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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 13:26:03 GMT
Predictably, Republicans are trying to take credit for infrastructure improvements and investments that they voted against in the Inflation Reduction Act. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/04/cornyn-tesla-gigafactory-musk-inflation-reduction-act-tax-credits/Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) visited the massive Tesla plant in his home state, met with the company’s raving CEO, Elon Musk, sat in a Tesla Cybertruck prototype and tweeted out the photos below. “Everything is bigger in the Lone Star State including @tesla’s Gigafactory Texas — the 2nd largest manufacturing facility in the U.S.!” he trumpeted. “Tesla’s impressive facility employs 10k Texans & is one of the many reasons why TX is leading in job creation.” Omitted from Cornyn’s tweet: That he fought bitterly against the clean-energy tax credits that directly prompted Tesla to boost its U.S. manufacturing. Tesla’s current expansion in U.S. output includes a massive new investment at the very plant Cornyn toured and touted. Cornyn and all other Senate Republicans opposed last year’s Inflation Reduction Act, which contained massive tax incentives for electric vehicles. Cornyn mocked the credits as “pet projects” and “handouts for rich folks who want to buy electric vehicles.” He claimed that the credits would “be subsidizing the purchase of Chinese-made, and commercial and used electric vehicles.” It’s not the first time Cornyn appeared to be enjoying the fruits of a law he opposed. On June 27, he tweeted an article with the headline “Texas to receive $3.3 billion in federal funds to boost broadband expansion efforts.” Those funds came from the 2021 infrastructure bill — which Cornyn also voted against. In this, he had lots of company. GOP Sens. Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.), Tommy Tuberville (Ala.), John Boozman (Ark.) and Tom Cotton (Ark.) also boasted about money coming to their states from the infrastructure law to fund transportation and broadband projects. All voted against the bill. “Great to see Alabama receive crucial funds to boost ongoing broadband efforts,” the nay-voting Tuberville tweeted in late June. |
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 13:56:31 GMT
If you're asking that question as some kind of gotcha to sunshine, then you aren't even keeping up with what the hell is happening in our government right now. P.S. Hunter's issues and the COVER UP came BEFORE Trump’s indictments. Trump’s administration covered up things regarding Hunter Biden? The question is why didn’t Trump’s administration do anything? You can’t blame President Biden for something Trump failed to do. Are you seriously putting forth the argument that BECAUSE Trump was president that no one was was covering up for Biden? Really? |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 14:00:32 GMT
Trump’s administration covered up things regarding Hunter Biden? The question is why didn’t Trump’s administration do anything? You can’t blame President Biden for something Trump failed to do. Are you seriously putting forth the argument that BECAUSE Trump was president that no one was was covering up for Biden? Really? If Trump was in charge, who was covering up? The Hunter Biden conspiracies just get crazier and crazier. |
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 14:06:35 GMT
Are you seriously putting forth the argument that BECAUSE Trump was president that no one was was covering up for Biden? Really? If Trump was in charge, who was covering up? The Hunter Biden conspiracies just get crazier and crazier. The FBI. That's not a conspiracy. It's already been proven that the laptop was NOT "Russian disinformation". |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 14:12:21 GMT
Lots of reasons to be alarmed if Trump gets re-elected. He will fire everyone he possibly can and replace them with people who are fiercely loyal to him and will do his bidding. His administration will look like the crazy people that surrounded him after the election - Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell, Jeffrey Clark, Sidney Powell etc. Trump will use his powers to take revenge on anyone who spoke out against him. He will concentrate presidential powers, make the government as authoritarian as possible and crown himself king. And these are just the tip of the iceberg - the things he's openly talking about. Imagine what he's talking about behind closed doors. www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/us/politics/trump-plans-2025.htmlDonald J. Trump and his allies are planning a sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government if voters return him to the White House in 2025, reshaping the structure of the executive branch to concentrate far greater authority directly in his hands.
Their plans to centralize more power in the Oval Office stretch far beyond the former president’s recent remarks that he would order a criminal investigation into his political rival, President Biden, signaling his intent to end the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence from White House political control.
Mr. Trump and his associates have a broader goal: to alter the balance of power by increasing the president’s authority over every part of the federal government that now operates, by either law or tradition, with any measure of independence from political interference by the White House, according to a review of his campaign policy proposals and interviews with people close to him.
Mr. Trump intends to bring independent agencies — like the Federal Communications Commission, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies, and the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces various antitrust and other consumer protection rules against businesses — under direct presidential control.
The strategy in talking openly about such “paradigm-shifting ideas” before the election, Mr. Vought said, is to “plant a flag” — both to shift the debate and to later be able to claim a mandate. He said he was delighted to see few of Mr. Trump’s Republican primary rivals defend the norm of Justice Department independence after the former president openly attacked it.
“It would be chaotic,” said John F. Kelly, Mr. Trump’s second White House chief of staff. “It just simply would be chaotic, because he’d continually be trying to exceed his authority but the sycophants would go along with it. It would be a nonstop gunfight with the Congress and the courts.”
Personal power has always been a driving force for Mr. Trump. He often gestures toward it in a more simplistic manner, such as in 2019, when he declared to a cheering crowd, “I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”
Mr. Trump has also vowed to impound funds, or refuse to spend money appropriated by Congress. After Nixon used the practice to aggressively block agency spending he was opposed to, on water pollution control, housing construction and other issues, Congress banned the tactic.
On his campaign website, Mr. Trump declared that presidents have a constitutional right to impound funds and said he would restore the practice — though he acknowledged it could result in a legal battle. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 14:23:53 GMT
If Trump was in charge, who was covering up? The Hunter Biden conspiracies just get crazier and crazier. The FBI. That's not a conspiracy. It's already been proven that the laptop was NOT "Russian disinformation". Trump was in charge and the FBI director was a Trump appointee. The FBI never claimed the laptop was disinformation. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-hunter-biden-laptop-russia/2020/10/20/3478408a-133d-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.htmlThe FBI notified Congress late Tuesday that it has “nothing to add at this time” to a statement made by President Trump’s director of national intelligence disputing the idea that Russia orchestrated the discovery of a computer that may have belonged to Joe Biden’s son. |
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 14:36:22 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 14:39:30 GMT
The latest indictment is really about a peaceful transition of power and Trump's complete failure to do that. Trump tried to stay in power, override will of the people and overturn the election. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/03/trump-federal-indictment-justice-system-working-so-far/For the first time in our nation’s history, an incumbent president who was defeated in his bid for reelection tried to overturn the will of the voters and cling to power.
Think about that. Think about the close and passionately contested presidential elections this country has lived through. Think about how all of them — except one — were resolved by an orderly transfer of power. Richard M. Nixon gracefully conceded to John F. Kennedy in 1960. Al Gore accepted the Supreme Court ruling that cemented George W. Bush’s victory in 2000. Hillary Clinton congratulated Trump on his upset win in 2016
Trump made a famous campaign promise in 2016 about all the “winning” he was going to do. Let me fix it for him, with my word substitutions in italics: “We’re gonna conspire so much, you may even get tired of conspiring. And you’ll say, ‘Please, please — it’s too much conspiring. We can’t take it anymore, Mr. President, it’s too much.’ And I’ll say, ‘No it isn’t. We have to keep conspiring. We have to conspire more. We’re going to conspire more. We’re going to conspire so much.”
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 14:41:23 GMT
Yes, because the article included the FBI statement at the time. The FBI never claimed the laptop was disinformation. Nothing has happened in the last 3 years to change that. |
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Post by sunshine on Aug 4, 2023 14:41:52 GMT
joseph robinette biden, jr. has been selling out US policy to make his family very, very rich.
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 14:46:14 GMT
Yes, because the article included the FBI statement at the time. The FBI never claimed the laptop was disinformation. Nothing has happened in the last 3 years to change that. The point being that your statement: "Trump’s administration covered up things regarding Hunter Biden? The question is why didn’t Trump’s administration do anything? You can’t blame President Biden for something Trump failed to do." ...is incorrect. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 14:52:59 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 14:54:37 GMT
Yes, because the article included the FBI statement at the time. The FBI never claimed the laptop was disinformation. Nothing has happened in the last 3 years to change that. The point being that your statement: "Trump’s administration covered up things regarding Hunter Biden? The question is why didn’t Trump’s administration do anything? You can’t blame President Biden for something Trump failed to do." ...is incorrect. This just gets more and more ridiculous and nonsensical. How is President Biden responsible for what the FBI did or didn't do before he was even elected? |
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Post by pinklady on Aug 4, 2023 15:00:05 GMT
joseph robinette biden, jr. has been selling out US policy to make his family very, very rich.  so you feel the same way about stealing US military secrets to sell to the highest bidder, right? Guess who did that...not Biden. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 4, 2023 15:11:00 GMT
GOOD NEWS!!! (Oops late to the party. Had things to do this morning) The Tennessee Reps soundly won their seats in the special election.. Two Tennessee Democrats who were expelled by the GOP-controlled state House earlier this year for taking part in a gun control demonstration on the chamber floor won special elections for their seats on Thursday, handily fending off Republican opponents. State Rep. Justin Jones, who represents Nashville, defeated GOP challenger Laura Nelson with nearly 80% of the vote. State Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis defeated his Republican opponent, Jeff Johnston, with more than 90% of the vote. The people have spoken," Jones wrote following his victory, directing his message at Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, a Republican who led the charge to expel Jones and Pearson.www.rawstory.com/the-people-have-spoken-both-expelled-tennessee-democrats-win-back-their-seats/ |
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 15:11:50 GMT
The point being that your statement: "Trump’s administration covered up things regarding Hunter Biden? The question is why didn’t Trump’s administration do anything? You can’t blame President Biden for something Trump failed to do." ...is incorrect. This just gets more and more ridiculous and nonsensical. How is President Biden responsible for what the FBI did or didn't do before he was even elected? "Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election." |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 15:24:40 GMT
This just gets more and more ridiculous and nonsensical. How is President Biden responsible for what the FBI did or didn't do before he was even elected? "Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election." Assuming what he said is true, Morell's testimony was about the letter from former national officials, it had nothing to do with the FBI. There have been no connections established between the Biden campaign and the FBI under Trump's administration with a Trump appointed head of the FBI. This seems obvious, but Biden is not responsible for what happened or didn't happen with the FBI before he was even elected. |
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 15:32:41 GMT
"Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election." Assuming what he said is true, Morell's testimony was about the letter from former national officials, it had nothing to do with the FBI. There have been no connections established between the Biden campaign and the FBI under Trump's administration with a Trump appointed head of the FBI. This seems obvious, but Biden is not responsible for what happened or didn't happen with the FBI before he was even elected. The FBI blocked investigation into the Bidens. |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 15:33:22 GMT
Another Fox lawsuit www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191990325/ex-biden-officials-lawsuit-against-fox-echoes-case-that-led-to-big-settlementFox News paid $787 million in April to settle a defamation lawsuit over its false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential elections. The payment was meant to put the matter in the rear view mirror.
Yet it continues to reverberate.
A former Biden administration official's defamation suit against Fox, filed in May, is percolating in a federal court in Delaware. Nina Jankowicz argues the network's stars and commentators repeatedly lied about her, even after being told their claims were false.
Jankowicz's attorneys say the network's stars and commentators repeatedly lied about her, saying she would police what people say and act as the nation's chief censor, even after being told their claims were false. The suit points to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas's statements in an interview with Fox political anchor Bret Baier and his sworn testimony, as well as then White House press secretary Jen Psaki's remarks to questions from Fox reporter Peter Doocy.
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 15:36:01 GMT
Assuming what he said is true, Morell's testimony was about the letter from former national officials, it had nothing to do with the FBI. There have been no connections established between the Biden campaign and the FBI under Trump's administration with a Trump appointed head of the FBI. This seems obvious, but Biden is not responsible for what happened or didn't happen with the FBI before he was even elected. The FBI blocked investigation into the Bidens. Now you're just making wild allegations. Where is the evidence that the Biden campaign even influenced the FBI under the Trump administration? At the risk of sounding repetitive, the Biden administration is not responsible for what did or did not happen with the FBI before he was even elected. |
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 15:49:59 GMT
The FBI blocked investigation into the Bidens. Now you're just making wild allegations. Where is the evidence that the Biden campaign even influenced the FBI under the Trump administration? At the risk of sounding repetitive, the Biden administration is not responsible for what did or did not happen with the FBI before he was even elected. Now you're just being dishonest. Again. 2 whistleblowers who's testimony, under oath, matches each other, with documentation that corroborates their testimony. Documentation that includes 5 other people. Not to mention Tony Bobulinski's statements also corroborates their under oath testimony. Biden even cited the letter in a debate with Trump as proof that the laptop was Russian disinformation and that Hunter wasn't making any money from China. We now know those claims are not true. |
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 4, 2023 16:09:43 GMT
I want to know why donations sent to the campaign should pay the crook’s legal fees? And just exactly why shoukd the Supreme Court get involved?
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Post by uksue on Aug 4, 2023 16:15:09 GMT
There was no chain of custody of that laptop- how can you possibly take the whole laptop issue seriously? Can you imagine any prosecutor going into court and having to admit that he had no idea who had handked/altered/corrupted his main piece of evidence? It's nonsense. Between the computer repair guy and the GOP they have rendered the laptop a useless piece of evidence, whether there was anything illegal going on or not ( which I have no opinion about). |
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 16:15:16 GMT
Now you're just making wild allegations. Where is the evidence that the Biden campaign even influenced the FBI under the Trump administration? At the risk of sounding repetitive, the Biden administration is not responsible for what did or did not happen with the FBI before he was even elected. Now you're just being dishonest. Again. 2 whistleblowers who's testimony, under oath, matches each other, with documentation that corroborates their testimony. Documentation that includes 5 other people. Not to mention Tony Bobulinski's statements also corroborates their under oath testimony. Biden even cited the letter in a debate with Trump as proof that the laptop was Russian disinformation and that Hunter wasn't making any money from China. We now know those claims are not true. Just like the Republicans, you are just trying to muddy the waters. If Hunter Biden did something illegal, then he should be charged. Any comparison or whataboutism between Hunter Biden and Trump's indictments is ridiculous and purely a deflection. Almost everything you posted is irrelevant to connections between the Biden campaign and the FBI under the Trump administration. The letter from former national security officials is irrelevant. Morell's testimony about the letter is irrelevant. Biden's opinion about the laptop is not evidence that he influenced the FBI's actions or statements. The IRS whistleblowers' testimony is about the Department of Justice Investigation. It has nothing to do with the FBI investigation and no connection to the Biden campaign in October 2020. Tony Bobulinski is not a credible source. Even if you believe him, his claims have nothing to do with Joe Biden's influence over the FBI before he was elected. Again, there is zero evidence that the Biden campaign had any influence over the FBI under the Trump administration. Biden is not responsible for what the FBI did or didn't do before he was elected. The only people responsible for the FBI in October 2020 are Trump and his appointed head of the FBI, Christopher Wray. |
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Post by onelasttime on Aug 4, 2023 16:16:51 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Aug 4, 2023 16:26:33 GMT
GOOD NEWS!!! (Oops late to the party. Had things to do this morning) The Tennessee Reps soundly won their seats in the special election.. Two Tennessee Democrats who were expelled by the GOP-controlled state House earlier this year for taking part in a gun control demonstration on the chamber floor won special elections for their seats on Thursday, handily fending off Republican opponents. State Rep. Justin Jones, who represents Nashville, defeated GOP challenger Laura Nelson with nearly 80% of the vote. State Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis defeated his Republican opponent, Jeff Johnston, with more than 90% of the vote. The people have spoken," Jones wrote following his victory, directing his message at Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton, a Republican who led the charge to expel Jones and Pearson.www.rawstory.com/the-people-have-spoken-both-expelled-tennessee-democrats-win-back-their-seats/Happy to see that the Republican attempt to silence them backfired. They gained a national platform and $2 million in campaign donations. www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1192068281/the-2-expelled-members-of-the-tennessee-3-win-back-their-state-house-seatsThe expulsions drew national support for the newly dubbed "Tennessee Three," especially for Pearson and Jones' campaign fundraising. The two raised more than $2 million combined through about 70,400 campaign donations from across the country. The amount is well beyond the norm for Tennessee's Republican legislative leaders and virtually unheard of for two freshman Democrats in a superminority.
Meanwhile, more than 15 Republican lawmakers had funneled cash to fund campaign efforts of Jones' Republican opponent, Nelson. Nelson has raised more than $34,000 for the race. Pearson's opponent, Johnston, raised less than $400 for the contest. |
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 16:35:10 GMT
There was no chain of custody of that laptop- how can you possibly take the whole laptop issue seriously? Can you imagine any prosecutor going into court and having to admit that he had no idea who had handked/altered/corrupted his main piece of evidence? It's nonsense. Between the computer repair guy and the GOP they have rendered the laptop a useless piece of evidence, whether there was anything illegal going on or not ( which I have no opinion about). "New Testimony Reveals Secretary Blinken and Biden Campaign Behind the Infamous Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Laptop" "Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election." |
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 16:37:31 GMT
Now you're just being dishonest. Again. 2 whistleblowers who's testimony, under oath, matches each other, with documentation that corroborates their testimony. Documentation that includes 5 other people. Not to mention Tony Bobulinski's statements also corroborates their under oath testimony. Biden even cited the letter in a debate with Trump as proof that the laptop was Russian disinformation and that Hunter wasn't making any money from China. We now know those claims are not true. Just like the Republicans, you are just trying to muddy the waters. If Hunter Biden did something illegal, then he should be charged. Any comparison or whataboutism between Hunter Biden and Trump's indictments is ridiculous and purely a deflection. Almost everything you posted is irrelevant to connections between the Biden campaign and the FBI under the Trump administration. The letter from former national security officials is irrelevant. Morell's testimony about the letter is irrelevant. Biden's opinion about the laptop is not evidence that he influenced the FBI's actions or statements. The IRS whistleblowers' testimony is about the Department of Justice Investigation. It has nothing to do with the FBI investigation and no connection to the Biden campaign in October 2020. Tony Bobulinski is not a credible source. Even if you believe him, his claims have nothing to do with Joe Biden's influence over the FBI before he was elected. Again, there is zero evidence that the Biden campaign had any influence over the FBI under the Trump administration. Biden is not responsible for what the FBI did or didn't do before he was elected. The only people responsible for the FBI in October 2020 are Trump and his appointed head of the FBI, Christopher Wray. You're still being dishonest. The point being that your statement: "Trump’s administration covered up things regarding Hunter Biden? The question is why didn’t Trump’s administration do anything? You can’t blame President Biden for something Trump failed to do." ...is incorrect. |
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 4, 2023 16:44:33 GMT
Please lift the needle, it is stuck in a groove...
Playing the same one over and over again...
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Post by morecowbell on Aug 4, 2023 16:51:53 GMT
There was no chain of custody of that laptop- how can you possibly take the whole laptop issue seriously? Can you imagine any prosecutor going into court and having to admit that he had no idea who had handked/altered/corrupted his main piece of evidence? It's nonsense. Between the computer repair guy and the GOP they have rendered the laptop a useless piece of evidence, whether there was anything illegal going on or not ( which I have no opinion about). "New Testimony Reveals Secretary Blinken and Biden Campaign Behind the Infamous Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Laptop" "Based on Morell’s testimony, it is apparent that the Biden campaign played an active role in the origins of the public statement, which had the effect of helping to suppress the Hunter Biden story and preventing American citizens from making a fully informed decision during the 2020 presidential election." They are not going to do that if they don't already know the laptop and everything in it is credible. The "chain of custody" argument is a false argument. Grasping at straws. |
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