flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:25 pm
I've noticed you did not make one comment on the bullet points I wrote above. Which ones are untrue?
I'll comment on your bullet points. Pretty much all of them are untrue.
You persist in ignoring the plain language of the letter from the 51 experts. They said they didn't know if the emails were genuine (they made it a point of emphasizing that lack of knowledge) but were deeply suspicious of Russian involvement. You ignore the question of whether they had reason to be suspicious of Russian involvement. Considering the timing of the release, the nature of Giuliani's "evidence" and how he claimed that got to him, and Giuliani's and the NY Post's refusal to allow other media outlets or indeed any outside experts access to the "evidence," coupled with their knowledge of Russian disinformation campaigns, gave them ample reason to be suspicious of the information. Which is exactly what they said.
You also have a problem with news outlets trying to independently verify when one outlet breaks a major story out of the blue. That's standard procedure in journalism. There's also a big problem with your reasoning. Giuliani feeding the story to one right wing outlet after another before he found one that would publish it is apparently okay in your book. People giving their own opinion of that is not okay. If you listen to nightly news shows, they all put on a group of experts and the first question the host asks is usually, "what do you think of this new story..."
You play fast and loose with the word "interfere." Federal law makes various specific types of election interference illegal (voter intimidation, vote rigging, etc.) There is a statute that specifically makes it illegal for a foreign government or agent of a foreign government to employ "any covert, fraudulent, deceptive, or unlawful actions or attempted actions" to influence an election. Notably, that prohibition applies to foreign governments and their agents only, not domestic persons (if that were the case, every politician in America would probably be guilty of using deceptive actions to influence elections.) But even applying that definition to those 51 individuals, nothing they did was covert, fraudulent, deceptive, or unlawful.
The laptop story was so suspicious that Fox News and the Wall Street Journal refused to publish it because of lack of authentication. One of the Post writers who co-wrote the story refused to lend his name to the byline. You keep trying to turn this story into something it's not.