Hacker News Reader

Comment by patrickaljord | Hacker News Reader

Here's the article for those wondering https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden...

This is a colossal failure of a scam to discredit Biden. There was no chain of custody, the proported email had tons of tell tale signs of being faked, and NYPost posted exif data that undermined their whole claim. They even used ints for ids allowing a lot of unpublished docs out.

https://twitter.com/russelneiss/status/1316398928850452481

https://twitter.com/russelneiss/status/1316402052885606400

https://twitter.com/marcusjcarey/status/1316386740794425344

National Review is part of the disinfo apparatus. Take anything they say with a pound of salt.

The screenshot of the email being displayed by the Apple Mail client does look a bit odd. May have been edited by the NYPost to show the names along with the email address?

/edit: actually, it does format in that way, but only when you export the mail as PDF from Apple Mail, not in the client itself

Anyway, my 2 cents having worked with many Russians and Ukranians: the overall tone, writing style and vocabulary used does not read like its from a native russian speaker.

TechCrunch seems to agree w/ me on most of these points.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/14/suspect-provenance-of-hunt...

If I were to see a dump of the raw email headers from a trusted chain of custody, I would feel entirely different about the matter.

One of those tweets has has reply debunking it.

The other makes a specious claim about implied claims of timestamps that no one made.

They are complaining about the format of the email, but don’t seem to realize that the client is the OS X Mail app.

Interesting also to note that comments like yours pointing out the flimsiness of the evidence are being heavily censored by HN.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com