I'm John Batchel with my colleague and friend Thetis McCutter, my co-host,

to have a conversation with our colleague and friend Andrew McCarthy at the National Review Online,

the unknowns of the power of the Justice Department,

in conjoined with the pardon issued by the President of the United States in these last days for Hunter Biden that begins in

2014 and extends to now I believe and the puzzle is why that large amount of time what happened

Andy I I puzzle about the computer that was always in the news as real or not real the The information on the computer I never paid that much attention to.

There was a lot of salacious stuff.

But it suggested that there were, the suggestion was there was a lot of evidence on that computer.

Do we know who has possession of that and who investigated the suggestion of links

to foreign powers?

Yeah. The computer, John, the reason they talk about links to foreign powers is there is

a lot of salacious material in the data of the computer, as you say, but there are also

an awful lot of financial records

and email communications that are business related and the like, which provided a lot of evidence

regarding the Biden family scheme. And the interesting thing about this is the claim that

it was Russian disinformation never had a shred of credibility to it or corroboration of it.

And interestingly, the FBI had the computer from the beginning, I believe they actually got it in December of 2019.

And this is very important because 11 months later, during the election campaign of 2020, the FBI was strongly suggesting to the big tech, you know, the platforms, Twitter, Facebook twitter facebook and the like was strongly suggesting to

them that if there was breaking derogatory news about the biden's it would be russian it would

likely be russian disinformation at the time that was obviously directed at the new york post

reporting about this computer.

And what I would point out is when that happened, the FBI had already had that computer for 10 or 11 months

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