Corruption? I wouldn’t be very much surprised, simply because rich people in positions of power are like that.

The part about the informant reminded me of another informant that swore up and down that Saddam Hussein had huge stockpiles of “weapons of mass destruction” -remember that? There weren’t any.

By a trick of memory, I am also reminded of the previous Gulf war, and the harrowing testimony before Congress of a 15 year old girl about witnessing Iraqi soldiers emptying and taking incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital and leaving Kuwaiti babies to die on the cold hard floor. This also turned out to be a completely fictional story, told by (it was later revealed) the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador, that had been coached by a public relations firm called Hill & Knowlton, that was at the time contracted by the Kuwaiti government.

So I guess you can’t always trust informants or evidence produced by republican activity.

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        Im sorry I must have missed some big news because I don’t recall Biden inciting an insurrection.

        Can you bring me up to speed on this with some reputable sources?

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            If you haven’t noticed the trend I will spell it out for you.

            The “evidence” on the laptop never existed.

            Just like the WMDs and the Iraqi’s stealing incubators in Kuwait it is a lie.

            One you ate up with no evidence because it lets you believe “the other team” are every bit as corrupt as your own “team” clearly is.

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              1. Jan 6 wasnt an insurrection, it was a protest.

              2. Trump did not incite jan 6.

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                Protests don’t break into buildings hosting elections. Trump is their leader, who intentionally riled them up with lies and sent them in.

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                  Have you seen the footage? They basically just walked around for a few hours. And it wasn’t broken into, they were literally waved in.

                  Trump literally told them to go home.