By the end of the day, the bombshell-that-never-was died a quiet, miserable death after a flurry of factcheckers at legitimate media outlets ripped it to pieces.
Early yesterday morning, the stridently pro-Trump tabloid New York Post breathlessly "broke" what they hyped as email "proof" that Biden had met with a Ukrainian he has said he never met. That was supposed to be proof positive that Biden pressured Ukraine into doing him and his family favors.
The tabloid admitted shortly after going to press that they'd never actually seen originals of the emails so no headers could be checked. Worse still, the images of the supposed emails they used to illustrate their "scoop" were obviously Photoshopped and badly so because the resolution in one part of an image doesn't even match other parts of the same image.
The provenance on the emails is equally laughable. Supposedly they came from Biden's son's laptop that an unknown person left in a computer repair shop in Delaware, run by a blind man who also happens to be a manic conspiracy theorist and major Trump booster.
The computer shop supposedly never bothered to get contact information from the person who allegedly dropped off the laptop for repair and then never bothered to pick up. What sort of repair shop does that? And who actually fixes the computers, given the place is owned and run by a blind man? When he was interviewed later in the day, the man spoke incoherently to actual reporters as he ranted and raved about various conspiracy theories.
From him, the contents of the laptop supposedly made their way to the tabloid via Trump's former campaign manager, the now indicted Steve Bannon, and Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. And better yet, the "scoop" was written for the tabloid by one of Sean Hannity's producers. As you probably know, Hannity is a Fox News personality who is closer to Trump than his undershorts.
The only people fooled by this clumsy garbage are people who are already planning to vote for Trump anyway.
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