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Is there anything that's only on the laptop because creating an account and using a profile picture that was already leaked to the media seems like a pretty simple way to pin it.
Again fuck hunter I'm not carrying an ounce of water for him but that sounds like some project Veritas levels of proof.
The geolocation thing seems pretty concrete, and im absolutely not saying he wasnt taking videos of himself smoking crack and banging sex workers (im also not saying thats that bad of a thing) but I'm really having a hard time buying that he banged a relative and then uploaded a video of it to a public pornhub account with her fave visble and a profile picture of him, then brought the computer, logged into that account to a sleazy Maga fly by night blind computer repair man with Rudy's contact info.
The profile picture from the account, the screenshots of the account being logged into, the video that was leaked to Fox News witch matches the account profile picture, the all come from the laptop leak. And yes, the laptop, on some level, appears to be real and Hunter Biden is that stupid. The laptop had lots of personal information on it. The account was also created before the media frenzy.
New York Times acknowledging the veracity of the Hunter Biden laptop leak with a seperate investigation
While I agree with you on the stuff about incest or pedophilia likely being Qanon conspiracies, the laptop leak, and the files and information associated with it, appear to be real and match evidence used federal investigations, even if Giuliani screwed up the handling of the evidence.