Cooter wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:38 pm
njbill wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:28 pm
Cooter wrote: ↑Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:51 pm
I just watched a little clip of Joe Biden. He seems ready to go on with the debate. He refers to the laptop incident as a smear campaign, but does not say that the laptop isn't his son's. He also doesn't say that the emails are fake.
How can Joe comment on the laptop or emails if he hasn’t seen them.
He could ask his son Hunter if he had lost his laptop.
You know something like:
"Hunter did you leave your laptop at a computer store in Delaware and then lose it?"
The answer appears likely to have been "yes".
So now Joe can't refute the laptop without probably being shown to be a liar. Thus he calls it a "smear campaign", which is true whether the laptop is Hunter's or not, yet tends to cast doubt on the laptop being the real deal.
- any gamer like myself recognizes pretty quickly that this is a very good answer for Joe to give if the laptop is his son's, dumber people probably won't be able to see this.
Even if Hunter lost his laptop, I would never let Joe say that the one Rudy has or had was Hunter’s without seeing it. One of the theories running around is that Rudy and his Russian confederates have salted the laptop with a lot of phony stuff, including fake emails.
So if Joe says the laptop was Hunter’s, it then becomes more difficult to disassociate himself from any inauthentic contents.
Actually, I would not have Joe talking to Hunter about this. Keep them separate. Only tell Joe what he needs to know.
This is a Trump and Rudy production. The burden is still on them to prove what they have is authentic. And, if it is, to persuade the American people that it means anything in the election.
Joe will no doubt have a good, solid speech about this tomorrow night. It will not be kind to Donald Trump. Nor should it.
But, I agree. What Joe has said so far has been very smart.
Keeps all of his options open.