The Russian Attack
It turns out the whole Hunter Biden affair was, from the start, a Russian intelligence operation. From Talking Points Memo’s morning briefing:
The implications of this Russian operation are staggering, especially for the willing Republicans and right-wing media stooges who were the useful idiots propagating the disinformation for years.
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We’re nearly a decade into Putin’s sustained, unrelenting attack on American democracy through misinformation and mischief. Among other things, the Republican Party and its standard bearer have been successfully enmeshed in it and thoroughly compromised. When this all began, Putin in his wildest imagination could not have conceived of this level of success.
Internet villainy has never been more significant.