This latest conspiracy theory is one of the dumbest yet. If such emails exist, they obviously weren't created to evade detection, as one would - with burner phones, secret servers etc. - if acting nefariously. Because then they *wouldn't be included in the National Archives!*
I mean, the right-wing rant is "this MUST be where Biden hid his corrupt dealings and ran the global crime operation through Hunter!"
And then he included it all in his official papers?
@RationalLeft This lost me at the DCexaminer. For Right wing rags, that one is more threadbare than most
@SentinelOfTruth I believe they got it from the NYPost, which had a screaming headline an article filled with "possible" "could be" "might" etc. And of course the NYP has a long track record on these conspiracy theories.
So far actual media has ignored the whole thing, so I don't know what the NARA FOIA response actually says. But like I said, no one uses "secret emails" to disguise criminal conspiracy... and includes them in their official papers.
@RationalLeft To coin a term they use: It is a nothingburger.
@SentinelOfTruth So are all the conspiracy theories.
That often but not always stops the media.
@RationalLeft Right, but it being a conspiracy theory is almost immaterial. They drag these things out into the open regardless if they hold water or not, because the people that'll buy it, will quote it as fact blindly.
Just a erroneous factoid regurgitated by their base as equal to fact. There's a Issac Asimov quote that fits this perfectly:
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Column in Newsweek (21 January 1980) β "A Cult of Ignorance"
@SentinelOfTruth Well, right-wing media, sure.
Mainstream media is usually less credulous about these BS claims... but you never know when they'll suddenly bit on crap.
They started to get attracted to the whole "IRS whistleblowers" thing, e.g., until their testimony fell flat and the "real" news sites mostly lost interest.
@SentinelOfTruth But RW media will say anything. It's become an article of faith on Fox that the Jan 6 committee "destroyed all its evidence," because TFG picked that up from the fever swamp and therefore they treat it as true. Real media haven't touched that because it's total BS.
@SentinelOfTruth Needless to say, I don't fully trust the mainstream media not to amplify this or some other stupid conspiracy theory, if they feel the need for a new "EMAILZZZZZ!!!" to balance Trump's criminal morass.
But so far, they haven't bitten.