Hello, it's Miranda, and I'm introducing a new weekly feature to the feed.

It's something a little more topical and more to do with my day-to-day job as a columnist for the New York Post when I zoom in on a topic that I think will interest you.

It's a bit of a mini episode to start off

your week. This one is a subject close to my heart and I hope to yours. The election interference

in October 2020 by a nefarious group of 51 former intelligence officials, including a former CIA director John Brennan,

these people falsely claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.

They knew it wasn't true, which is why they parsed their words so sneakily to give them

plausible deniability many years later.

The FBI had had the laptop for almost a year by that stage and had confirmed it belonged

to Joe Biden's wayward son Hunter, who was then 50 years old and a crackhead.

The FBI forensics Lab had also concluded that

the laptop had not been hacked and had not had anything added to it. They said that it was good

to go in a court of law. And sure enough, in June 2024, the laptop was admitted into evidence

in Hunter's gun trial in Delaware.

He was later convicted by a jury, and I was there that day when that laptop was carried

aloft by the prosecutors and shown to the jury. As it was, the original laptop wrapped in plastic.

Now, the Dirty 51 letter was crucial to keeping voters in the dark

in those two weeks before the 2020 election, to make sure that they did not know about the

laptop and the evidence that it contained of Joe Biden and his family's corrupt influence

peddling schemes in which they ranked in

tens of millions of dollars from Ukraine and China and Kazakhstan and Russia and elsewhere around

the world during the time that Joe was vice president. Now John Brennan, who was, as I said,

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