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Russia stole Hunter Biden's email? Who cares!

 CBS news recently repeated what they admitted is speculation - that the Hunter Biden email information being published in the NY Post was originally stolen by Russia in a "hack and dump" operation (see link below for details).

To which I respond - who cares?  

The issue should be less about where the information came from and more about is it accurate.  The origin of the emails should not be the question, if they are Hunter's emails then the media should be asking:

  • Is it true that Joe Biden's son was engaged in selling to foreign companies or foreign governments access to Joe Biden when he was Vice President of the United States?  And specifically selling the access to foreign companies or governments who would directly benefit because Joe Biden was overseeing their country for the Obama Administration, e.g. Burisma and the Ukraine.  
  • And just as importantly, is Hunter Biden doing the same thing now that Joe Biden is the Democrat nominee for President?
  • Even if he's not still selling that access, is Hunter Biden somehow compromised such that a President Biden could be subject to blackmail, e.g. having to not implement a policy that is good for America to prevent a foreign company or country from revealing information that would result in criminal prosecution of his son.
If CBS were suggesting the emails came from Russia and were false and just were part of a disinformation campaign by the Russians, that would be more interesting.  But that' not what CBS was suggesting.  They were suggesting the emails are legitimate but they come from an unsavory source.

But that's clearly not a typical journalistic standard because if it was then the NY Times' story about President Trump's taxes would have been discounted by CBS on the grounds that the tax information was clearly obtained illegally by someone. 





https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/10/18/cbs-doubles-down-their-speculation-russia-stole-hunters


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