Subject: Re: A Republic, If You Can Keep It...
Gator1984: By all means please update where I am wrong.

1) Hunter laptop. Was it Russian disinformation or real? (Keep in mind that this is potentially Joe Biden's son's laptop, so he should really know from day 1). I would also add that we have a document from 51 experts confirming that the laptop is Russian disinformation (not just unknown origin, but pointing it in the direction of our so called nemesis like a James Bond movie? Apparently they jumped the gun. Or had no intention of wanting to know the truth. Is this not 100% resolved as of today? What do you know, it is Hunter's laptop! Of course the contents are still being hidden by the current administration? What a shocker, but nobody still argues that it was Russian disinformation anymore. Do you?

You're wrong.

From the letter:

It is for all these reasons that we write to say that the arrival on the US political scene of emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter, much of it related to his time serving on the Board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.

Information operations, which are also known as influence operations, include the collection of tactical information about an adversary as well as the dissemination of propaganda in pursuit of a competitive advantage over an opponent.

They did not suggest that it was a disinformation campaign.

Also, please note that you are wrong in suggesting they claimed to know with certainty that it was a Russian campaign.

Again, from the letter (which you did not seem to actually read):

We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement -- just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.

In short, you're completely wrong.

The letter: https://www.politico.com/f/?id...


Gator 1984: Don't we have laws that only congress can approve funding? Seems like Biden is the unlawful player.

No, it seems like you're uninformed here, as well.

The Biden administration is using programs within the Department of Education's existing authority like Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), which has already been lawfully in place in statute and regulation for nearly 15 years, as a way to forgive some borrowers' loans.

Other existing loan forgiveness programs include total and permanent disability discharge; borrower defense to repayment discharges for defrauded borrowers; closed school discharge for borrowers whose school closed abruptly; and teacher loan forgiveness.

Still others received relief via an income-driven repayment plan which applied to people who have worked for 20 or more years but never received the debt forgiveness they were entitled to.

I'll let someone else address your other two points.