Disinformation By Popular Demand: How The Authenticity of Hunter s Laptop Became Immaterial JONATHAN TURLEY

It did not matter that the answer omitted the key assertion that this was not Hunter s laptop or emails or that he did not leave the computer with this store.

Recently, Washington Post columnist Thomas Rid  wrote said the quiet part out loud by telling the media:  We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation even if they probably aren t.

Let that sink in for a second. It does not matter if these are real emails and not Russian disinformation. They probably are real but should be treated as disinformation even though American intelligence has repeatedly rebutted that claim.  It does not even matter that the computer has seized the computer as evidence in a criminal fraud investigation or that a Biden confidant is now giving his allegations to the FBI under threat of criminal charges if he lies to investigators.

It simply does not matter. It is disinformation because it is simply inconvenient to treat it as real information.

via jonathanturley.org