Refers to recent revelations that the primary source guy behind the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, the Twitter Files, and the GOP's effort to impeach Biden, etc, is, basically, a Russian intelligence operative, spreading disinformation to sabotage American democracy. Surprise, surprise!
Media organizations at first wouldn’t touch the story because they’d spent the previous four years kicking themselves for allowing themselves to become the promoters of a Russian election interference and disinformation campaign with the purloined DNC emails back in 2016. Since the Hunter Biden laptop stories had all the hallmarks of exactly the same thing somehow happening to pop up in the final days of the 2020, of course they were suspicious.
At worst, that initial resistance was very reasonable, given the record for 2016, even if it had been the case that the story was entirely legitimate. But it wasn’t. Even though the Smirnov revelations themselves don’t speak directly to the laptop story, they tell us very clearly that Russian intelligence operations have continued to drive stories at the center of the American political debate right up until today.
To sum up, for me: we know Dump and MAGA and conservative media (Fox et al) are Putin assets (if not active agents) and with them they have played the MSM, TV News, and NY Times/WaPo for treasonous fools going on a decade now, amplifying hostile foreign influences at a scale not seen since the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s, if ever in American history. This is the "Big" part of the story.
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