See the thing about Rudy Giuliani is that he was already known to have previously spread Russia-backed propaganda from his prior little private expeditions to Russia on behalf of Donald Trump as his personal lawyer. So not only was there absolutely no reason to trust anything coming from him that couldn't be verified, there was overwhelm…
See the thing about Rudy Giuliani is that he was already known to have previously spread Russia-backed propaganda from his prior little private expeditions to Russia on behalf of Donald Trump as his personal lawyer. So not only was there absolutely no reason to trust anything coming from him that couldn't be verified, there was overwhelming evidence to suggest than anything coming from him might very well be more intentional deception from our adversaries.
And as it is, the intimation that there was evidence of criminality by Joe Biden on the laptop was completely false, so people getting outraged about how a "legitimate" story was "suppressed" before an an election are basically complaining that a precisely-timed political oppo dump wasn't allowed to deceive people to its full potential like it could have if legitimate news organizations had shown the same credulousness they did in 2016 with Jim Comey's abundance-of-caution notification to Congress on the matter of Huma Abdein laptop (which, of course, turned out to be nothing). Thankfully, they learned their lesson.
In the end, given how much the story blew up after Twitter prevented people from clicking on the NYP story for a whole twenty four hours before reversing its decision, it's questionable whether any aspect of the story was really "suppressed". But at least the mainstream media didn't treat it like an unqualified scandal, the first of a presumed Joe Biden presidential administration rather than an entirely suspect potential political hit job. Because that's absolutely what it was, regardless of the fact that the laptop was real.
See the thing about Rudy Giuliani is that he was already known to have previously spread Russia-backed propaganda from his prior little private expeditions to Russia on behalf of Donald Trump as his personal lawyer. So not only was there absolutely no reason to trust anything coming from him that couldn't be verified, there was overwhelming evidence to suggest than anything coming from him might very well be more intentional deception from our adversaries.
And as it is, the intimation that there was evidence of criminality by Joe Biden on the laptop was completely false, so people getting outraged about how a "legitimate" story was "suppressed" before an an election are basically complaining that a precisely-timed political oppo dump wasn't allowed to deceive people to its full potential like it could have if legitimate news organizations had shown the same credulousness they did in 2016 with Jim Comey's abundance-of-caution notification to Congress on the matter of Huma Abdein laptop (which, of course, turned out to be nothing). Thankfully, they learned their lesson.
In the end, given how much the story blew up after Twitter prevented people from clicking on the NYP story for a whole twenty four hours before reversing its decision, it's questionable whether any aspect of the story was really "suppressed". But at least the mainstream media didn't treat it like an unqualified scandal, the first of a presumed Joe Biden presidential administration rather than an entirely suspect potential political hit job. Because that's absolutely what it was, regardless of the fact that the laptop was real.