The Tolerant Left at it again....again

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(10-22-2020, 09:36 AM)Mickeypoo Wrote: Well, Schiff and the entire Left MSM just lied to your face for days saying the Biden laptop was Russian disinformation just to cover for Biden.  Schiff didn't even have any facts to back it up.  Just straight up lied.  I would call that spreading disinformation.  Hell, CNN wouldn't even cover the long and exhaustive 7min FBI news conference yesterday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-spokesman-ratcliffe-purposefully-misrepresenting-comments-about-hunter-biden-laptop-story

Quote:A spokesman for Rep. Adam Schiff said the nation's top intelligence official is twisting the California Democrat's words to validate President Trump and his allies' attacks on Joe Biden and his son Hunter.


After Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, suggested the revelations found in emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden were a "smear" from the Kremlin, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe accused him of trying to use those in the intelligence community to leverage some kind of political narrative.


"Director Ratcliffe is purposefully misrepresenting Chairman Schiff's words in an effort to mislead the public and validate the latest attacks by President Trump and his allies on Vice President Biden," a statement by Schiff spokesman Patrick Boland read, according to CNN.

Schiff's spox responds w/ a statement that Ratcliffe is " is purposefully misrepresenting Chairman Schiff’s words in an effort to mislead the public." pic.twitter.com/GAeHc6NLsJ

— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) October 19, 2020

 

Boland also cited Ratcliffe's own warnings that disinformation from foreign actors, including Russia, would play a strong role in the 2020 election.

"The new wave of attacks we are seeing on Vice President Biden are consistent with the false and unsubstantiated narratives that the President, his personal lawyer, and a sanctioned Russian agent have been pushing for well over a year," Boland continued. "They appear intended to distract from recent reports that the White House, as early as December 2019, was made aware that Rudy Giuliani was being leveraged by Russian proxies as part of Kremlin efforts to interfere in our election."


Ratcliffe said the intelligence community didn't believe there was any evidence to suggest that the information coming from Hunter Biden's laptop is tied to a Russian disinformation campaign.


"In this case, apparently Chairman Schiff wants anything against his preferred political candidate deemed as not real and is using or attempting to use the intelligence community to say there’s nothing to see here," Ratcliffe said Monday morning on Fox Business. "Don’t drag the intelligence community into this. Hunter Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign."

Media reports have focused on revelations that have come from the contents of a laptop and hard drive that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden. They were left at a repair shop in Delaware last year, but the owner said they were never picked up.
A copy of the hard drive was provided to the FBI and to Giuliani, who later provided a copy to the New York Post.


Among the allegations against Hunter Biden is a meeting that supposedly took place between his father and a senior official at Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy firm where Hunter sat on the board while his father was vice president. The Biden campaign has denied that such a meeting took place based on "Biden’s official schedules from the time" but only as it was described in the New York Post.


Hunter Biden and his father have been the subject of a Republican-led Senate investigation for nearly a year. Schiff pegged claims of possible corruption as politically motivated, a claim that matches the response of the Biden campaign.

"We know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin," Schiff said. "That's been clear for well over a year now, that they've been pushing this false narrative about the vice president and his son."