re: #28 Hecuba’s daughter

CL’ed downstairs:

I know that someone managed to get copies of legitimate Hunter emails. But is there any evidence that the laptop itself is really his and that he abandoned it at a repair shop?

the most plausible hypothesis I’ve heard is that somebody cloned his hard-drive (snuck into his home or hotel room or something, or maybe it’s as doable as when I see spies on TV shows clone phones if they get close enough), stuck a bunch of stickers on a same-model laptop, sprinkled a bunch of fake stuff throughout, then made sure to leave it at a shop where the guy working the desk is legally blind and can’t possibly identify who brought it in.

Eventually it ended up with Rudy, who made a lot of pronouncements about it, but when NYT, WaPo, WSJ and CNN wanted access to have their own computer expeerts authenticate it, Rudy wouldn’t let it out of his hands for a minute. That’s why the media didn’t think they could run the story.