Politics and Money

[lesgetrich]

If the two of you have finished your circle jerk, no one believes your Russian propaganda claims anymore. You lost all credibility during the impeachment when it was proven to everyone, except spineless sitting Republican Senators, that Trump was trying to leverage US foreign aid for Ukraine in order to get them to fabricate evidence against Hunter Biden. The Russians are still trying to feed you lies about Hunter and the laptop but real news sources aren't falling for them this time. BTW Hunter isn't running for President. Joe is, and you guys can't even settle on what crime your accusing him of!...

Politifact - Facebook posts stated on October 18, 2020 in a text post: Says “Hunter Biden had 25,000 pics of him torturing and raping children under age 10 in China on his laptop.”

- There is no evidence that a laptop previously belonging to Hunter Biden contains child pornography. The allegation originated on an anonymous internet forum that’s a known source of online disinformation...

...On Oct. 15, Chanel Rion, the chief White House correspondent for One America News Network — a pro-Trump cable TV network — tweeted that she had seen the contents of the hard drive at the center of the New York Post story.

"Drugs, underage obsessions, power deals," she said in the post. "Druggie Hunter makes Anthony Weiner's down under selfie addiction look normal."

The tweet, which was shared more than 53,000 times, then made its way to 4chan, where users anonymously speculated that it meant the FBI was investigating Hunter Biden. One user posing as Rion affirmed that speculation, saying the hard drive contained child pornography.

The real Rion tweeted Oct. 16 that she did not write the posts.

"For the record: I do not post on chat forums," she wrote. "I understand there are hoaxers posing as me."

But it was too late. Social media users dedicated to QAnon, a baseless conspiracy theory that claims Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic, left-leaning pedophiles, took the 4chan posts as evidence that the FBI was investigating Hunter Biden for potentially possessing child pornography...

...Remember these points as you see claims about the laptop and stories around it.

- It's unclear if the name on the back of the subpoena actually belongs to Joshua Wilson, or if there’s more than one FBI agent who goes by that name. It’s also unconfirmed if the subpoena in the Post’s story was for the laptop.

- Federal investigators are looking into whether emails found on the laptop could be linked to a foreign intelligence operation to discredit Joe Biden. (More than 50 former intelligence officials told Politico they appear to be. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says they’re not.)

- Staffers at the Post expressed concerns about the story’s credibility before it was published. Fox News passed on the story until the emails could be properly vetted.

- The owner of the computer repair shop told reporters that, while he couldn’t confirm it was Hunter Biden who dropped off the laptop because he is "legally blind," he also said he didn't see child pornography on the computer.

- No other news organizations have seen or corroborated the data supposedly on the laptop's hard drive...

...Several Facebook posts claim "Hunter Biden had 25,000 pics of him torturing and raping children under age 10 in China on his laptop."

There is no evidence to support that.

The allegation originated on an anonymous internet forum that’s a known source of online disinformation, and conspiracy websites that reported the claims relied on anonymous sources to back them up. The New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop is unconfirmed — but it also does not mention child pornography. The owner of the computer repair shop where the laptop came from told reporters he didn’t see child pornography on it.

Without information to support the allegations, we rate the posts False.