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Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani shows images of flags and says Joe Biden is the mastermind behind the “Biden crime family.”
Behind the accusations is the hard drive of a computer that must have been forgotten by his son Hunter Biden.
Parts of the material ended up in the New York Post and were stopped by Facebook and Twitter.
People close to Joe Biden view the explosive data as a Russian disinformation operation.
The first articles appeared in the New York Post on Wednesday, making allegations that had long appeared in Republican circles – that Joe Biden used his role as vice president and Obama’s envoy on diplomatic affairs with Ukraine, to provide benefits and secure lucrative business contracts for his son Hunter Biden.
It was Donald Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj in the summer of 2019, in which he was accused of trying to pressure the country into launching an investigation into the Hunter Biden affairs, which was the basis of the judicial process of which he subsequently he was acquitted.
Hard drive copied
Now, less than three weeks before the elections, the question arises again. And it’s really taking over the conservative media and Republican circles.
The post in the New York Post is based on emails and images that must have been found on Hunter’s hard drive. The hard drive must have been copied from a computer that was sent to a computer company in Delaware for repair and was never retrieved. The store owner will deliver the material to an employee of Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, a former mayor of New York. This should have happened in 2019.
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New York Post publication on Hunter Biden’s hard drive.
According to Giuliani, the material must also be available at the FBI, but they must have chosen not to continue with the information.
In an email that Hunter Biden is said to have wrote in April 2014, about the time he took a seat on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, he makes a reference to “my boyfriend” and then refers, according to the New York Post, to his father Joe Biden.
The email was sent to then-business partner Devon Archer, who was already on the energy company’s board of directors. A week later, Joe Biden was in Ukraine and held a press conference with the Prime Minister.
“The news of my boyfriend’s travels should be viewed as part of our advice and strategy, but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote in the email according to the New York Post.
Advisor thank you
Another email published by the New York Post is from 2015. There, Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi thanks Hunter Biden “for the opportunity to meet his father.” It does not appear in the email if it refers to a meeting that has already taken place or if it is something that is planned in the future. But this contradicts Joe Biden’s earlier information that he was never involved in his son’s business contacts.
Pozharskyi is also said to have asked Hunter Biden for “advice on how to use his influence” to benefit the company, writes the New York Post.
According to the New York Post, Hunter Biden received just over 400,000 SEK a month from Burisma until April 2019, when he left the board.
The post has followed up with allegations about trade deals with an energy company in China in 2017. Hunter Biden is said to have received nearly SEK 100 million annually from the company’s billionaire owner to “open doors.”
Stopped by Facebook and Twitter
On Wednesday, the impact of the New York Post articles exploded when the giants Facebook and Twitter stopped broadcasting them on their platforms. Twitter even blocked the accounts of those who shared the articles. This affected the New York Post and also Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany.
Facebook has said the information requires fact-checking. Twitter said the post violates its rules that material cannot be constructed from pirated sources.
Trump himself has congratulated the New York Post for “exposing the massive corruption” surrounding Joe Biden. It has also used the controversy surrounding the social media giants to tweet about censorship and to threaten the tech giants with changing the 1996 legislation that protects sites from being held responsible for material posted by third parties.
Photo: Karl DeBlaker / AP
The president of the United States is now launching a censorship attack on Facebook and Twitter.
Central Trump attorney
At the center of the hard drive scandal and the person who provided the information to the New York Post is Trump’s friend and lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. In addition to parts of the material handled journalistically by the New York Post, he has published on his YouTube channel a 16-minute video in which he briefly accuses Joe and Hunter Biden, and several other named members of the family, of being a pure family. of gangsters. – “Biden crime family.”
In the video, he shows images of flags of different countries, businessmen, how big the money transactions have been and how they should be linked to Joe Biden. No source references are given to the far-reaching allegations. He also accuses Democrats of being driven by such strong hatred of Donald Trump that they don’t see how corrupt Joe Biden is.
The story is unique in that parts of the alleged scandal spread through one of America’s largest newspapers, the conservative New York Post, owned by Rubert Murdoch. But the most serious accusations are broadcast on his own channel.
Joe Biden’s campaign staff say in a statement that they have reviewed the then vice president’s schedule and found nothing to indicate a meeting with Burisma’s adviser was held, Politico says.
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Rudy Giuliani has posted a 16 minute video accusing Joe and Hunter Biden.
Russian operation
The statement also said that media inquiries, during court hearings and also by two Republican-led Senate committees, came to the same conclusion: that Joe Biden only carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and not he was involved in no nonsense.
“The Trump administration’s own representatives have testified under oath,” said spokesman Andrew Bates.
He also comments on the fact that the New York Post writes that they have not received any comments on information about Hunter Biden from Joe Biden’s staff.
Andrew Bates says the newspaper never specifically asked about the pillars of the allegations.
“And they definitely did not mention that Rudy Giuliani, whose discredited conspiracy theories and connections to people linked to Russian intelligence have been widely reported, claimed to have such material,” the statement said.
Several Joe Biden advisers Politico spoke with said they had never heard of the Ukrainian energy adviser and that a meeting had been held with the vice president.
– It’s a Russian disinformation operation. I feel comfortable saying that, says Michael Carpenter, who is close to Biden and is an expert on Russian issues, from Politico.
Anger among the Republicans
What Republicans, regardless of what is in the email and how it is interpreted, use in the fight for Donald Trump’s re-election is to crack down on Facebook and Twitter and their alleged support for Joe Biden as a threat to democracy. .
Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority Leader, says it’s completely reprehensible to block articles about the hard drive.
– There shouldn’t be any kind of speech police in this country. “I don’t think any monopoly should be allowed to decide who should speak,” he told Reuters in a speech in Marion, Kentucky.
He also supports Republican colleagues who want to call Twitter boss Jack Dorsey for questioning.
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