Hunter Biden Interview on Jimmy Kimmel

[dirtywick]

if there was suspicious content, nobody ever revealed what it was. They released embarrassing photos of a guy who wasn’t running for office or involved in a campaign and asked a bunch of leading questions that never went anywhere which I would consider a smear.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

"I don't remember anything about the laptop" does not refute the GOP accusations.

"I never brought a laptop to a repair shop" directly contradicts it.

Why does it matter?

Because it's so simple.

Yes, it was part of GOP smear campaign. But was it wrong? Was there suspicious content on his computer that was confiscated by the FBI?

His response does not answer that question as no.

I repeat, who cares?

 

[eerok]

I repeat, who cares?

I think that's the right answer. If there was wrongdoing, then the FBI would certainly have noticed during their investigation. That didn't happen, so this page can be turned.

 

[acbytesla]

"I don't remember anything about the laptop" does not refute the GOP accusations.

"I never brought a laptop to a repair shop" directly contradicts it.

Why does it matter?

Because it's so simple.

Yes, it was part of GOP smear campaign. But was it wrong? Was there suspicious content on his computer that was confiscated by the FBI?

His response does not answer that question as no.

So what? There are a real problems with the accusations against Hunter and the laptop

1. They come from Giuliani. These don't come from the DOJ or FBI. We have absolutely no reason to believe that any of the things that were supposedly on the laptop were actually on the laptop. Giuliani and the GOP keep demonstrating they will lie and cheat. They have lost credibility.
2. He was investigated by the FBI during the Trump administration. Yet nothing came of it.

What Hunter Biden remembers is irrelevant. Also as an aside, what the repair guy did was incredibly sleazy. I've worked with these companies. If somebody drops a laptop off for repair. You call them to pick up the laptop. You email or write to them and after a period of time, you wipe the disk and sell the laptop. His personal info is not the repair guy's business.

 

[Horatius]

I repeat, who cares?

I care, because it proves, once again, as if we even need one more example, that the mainstream GOP is completely full of ****.

It used to be that stupid **** like this came from the CT fringe of any political movement, but now it's coming from elements of the GOP who have actual power and responsibility in society, and they're using that power to irresponsibly spread this crap. Everyone should care about this.

 

[CORed]

So what? There are a real problems with the accusations against Hunter and the laptop

1. They come from Giuliani. These don't come from the DOJ or FBI. We have absolutely no reason to believe that any of the things that were supposedly on the laptop were actually on the laptop. Giuliani and the GOP keep demonstrating they will lie and cheat. They have lost credibility.
2. He was investigated by the FBI during the Trump administration. Yet nothing came of it.

What Hunter Biden remembers is irrelevant. Also as an aside, what the repair guy did was incredibly sleazy. I've worked with these companies. If somebody drops a laptop off for repair. You call them to pick up the laptop. You email or write to them and after a period of time, you wipe the disk and sell the laptop. His personal info is not the repair guy's business.

I have doubts as to whether the laptop existed at all, and the repair shop story smells like month old fish. I also suspect that the few emails that actually got released were the worst that Giuiani actually had (wherever they actually came from). It makes no sense, if the child porn and whatever terrible stuff Giuliani said were actually on the laptop that it was not released. Also, the emails and the laptop story were released very late (after a lot of early and mail-in ballots had already been cast). All of this points to a last-ditch effort to manufacture a scandal out of whole cloth. Had they really had anything damning, to Hunter or to Joe, it would have been released, and it would have been released a week or two earlier.

 

[acbytesla]

I care, because it proves, once again, as if we even need one more example, that the mainstream GOP is completely full of ****.

It used to be that stupid **** like this came from the CT fringe of any political movement, but now it's coming from elements of the GOP who have actual power and responsibility in society, and they're using that power to irresponsibly spread this crap. Everyone should care about this.

I have doubts as to whether the laptop existed at all, and the repair shop story smells like month old fish. I also suspect that the few emails that actually got released were the worst that Giuiani actually had (wherever they actually came from). It makes no sense, if the child porn and whatever terrible stuff Giuliani said were actually on the laptop that it was not released. Also, the emails and the laptop story were released very late (after a lot of early and mail-in ballots had already been cast). All of this points to a last-ditch effort to manufacture a scandal out of whole cloth. Had they really had anything damning, to Hunter or to Joe, it would have been released, and it would have been released a week or two earlier.

That's kind of how I see it. If Giuliani had worse he would have presented the evidence.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I care, because it proves, once again, as if we even need one more example, that the mainstream GOP is completely full of ****.

It used to be that stupid **** like this came from the CT fringe of any political movement, but now it's coming from elements of the GOP who have actual power and responsibility in society, and they're using that power to irresponsibly spread this crap. Everyone should care about this.

So you need his position on whether or not it is his laptop to know that?

 

[Horatius]

So you need his position on whether or not it is his laptop to know that?

The issue was this:

"I don't remember anything about the laptop" does not refute the GOP accusations.

"I never brought a laptop to a repair shop" directly contradicts it.

A crackhead not remembering things isn't surprising. The point is, I don't need a "direct contradiction" to determine if the GOP claims are ******** or not. If the claims had merit, they'd have the evidence to damn him, whether he remembers anything or not.

 

[Roger Ramjets]

"I don't remember anything about the laptop" does not refute the GOP accusations.

"I never brought a laptop to a repair shop" directly contradicts it.

Why does it matter?

Because it's so simple.

Not so simple. A categorical denial bears no more weight than a lack of recollection, and could even indicate subterfuge or outright lying. eg. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman".

Over the years I have owned many computers of various types. I honestly cannot recall what happened to many of them - and I don't take drugs of any kind.

Was there suspicious content on his computer that was confiscated by the FBI?

I give up. Was there?

 

[pgwenthold]

Over the years I have owned many computers of various types. I honestly cannot recall what happened to many of them - and I don't take drugs of any kind.

Did you take any of them to a computer repair shop to recover the contents on the hard drive and then never go back to get them?

This is exactly the point. It's easy to say, "I don't know where my old laptops are." As you note, that is an honest answer. But it's also honest to say, "I never took them to a repair shop."

 

[Belz...]

Did you take any of them to a computer repair shop to recover the contents on the hard drive and then never go back to get them?

This is exactly the point. It's easy to say, "I don't know where my old laptops are." As you note, that is an honest answer. But it's also honest to say, "I never took them to a repair shop."

You do know that none of this story is probably true, right? Giuliani most likely just made the whole thing up. So what should Hunter Biden say other than what he did?

 

[Mongrel]

Did you take any of them to a computer repair shop to recover the contents on the hard drive and then never go back to get them?

This is exactly the point. It's easy to say, "I don't know where my old laptops are." As you note, that is an honest answer. But it's also honest to say, "I never took them to a repair shop."

"I don't remember one way or the other, I was pretty wrecked around that time" is also an honest answer.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

If the laptop is a bogus story and Hunter has had numerous blackouts it is possible that he can't say the story is fake for that reason.

 

[RecoveringYuppy]

Have I missed something? Isn't the laptop story still such an obvious piece of total ******** that absolutely everyone is free to just ignore it?

 

[eerok]

Have I missed something? Isn't the laptop story still such an obvious piece of total ******** that absolutely everyone is free to just ignore it?

The laptop thing seemed like an attempt to recapitulate the Hillary email scandal of 2016. Putting it in the hands of Giuliani was a mistake.

But, yeah, it's pretty much a joke now.

 

[Cavemonster]

The laptop story as it unfolded was so bizarre.

The shop owner having apparent face blindness so they couldn't identify that Hunter dropped it off. The idea that the laptop was submitted to the FBI who put it into custody of the President's personal lawyer who held no government position? The fact that most of the supposed damning content was released in random, unofficial leak, distributed through chan sites and social media, with no official statement or way to distinguish what Giuliani was alleging to be real from any random photoshopped crap or made up claim being circulated. All from a laptop apparently abandoned in a city he didn't live in?

That's not how anything real works.

What I makes more sense than any of the bizarre chain of custody being claimed, is that somehow some Trump surrogate got ahold of either a used laptop or simply some files belonging Hunter and knew that once they could show they had something private of Hunter's, they could use that to claim that anything they like was found alongside it. I don't imagine Hunter was super careful with his cloud accounts when he was using crack, so I suspect personal photos or emails were as easy to access as celebrity photos stolen from the cloud by bored teenagers.

 

[Beerina]

There already exists a Roger Clinton.

And Billy Beer.

I've given up complaining about relatives getting mysteriously rich (much less the politicians directly.)

I guess you and yours are just investment geniuses nobody can ever "prove" wrongdoing. Ergo clean, pure investment geniuses. Look, even some bad investments! Yet the bottom line keeps going way up at many times your nominal salaries.


Hint: They are all corrupt. That's why they go into government. "Good policies" are just cover stories to win elections.

 

[Horatius]

I guess you and yours are just investment geniuses nobody can ever "prove" wrongdoing. Ergo clean, pure investment geniuses. Look, even some bad investments! Yet the bottom line keeps going way up at many times your nominal salaries.

Sure, the people taking the money are corrupt, but then, the people giving the money seem just a tad stupid to me. Is there anyone out there who really thinks that, as Vice President, Biden ever once thought, "Hey, these Ukrainian guys are giving my crack-addict son hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing nothing! I better be sure to do everything they ever ask of me!"

I mean, seriously, would any of you be swayed by such obvious nonsense? "Hey, we'll stop paying him that $80 000 a month!" "Big ******* deal, his bank account already has enough in it to support him for the next ten years. Go ahead and cut him off."

 

[gregthehammer]

I don't understand the people disparaging Hunter's crack habit. He was rather financially brilliant in his choice of addiction. He pulled in cocaine grade salary, but wisely shopped around for the better bang for the buck. Shows a bit of fiscal acuity, me thinks.