It is painful to watch just how little traction Rudy Giuliani's last minute hail mary effort smearing Hunter and Joe Biden is getting outside the usual Trump bubble.
The right wing NY Post and Fox News seem to be the only two outlets who are talking about this laptop fairytale, but nobody else is paying much attention to it. It might even be true, but still nobody cares. Giuliani has overplayed his hand on the Ukraine issue for a long time and now has no credibility left.
It doesn't help much that the story itself is just as pathetic as Giuliani's attempt to smear the Bidens. So, let's examine the story;
First you have to believe that Hunter Biden, with his father in the race for President, would be stupid enough to bring a laptop full with damaging materials to an obscure computer repair shop and then not pick it up after it was repaired. That, by itself, casts serious doubt on the story, but it gets worse. The repair shop owner, who is nearly blind, is unable to identify Hunter Biden as the man who dropped of the laptop and provided the information for the receipt. This man than somehow looks at the content of the laptop and he allegedly gets so concerned that he calls the FBI. The Agency reponds and collects the laptop, but not before the shop owner makes copies of the hard drives. The repair man then waits for some reply from the FBI, which he never gets, simply because that's not the way it works. When the FBI investigates something they don't call you back to tell you the results of that investigation. But this is where it gets interesting.... Apparently the repair man decides to offer the copied hard drives to others, but nobody is interested, so he somehow ends up with Rudy Giuliani's lawyer. He, presumably, pays of the repair man and passes the hard drives to Rudy Giuliani. This is somewhere in mid july 2020.
So, what does Giuliani do with the material? After all, this is the evidence he has been looking for, right? The smoking gun that will show everybody that what he has been saying for months is all true..... Does he give it to law enforcement, to his buddy Bill Barr or the Senate's judiciary committee? No, he sits on it and waits until 20 days before the election and then makes a deal and gives hard copies of some documents to the right wing newspaper the New York Post who instantly publishes the material. I wonder how much they paid Giuliani....
Giuliani claims that, before he gave the material to the NY Post, he authenticated the material, but he fails to provide any evidence for that claim. The meta data that must be on the copied hard drives could provide information about the true origin of the emails, but Giuliani doesn't release that material. Instead he wants us to believe him on his word....
Is there anything straight forward or even remotely normal about this story? I don't think so.... yet Giuliani wonders why nobody believes him... Go figure
