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A Stink That Can’t Pass the Sniff Test
There are two take-aways about Joe Biden and his influence-peddling crackhead son Hunter. The first story is the extent to which Hunter’s murky deals were a family affair, and that story is being chipped into piece-by-piece from examination of the hard drive of his old laptop, which he abandoned in April 2019 at a Delaware repair shop.
The second story concerns the truly desperate attempts of the mainstream US print, TV and social media, with the Australian Broadcasting Commission in tow, to put a lid on the Bidens’ scandal. President Trump’s favorite medium is Twitter and that social media outfit’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, is officially de-platforming all citations of the New York Post’s laptop exposes. Moreover, Twitter is locking out the accounts of those who do try to recycle the Post’s story. Twitter’s locked-out roll-call – I’m not making this up – includes White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and, two hours before the second Trump/Biden debate, the…
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