because that’s not what happened. The FBI had the laptop (which was touted as a conspiracy theory) in December of 2019. The data on the laptop should have influenced the election in the minds of those competing against the democrats just as Stormy Daniels, tax returns, Trumps son hunting big game, meetings w/foreign nationals, or my favorite “Russia” - was used by democrats to attempt to influence the election
“Mac Isaac has said he acquired the laptop in April 2019 when Hunter Biden dropped the laptop off in his shop for repairs.
Biden signed a contract with Mac Isaac, which included a policy stating that if the laptop was not picked up within 90 days, it would become Mac Isaac's property, according to the repair shop owner's book. Mac Isaac writes that Biden never came back for the laptop.”
The dishonesty shown here, if Biden did in fact sign a contract, is hilarious.
"There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me," Hunter Biden said in a 2021 CBS interview while promoting his memoir. "It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the -- that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me."
Both of those excerpts are pulled from the CNN article linked.
All the while mainstream media was trying to sway the American public toward democratics by stating none of it was real, nothing to see here.
It was an obvious psy ops and the FBI said so. I understand that MAGA can't accept this, because, well, just look at what else they can't accept:
Trump was the worst president since Herbert Hoover
Accepted aid and support from Putin to help him win the election
Obstructed the investigation into Putin's collusion with the Trump campaign to help him win the election.
Over a million dead at Trump's hand due to his mishandling of the Covid epidemic
Trade wars caused manufacturing to go into recession BEFORE the epidemic (can't blame it on China)
Normalized white supremacy in the US.
Used Portland Oregon as a training ground for his paramilitary.
Lost the election in 2020
Attempted election fraud but got caught when the Georgia Governor had a phone from Trump call recorded.
Lost control of Congress in 2018
Conspired to disenfranchise 80 million voters after he lost the election in 2020
Told his paramilitary to Stand By during the debates
Told his paramilitary to attack Congress on Jan 6, 2021
Stole top secret documents from the government when he left the White House
Lied to NARA when they asked for the documents back (what documents?) and obstructed the retrieval of the documents he stole from the government.
So, it's completely understandable why MAGA disbelieve the FBI when they say that laptop is an obvious Russian psy ops plant. If they can choke down all of the above, they can certainly choke down that last little bit.
It's also completely understandable why the mainstream public aren't listening to people who claim Hunter Biden's laptop is causing the sky to fall. We don't live in a fake news universe and don't accept what MAGA say without checking the facts gathered by facts based news sites. Because invariably the story turns to be false or find there is no evidence to give the story credence.
The image projected by MAGA when they take the witness stand: