Putin's guy in the Trump campaign...

[The Barbarian]

Not who you might think...

BREAKING: BOMBSHELL: GIULIANI IS PUTIN'S USEFUL IDIOT: "U.S. intelligence agencies believed Russian agents were 'working' Trump’s personal lawyer to disseminate LIES about the Bidens. Trump was warned that Giuliani was being used to feed Russian misinformation to the president, the former officials said."

U.S. intelligence agencies warned the White House last year that President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani was the target of an influence operation by Russian intelligence, according to four former officials familiar with the matter.

The warnings were based on multiple sources, including intercepted communications, that showed Giuliani was interacting with people tied to Russian intelligence during a December 2019 trip to Ukraine, where he was gathering information that he thought would expose corrupt acts by former vice president Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Just the kind of surprise that Trump doesn't need right now.

 

[annabenedetti]

 

[The Barbarian]

What happened to that guy? Once he was "America's mayor." Now he's a laughingstock and a pawn for Russian interference in our elections.

 

[The Barbarian]

US investigates if recently found emails are tied to Russian disinformation effort targeting Biden
US authorities are investigating whether recently published emails that purport to detail the business dealings of Joe Biden’s son in Ukraine and China are connected to an ongoing Russian disinformation effort targeting the former vice president’s campaign, a US official and a congressional source briefed on the matter said.

The conservative-leaning New York Post claimed in a series of articles this week that it obtained “smoking-gun” emails about Hunter Biden and his dealings in Ukraine. CNN has not determined the authenticity of the emails.
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The specific new allegations touch on the same topics as the Kremlin’s ongoing disinformation campaign against the Bidens, which the US intelligence community said this summer was intended to weaken Biden’s candidacy against Trump.

The FBI is leading the investigation, the official and congressional source said. NBC was first to report the inquiry.

The probe is part of a larger investigation into Russian disinformation that dates back to before the impeachment inquiry last fall. The alleged disinformation campaign is aimed at tying the former vice president to his son’s dealings with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, according to US officials familiar with the matter.

The New York Post says it obtained the emails through two Trump confidants: His personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his former chief strategist Steve Bannon.

Giuliani has openly coordinated with a known Russian agent to promote disinformation about the Bidens. The Washington Post reported Thursday the White House, and Trump personally, were warned in 2019 that Giuliani “was being used to feed Russian misinformation” to the President. Separately, Bannon was recently charged by the Justice Department with orchestrating a million-dollar fraud scheme and accused of deceiving thousands of donors to his nonprofit.

In a Fox News interview Friday, Giuliani said Trump never mentioned the warning to him and that he hasn’t been told by US intelligence officials that he is peddling Russian disinformation.

Several experts on foreign disinformation quickly warned that there were major red flags about the articles published by the New York Post, including Giuliani’s involvement, the changing stories about how the emails were obtained, and the digital metadata of images posted by the newspaper.
https://www.wishtv.com/news/politic...ussian-disinformation-effort-targeting-biden/

You knew they'd be trying to cook up something. Now, it seems to have backfired on them.

 

[ok doser]

CNN has not determined the authenticity of the emails

I'm sure they're working furiously to correct that :darwinsm:

 

[The Barbarian]

The NYP published some of the leaked emails as PDFs. The metadata show that the emails were generated from Mail on MacOSX (and likely unmodified after the PDF was generated). Two PDFs were created about six months after the alleged repair shop data recovery, on 29/9 and 10/10.
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The Biden Campaign, so far, has denied one specific detail: the meeting described in this email, displayed up-front in the NYP story. Note that this email was the only email displayed as an image file, not a (unmodified) PDF printout from Mail in MacOSX.
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The metadata for this image show that it was edited and prepared for publication with Photoshop yesterday afternoon. Using an image is perhaps cleaner than a PDF embed (so this might be an editorial decision). But the formatting inconsistency certainly raises even more suspicion
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Giuliani is now changing the Hunter Biden laptop story. The shop owner told the NY Post he couldn't identify who dropped off the laptop. Giuliani, who wasn't there, said on Sirius XM today "was left by Hunter Biden, in an inebriated, heavily inebriated state with the merchant."
https://twitter.com/RidT/status/1316833308110721024

I wonder after decent forensic experts look over this stuff, what will happen.

But I have a pretty good guess.