Ratcliffe, during an exclusive interview on FOX Business’ “Mornings with Maria,” was asked about the allegations from Schiff, D-Calif., who over the weekend said that the Hunter Biden emails suggesting Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had knowledge of, and was allegedly involved in, his son’s foreign business dealings.
“It’s funny that some of the people who complain the most about intelligence being politicized are the ones politicizing the intelligence,” Ratcliffe said. “Unfortunately, it is Adam Schiff who said the intelligence community believes the Hunter Biden laptop and emails on it are part of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
He added: “Let me be clear: the intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that. And we have shared no intelligence with Adam Schiff, or any member of Congress.”
Ratcliffe went on to say that it is “simply not true.”
“Hunter Biden’s laptop is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign,” Ratcliffe said, adding again that “this is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.”
- The laptop was turned over to our intelligence community
- The intelligence community verifies that the laptop does exist
- The intelligence community has not denied anything being reported
- Neither Hunter or Joe Biden (or any affiliates) have denied the existence of the laptop
- Neither Hunter or Joe Biden (or any affiliates) have denied that the emails exist
- Neither Hunter or Joe Biden (or any affiliates) have claimed that the emails are fake
What we have is a non-denial denial. We simply have the Biden campaign suggesting (probably correctly) that such a meeting between Burisma executives and Joe Biden was ever reported on his official schedule as Vice President. Of course, not putting a clandestine meeting on your official schedule would seem a no-brainer.
What did anyone expect to see? The Vice President have something in his personal agenda that at 11:00 Thursday morning, he was meeting with Ukrainian energy executives as a means to use his influence to score his drug-using loser son a 50K/month job? How would you even write that up.
Now the only real means to disavow this story at this point is to suggest that it doesn't matter. Obviously to many people out there, something like this really "doesn't matter" since many on the left would still vote for Joe Biden even if pictures of him having a threesome with an underage boy and farm animal surfaced. Many are going to see Joe Biden as the better alternative to Trump regardless.
But if you are voting for Biden, because you believe he is a straight shooter who is above doing anything dishonest, illegal, or you believed he is always someone to tell you the truth, then this "might" influence your decision.
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LAPTOP FROM RUSSIA?
Ron Johnson, the Republican Senator who spent his Fourth of July in Moscow in 2018, is now implying there is child pornography on Hunter Biden’s laptop. He’s pressuring the FBI to look into it at the same time Don Jr. is claiming his father has to break up the FBI in his next term because of the “Deep State” his father has had four years to eradicate.
Here I'm debating time, I'm waiting
Come the wake
Free fall the cannonball volcanic
shatters on the lake
You settle down,
Where you runnin' to?
What else can you prove?
How many, many more until you lose?
You thought a better plan could
Shake this shadow land
This frozen tundra hand
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight,
Roaring into firelight,
Scorching up the charlatans
Until it's city wide
All the people mobilize,
Nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Dear I have missed your sigh
since crystal skies moved on
Peer out through shadow's doubt
I had no passion all along
You settle down. where you running to?
What else can you prove?
Is this all a game?
Was this all a ruse?
I've waited by the phone.
Cold as river stone
Anxiety. Alone.
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight,
Roaring into firelight,
Scorching up the charlatans
Until it's city wide
All the people mobilize,
Nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Ring around the lake.
Ring around the lake.
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
I'm turning it from shade to light
Hold it up to candlelight,
Roaring into firelight,
Scorching up the charlatans
Until it's city wide
All the people mobilize,
Nothing left to polarize
And nothing left to fake
Right on time, will you stay
Through the pouring rain?
Right on time, through the night,
Your laughter is my light
Right on time, desperation song
Right on time, desperation song
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Look how the leftist here don't care about Joe Biden corruprion.
the lap top of Hunters is real.
So real, Biden's Attorneys have moved in court to get it back.
Kelly Jane Torrance
@KJTorrance
NY Post scoop: The man who might be the next president lied. NYT scoop: One of the story’s writers didn’t put his byline on it!
And it was a pretty significant lie.
FAKE NEWS tripping all over itself to divert from real story about Biden corruption and criminal conduct.
Why hasn't Hunter or Joe after 4 days (or is it 5) deny that it is his laptop or that the emails legitimate?
You have the right to remain silent.
I THINK THERE ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT THINGS GOING ON THAN THIS BIDEN SCANDAL NOTHING BURGER
WASHINGTON POST:
Trump Puts Vulnerable Senators In Tough Spot
10:15 am
“In competitive Senate races across the country, including states where Trump remains popular, Republican incumbents are facing a conundrum: how to prove their pro-Trump bona fides to a MAGA movement that sees many longtime Republicans as insufficiently pure while stopping the hemorrhaging among suburban moderates who wonder why they have enabled the president.
“The result for Ernst and as many as a half-dozen of her GOP colleagues may be the worst of both worlds, in which they risk alienating energized Trump backers if they criticize the president but then, if they stick with him, lose some centrist voters who have soured on Trump and are open to voting for a Democrat.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Suburban Women Lead the Revolt Against Trump
10:00 am
“For many of those women, the past four years have meant frustration, anger and activism — a political awakening that powered women’s marches, the #MeToo movement and the victories of record numbers of female candidates in 2018. That energy has helped create the widest gender gap — the political divide between men and women — in recent history. And it has started to show up in early voting as women are casting their ballots earlier than men. In Michigan, women have cast nearly 56% of the early vote so far, and 68% of those were Democrats.
“That could mean trouble for Trump, not just in Oakland County but also in suburban battlegrounds outside Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Phoenix.”
CNN:
Trump Stoops to New Lows as Infections Spike
9:45 am
“President Trump and the pandemic he is supposed to be fighting are running out of control with the two weeks until Election Day shaping up as among the most ugly and divisive periods ever ahead of a presidential vote."
POLITICO:
Biden Would Revamp Intelligence Community
9:30 am
“Trump’s actions, and the endless partisan battles over the Russia probe and impeachment, have left the intelligence community bruised and battered. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s advisers and allies in Congress are already thinking about what a heavy lift it will be to restore morale inside the agencies, legitimacy on Capitol Hill and public trust in the intelligence community’s leadership should Biden defeat Trump in November.”
VP Biden on video bragging about protecting his son in Uikraine is priceless evidence.
Joe in that video tells the Ukraine government, no loan unless you protect my Son.
He's an unqualified hack
WASHINGTON — During his confirmation hearing in May to oversee the nation’s spy agencies, John Ratcliffe, then a lawmaker from Texas, promised senators skeptical of his vocal support for President Trump that he would be “entirely apolitical as the director of national intelligence.”
A few months into his tenure, Mr. Ratcliffe has emerged as anything but. He has approved selective declassifications of intelligence that aim to score political points, left Democratic lawmakers out of briefings, accused congressional opponents of leaks, offered Republican operatives top spots in his headquarters and made public assertions that contradicted professional intelligence assessments.
None of the moves have dismayed his critics, or intelligence officials inside the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency, as much as Mr. Ratcliffe’s decision to release unverified intelligence last week that mentioned Hillary Clinton. Intelligence professionals said the material could be Russian disinformation, but even if its substance — that Russian intelligence had information that Mrs. Clinton’s 2016 campaign planned to tie Mr. Trump to the Kremlin’s election hacks — were true, it hardly demonstrated anything nefarious about her.
Byron York
@ByronYork
On CNN, Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff says New York Post Hunter Biden story 'comes from the Kremlin.' Anchor seems to agree. Would be more persuasive if they provided evidence that 1) story is false, and 2) it 'comes from the Kremlin.'
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1317432785070706688
FAKE NEWS with lying Schiff.
Schiff and Strzok always pop up on the wrong side of issues. Constantly. Almost like an insurance policy.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
@SarahHuckabee
The liberal media clearly hates @realDonaldTrump more than they love a free and independent press, and openly serve as the propaganda arm of the Biden campaign, throwing away what little remained of their credibility to interfere in an election and try to help their candidate win
Where's Hunter ??? His laptop is kind of like OJ's glove.
Scott, this story is not going to work against Biden. If the director of the CIA had stepped forward to support this Russian hack on our election system.
John Ratcliffe, then a lawmaker from Texas, who had no intelligence agencies, he's a hack. Like Bill Barr. And since Barr didn't indict Obama and Biden and Hillary Clinton, this is the last desperat attempt to get an October surprise!
This story isn't gaining traction, outside the Fox news and The New York Post that is owed by Robert Murdoch.
This is rather amusing!
If the director of the CIA had stepped forward to support this Russian hack on our election system, it would be credible. But Ratcliffe is a hack
For three days, Joe Biden refused to say a word about The Post’s exclusive stories last week linking him to his son Hunter’s business deals in Ukraine and China.
It wasn’t ’til 7:45 p.m. Friday at the Detroit airport that the former vice president briefly stopped for questions and CBS reporter Bo Erickson asked about the damning emails found on Hunter’s laptop, which was abandoned last April at a Mac repair shop.
“I have no response,” snapped Joe. “Another smear campaign. Right up your alley.”
A video of Joe’s remarks on Erickson’s Twitter account has been viewed 6 million times.
But for some in the media, Erickson was at fault for asking the question.
“Bo, this is your News Director,” replied Steve Holzer, a UCLA journalism instructor and news director who has worked at CBS in the past, but not currently, according to his LinkedIn profile. “The right question is, what do you think of the report that Rudy Giuliani used Russian disinformation to try to smear your family 19 days before an election?”
That tweet tells you everything about the dishonest response to our story from much of the establishment media.
Russian disinformation? This is how the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, etc., run protection for the Biden campaign. They have ignored or maligned our stories, and claimed the emails were “hacked.”
We published an email showing Hunter arranged a meeting in 2015 between his VP dad and one of his senior colleagues at corrupt energy company Burisma, which was paying him up to $83,000 a month.
Neither Joe nor Hunter Biden has disputed that the laptop belongs to Hunter or that the material we have published from the laptop is genuine. Joe’s campaign admitted to Politico that an “informal” meeting with Burisma may have occurred.
This is new evidence that Joe participated in his family’s cash-for-influence scheme with shady foreign companies.
Yet the rest of the media is helping the Bidens discredit our reporting using the usual suspects, like James Clapper, who told CNN it was “textbook Soviet Russian tradecraft.”
https://nypost.com/2020/10/18/media-avoiding-the-posts-hunter-biden-stories-as-much-as-joe-devine/
if none of this is true, the Biden's should've -
1) vehemently denied it
and
2) initiated a lawsuit against the NY Post.
neither of these two things has happened.
i wonder why.
See the top post at 9:28 about putting vulnerable Senators in a tough spot. Then read this:
DAILY BEAST:
Trump Takes Names as Republicans Jump Ship
10:56 am
“Two individuals who have spoken to Trump say the president has expressed suspicion that members of his own party believe he will be defeated by Joe Biden. That sense of paranoia has been fed by the president’s aides and confidants, who have flagged news coverage for him of Republican politicians either openly criticizing his conduct or else trying to distance themselves from a looming possible electoral bloodbath.
“According to one of the sources with direct knowledge, the president is already contemplating retribution.”
1: The story is not going anywhere.
2: The first amendment.
I THINK THERE ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT THINGS GOING ON THAN THIS BIDEN SCANDAL NOTHING BURGER
You mean opinion pieces from liberal journalists linked by T. Goddard?
Why, James... would you call this a "nothing burger"?
We both know that if one of the Trump children was employed by a foreign company like Hunter was that everyone and their brother would just assume that they used and are using daddy's influence to garner such employment.
Hell, people are upset that Trump and his children still "profit" from the Trump organization, even though that existed prior to and will exist long after Trump's presidency.
Just imagine if a Russian energy Company decided to hire Tiffany Trump as a member of their "board of directors" and paid her $50K/month. T. Goddard would link nothing but stories and opinions about this...
Another one has jumped the ship.
A member of Republican leadership in the US Senate has likened his relationship with Donald Trump to a marriage, and said that he was “maybe like a lot of women who get married and think they’re going to change their spouse, and that doesn’t usually work out very well”.
Trump blasts Sasse for predicting Senate Republican bloodbath
The Texas senator John Cornyn’s comments, to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, are the latest instance of a Republican under electoral pressure seeking to distance himself from an unpopular president, however gingerly, as polling day looms. Democrats are favoured to take the Senate, potentially leading to unified government in Washington.
He's in a very serious risk
Desperation
Blogger Roger Amick said...
If the director of the CIA had stepped forward to support this Russian hack on our election system, it would be credible. But Ratcliffe is a hack
really alky?
here's the difference -
Haspel at CIA has blocked access to russia-gate evidence, banking on a Trump loss to keep it hidden.
Ratcliffe, like Grennell before him has de-classified a fucking mountain of info, the sole purpose of keeping hidden is to aid the Biden campaign.
i'll take transparency anyday.
and the only hack in this thread is YOU.
stop fucking PLAGIARIZING ALKY.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Monday said the information contained on Hunter Biden’s laptop revealed by The Post last week “is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.”
During an appearance on Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria,” Ratcliffe shot down allegations by Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, that emails showing former Vice President Joe Biden knew about his son’s business dealings in Ukraine are a “smear” created by Moscow."
Alky is always so spectacularly wrong
Joe Concha
@JoeConchaTV
The Biden campaign has called a lid until Thursday.
Abigail Marone
@abigailmarone
15 days until the election.
Well yesterday some brave "reporter" shouted out a question about what flavor ice cream he was eating while the rest were silent.
Guess nothing else for our "free press" to ask about.
Probably want to get on Biden's good list on who he calls for questions.
You mean opinion pieces from liberal journalists linked by T. Goddard?
Why, James... would you call this a "nothing burger"?
Seminary and English degrees equal ZERO critical thinking skill all rote thought.
Fox News Passed on Hunter Biden Story
11:59 am
“Fox News was first approached by Rudy Giuliani to report on a tranche of files alleged to have come from Hunter Biden’s unclaimed laptop left at a Delaware computer repair shop, but that the news division chose not to run the story unless or until the sourcing and veracity of the emails could be properly vetted,” Mediaite reports.
AND APPARENTLY IT COULDN'T BE.
Seminary and English degrees equal ZERO critical thinking skill all rote thought.
And degrees in partying, fucking, and football games from UGA are as worthless as your career!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!
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