Posts Made By: James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

You've listed a number of the lies that you say you fell for, but that surely doesn't surprise me as I've said all along that you have acted as a tool for the left.  They play you like a fiddle and you respond like Pavlov's dog after the bell is rung.

Why isn't it surprising to me that you are so gullible?

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

So you are the smart one who believes this appropriate "chain of custody"?:

"Rudy Giuliani provided the materials to the New York Post after they were allegedly found on a water-damaged[50] MacBook Pro left at The Mac Shop, a Wilmington, Delaware, computer repair business owned by John Paul Mac Isaac.[51] Mac Isaac obtained the laptop in April 2019, claiming it had been dropped off by a man who identified himself as Hunter Biden and requested that the data on the damaged laptop be recovered.[1][52][53] Mac Isaac also said that he is legally blind and could not be sure if the person who supposedly left the laptop was actually Hunter Biden.[1]"

"Mac Isaac contacted Giuliani, who he said was his "lifeguard"—voicing credence to the conspiracy theory that the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign was behind the murder of campaign worker Seth Rich.[54] Steve Bannon informed the New York Post of the laptop,[55] and he and Giuliani delivered a copy of the supposed laptop hard drive to the publication.[56] Weeks before, Bannon had boasted on Dutch television that he had Hunter Biden's hard drive.[56]"

"PolitiFact wrote in June 2021: "Over time, there has been less doubt that the laptop did in fact belong to Hunter Biden", concluding that the laptop "was real in the sense that it exists, but it didn't prove much", as "Nothing from the laptop has revealed illegal or unethical behavior by Joe Biden as vice president with regard to his son's tenure as a director for Burisma".[26] PolitiFact states that it is possible that "copies of a laptop" were obtained, instead of the actual laptop.[26] PolitiFact states that the Daily Mail published nude photos of Hunter Biden from the laptop, as well as other content focused on Hunter Biden's drug use and legal issues, but notes that Hunter Biden had already publicized his drug issues.[26]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controversy

What's your source, Rich, The Townhall TipSheet?

Originally Posted by James Lacey

As I said, I never said the entire story was a lie or that the laptop was not Hunter's. However, I questioned the laptop's chain of custody and its information. The quote above does nothing to change my claim. As I said, the NYPost is not a good journalistic source. The Blaze is the worst of the worst. Almost all the other sources you quote are awful, and you have zero standing to be critical of other people's sources.

You conveniently forgot to list the post in the same thread where I said:


Posted 10/19/2020 12:58AM | Edited 10/19/2020 01:05AM#25
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Originally Posted by Mel Maki
Why do you think they have not said, "The emails are not Hunter's."
Or, "That is not Hunter's computer."

Mel,

I don't think anyone denies they are Hunter's. There is enough material there to indicate some of what is being produced is authentic clearly. How much of it is authentic, and how much of it is foreign intelligence generated malarkey, though? It's a classic play to hack some authentic material and then intersperse it with compromising lies to lend credibility to the lie.


If anyone cares, below is where the post Rich is claiming "proves" I said the entire Hunter laptop story was a lie.

https://astromart.com/forums/commentary-careful-read-the-terms-of-service/politics/town-halls?page=1#post175105

Originally Posted by James Lacey

Jim, I've read quite a bit about COVID and its origins, and I think the lab leak hypothesis is overblown and not supported by the available evidence. To be clear, I'm not saying it's impossible, just in case Rich wants to come back five years later and claim I said the lab leak theory was a lie, but I still find it unlikely, and so do most experts and scientists, as far as I know.

A Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee issued a report in August 2021 stating that they believed the virus's origin was an accidental lab leak. This stirred up more lab leak sentiment at the time, as did a host of other government reports that followed, but as I said, as far as I know, most experts and scientists think the lab leak origin is unlikely. I don't have any reason to prefer a lab leak over zoonosis, and I fully realize that finding the origin of COVID is vital so we can be better prepared to prevent another similar event. So, in short, I disagree that a lab leak is the favored theory. It may be popular in some circles, but I don't think it's a mainstream opinion among the scientific community.

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

My guess is that you only reject the Russian collusion argument on a legal language basis. You and I know full well Russia interfered and Trump egged them on and encouraged it. Not collusion in the legal sense, but certainly BS substantively.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

I understand what you are saying. But Davis and MAGA will cling to their right-wing disinformation and conspiracies regardless of whatever counter-evidence or opinion anyone offers.

It's impressive that Hillary's emails still get traction given how egregious and awful Trump's handling of classified material was, and also given the recent Signal app screw up by Hegseth and Waltz. But, as we know, Rich and MAGA have a thousand reasons why it's OK that Trump illegally took, insecurely stored, showed off, and refused to return classified material for over a year after he left office. Whereas even though Clinton did not engage in systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information, it's somehow so much worse than what Trump did.

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

To be fair, nobody at the time knew that Trump was way too stupid and incompetent to execute anything resembling collusion.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I didn't see Clinton's campaign manager activerly colluding with a known Russian spy like Trump's manager did while providing him with campaign data, too...

"The U.S. intelligence community has developed new information about Konstantin Kilimnik, whom they call a Russian spy, that leads them to believe the associate of ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort passed internal Trump campaign polling and strategy information to Russian intelligence services, two U.S. officials say."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-has-new-intel-manafort-friend-kilimnik-gave-trump-n1264371

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I didn't see Clinton's campaign manager activerly colluding with a known Russian spy like Trump's manager did while providing him with campaign data, too...

"The U.S. intelligence community has developed new information about Konstantin Kilimnik, whom they call a Russian spy, that leads them to believe the associate of ex-Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort passed internal Trump campaign polling and strategy information to Russian intelligence services, two U.S. officials say."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/u-s-has-new-intel-manafort-friend-kilimnik-gave-trump-n1264371

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Here, educate yourself: