There was a hack of the Burisma Servet a few weeks before the laptop appeared. Nothing was damaged or missing on the servers.
In 2017 the GRU used a similar hack on a French company to get real documents from which they made fake documents they used to implicate Macron in a corruption scandal right before the election. The French caught it and the plan failed. This is covered in the NYT link
President Trump’s allies have promoted claims of corruption aimed at the former vice president’s son in an effort to damage the Biden campaign.
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This is the analysis.
This is the WAPO interview with the shop owner, who says files were added after it was dropped off.
This is the NYT piece wherein the talk about emails which had been verified as genuine, and this is what the NYPost used to make the claim that the laptop is “real”. It just confirms that the emails they are discussing from the laptop or real but it doesn’t say that everything on the laptop is real
I’ve noticed that the right wing media always wraps their lives around a chunk of truth, however small, and then distorts it into a lie by assuming facts not in evidence.
The Justice Department inquiry into the business dealings of the president’s son has remained active, with a grand jury seeking information about payments from around the world.
www.nytimes.com