Spies are trying to influence the election — US spies, that is
During last Thursday’s presidential debate, Joe Biden lofted a “Hail Mary” pass from the five-yard-line that had no chance of landing for a score, but he flung it anyway, desperate to deflect Donald Trump’s mention of the now infamous laptop belonging to Biden’s son, Hunter — who soon may be inducted into the Hall of Fame of loose cannons.
Biden stunningly stated during the debate that the laptop — containing emails and text messages that raise troubling and embarrassing questions for the Democratic presidential nominee — was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
He said this, straight-faced, after a week of a steady stream of facts that established the laptop and its contents legitimately belong to his son. So why would Biden risk looking like a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist while on the biggest stage of his long political career?
Well, lo and behold, a sizable group of former executives of U.S. spy agencies earlier in the week had given Biden some top cover — thin as it might be — that he could use as a deflector shield when confronted with the uncomfortableness of the laptop’s existence.
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