
O'Donnell specializes in half-truth, hyperbole and hysteria. But when those are not enough she will flat out lie.
Then I remember Leslie Stahl in her interview with Trump, when Trump started talking about the laptop, she claimed the story was "not confirmed". I'm sure that was a lie. I'm sure CBS had confirmed it by then. But Stahl denied it. She lied right there before Trump and the American people.
CBS lies all the time about everything.
Almost certainly the only reason they admit anything about the laptop now is that the new Republican majority in the House will investigate the matter. CBS will continue to ignore the New York Post. CBS executives hope people won't remember all of their previous denials of the laptop's existence. But I remember. 
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