Here's a useful flashback to 2020, when they were trying to ascertain if the emails were genuine, and why:
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In the intervening two years, other sources have authenticated the laptop, it seems the current furor is over how long it took the NYT to do it. I don't really care. In the meantime, there's been other, much bigger stuff going on, like a global pandemic, an insurrection, and a war in Europe.
There simply is no proof of this allegation. Nothing to show it happened.
Hunter seems to have lived a troubled life, and he's not out of the woods yet on some of his legal issues, including his not registering with FARA. But those are his problems, and should have no bearing on Joe Biden's presidency, since Joe Biden is not involved. Hunter's planned meeting never happened, and at the same time, Hunter knew the limitations. From the NYT article:
In some of the emails, Mr. Biden displayed a familiarity with FARA, and a desire to avoid triggering it.
In one email to Mr. Archer in April 2014, Mr. Biden outlined his vision for working with Burisma. In the email, Hunter Biden indicated that the forthcoming announcement of a trip to Ukraine by Vice President Biden — who is referred to in the email as “my guy,” but not by name — should “be characterized as part of our advice and thinking — but what he will say and do is out of our hands.”
The announcement “could be a really good thing or it could end up creating too great an expectation. We need to temper expectations regarding that visit,” Hunter Biden wrote.
Vice President Biden
traveled to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, about a week after the email.
In the same April 2014 email, Hunter Biden indicated that Burisma’s officials “need to know in no uncertain terms that we will not and cannot intervene directly with domestic policymakers, and that we need to abide by FARA and any other U.S. laws in the strictest sense across the board.”
He suggested enlisting the law firm where he worked at the time, Boies Schiller Flexner, to help Burisma through “direct discussions at state, energy and NSC,” referring to two cabinet departments and the National Security Council at the White House.
The firm “can devise a media plan and arrange for legal protections and mitigate U.S. domestic negative press regarding the current leadership if need be,” Mr. Biden wrote in the email.
Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer, Boies Schiller Flexner and Blue Star Strategies did not register under FARA on behalf of Burisma. From the NYT:
I disagree. After the Comey boondoggle right before the 2016 election, they were understandably wary. So now this was October 2020, and was it an October surprise, meant to sway the 2020 election? The press had every reason to be careful. Sometimes you have to fall back on Occam's razor, and the simplest explanation is the best.
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