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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (197494)	3/30/2021 8:09:52 PM
From: combjelly	3 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Brumar89 Terry Maloney Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354589

You mean the laptop that supposedly Hunter traveled from California to Delaware to drop off at a computer shop run by a Trump supporter? The one that the IC considers to be the result of a Russian disinfo attempt? That laptop? I can't imagine why that wouldn't be picked up.

To: i-node who wrote (197494)	3/31/2021 10:33:16 AM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 354589

What in the world does Hunter Biden's laptop have to do with a coup? A coup is about taking down a sitting president. The laptop story came up during the Trump administration. Surely you don't think that the media were trying to take down Trump with Biden's son's laptop. So, you have provided a no-item non-response to the point on the table. Rather, your comment seems to be about media bias. I will address it despite it being off topic. I haven't paid close attention to the story. My understanding is that Hunter supposedly took this laptop with a bunch of juicy stuff about his iffy dealings to a repair shop in Delaware and the shop operator called the FBI. That seems absurd on its face, not that he has a laptop with juicy stuff but that he took it to a repair shop. Who takes laptops to repair shops? (Who, at a Biden income level, takes anything less pricey than a car to a repair shop?) Particularly a repair shop in another state on the other side of the country., for heaven's sake. I don't. I just buy a new one like I do with most items that are near and dear to me. [Right now I'm thinking about buying another laptop even though this one is working fine because it's three years old and one day it won't be fine and that day may be inconvenient to deal with a crisis. (Yes, my laptop failing for me is a big crisis.) So then I'll have a backup computer on hand and be able to recover fairly quickly. (Laptop technology used to change quickly, which is why I never bought a backup before. Now, I'll probably just buy a copy of the model I already have. It's a Lenovo Flex. I like it just fine, although the flexing feature is not something I use.) I have backups for lots of things that would be a nuisance to have to get out and buy on a dime. Sometimes my backups end up being used; sometimes they end up at the Salvation Army because they no longer fit or I find something I like better or I don't need them any more. I recently left my still-boxed backup water shoes (just the right style being hard to find) at the pool with a note about them needing a good home because I stopped using water shoes years ago.] So, back to the story, there are possibilities. One is that it's the nonsense it appears to be on the surface. Another is that there's something to it but it's part of the FBI and/or IRS investigation of Hunter so it's under wraps. If the latter, there likely won't be leaks, which is where the media get most of their juicy stuff. Maybe some investigative reporter has looked into it by talking to the repair shop guy. Maybe the guy didn't seem credible or maybe he just didn't have enough info to make much of a story. All they could write about would be the suspicions and accusations. No Pulitzer in that. They could badger Joe Biden about it every chance they got but they'd just get a denial. No Pulitzer in that either. At such time as Hunter gets charged with something and the media have fodder for a story, I would imagine it would get on top of it. As for the third possibility, that some newsroom has the story and it's hot and they're holding back out of bias, there's a nice bridge in Brooklyn up for sale from which they have thrown their dreams of said Pulitzer. so-called newsrooms across the country ignored it and called it a ‘non-story.’ Well, yeah. Even if there's something to the material on the laptop, unless it seriously compromises Joe, it would be just another unfortunate story of a wayward offspring. Were I a reporter, I would make a few calls and finding nothing I could get my hooks into, I would set the matter aside until such time as there was something to work with. How would you approach it were you a WaPo reporter?