wombatwoody wrote on Dec 4
th, 2022 at 6:00pm:
Elon Musk vows ‘more smoking guns’ to be revealed by Twitter after Hunter Biden bombshell
One day after Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk and journalist Matt Taibbi released a bombshell report on political censorship at Twitter, Musk said that there are “more smoking guns” he plans to reveal in the future...
The problem with the idea of "more" smoking guns requires there be one to begin with.
And there isn't...
Republicans have been claiming for years now that they have a magical laptop full of incriminating evidence. Yet somehow not a single shred of evidence has been provided.
Ignoring the fact that it doesn't exist... they also know that even if there WAS anything, they couldn't use it because they broke the chain of custody with the laptop. They could have arranged for it to go right to the FBI when they found out about it. But instead, Giuliani (who was the target of a Russian intelligence disinformation campaign) went to a company (that was proven to have been hacked by Russian intelligence) and came up with this magical laptop from a repair shop Hunter never went to. With a blind man who claims he saw Hunter (who he'd never seen before) and claimed he had Hunter's laptop. Which Rudy then took, making anything on the laptop completely inadmissible in court.
Not only that, but the hard drive supposedly passed around to many Republicans (from Tucker to Gaetz to Jordan). Right-wing journalists had reported that they saw the hard drive (which they couldn't confirm had anything to do with Hunter) and each time they saw it there was a different amount of data on it. Proving people were adding and deleting data, thus tampering with it.
Republicans are claiming the laptop proves all sorts of crimes, yet can't show a single shred of evidence, not that any of it would be usable even if they did.
Add to that, the Republicans launched multiple investigations into Biden and his family, trying to dig up dirt. Not only did they prove that Biden hadn't committed any crimes or ever abused his power, and Hunter, who was never in government, never had access to anything he should have or had any illegal business deals. And in those same investigations, Republicans proved that other Republicans HAD been making illegal deals with Ukraine and Russia, so Bill Barr had the reports redacted and buried.
Even the nude pics of Hunter that were illegally posted, didn't actually come from his laptop. They were stolen from an old social media account of his that got hacked.
There are two possible crimes that Hunter is actually being investigated for. One is for not paying taxes at one point. He's since paid back all taxes owed plus interest. He might face a fine, but that's about it.
The other is that at one point, he had a gun that he wasn't licensed to have because he was suicidal. He was talked out of killing himself by his family, who took the gun away from him. Again, at most, he's facing a fine for illegal possession.
What's funny is, these are potential crimes Republicans DIDN'T FIND, but things Democrats actually brought up to the FBI.