Reputations on the line

It’s only toward the end of the article “Trump calls to abolish Constitution because of ‘election fraud’” (December 5) that it is revealed what Trump’s actual concern was, namely the release of “The Twitter Files.” The article says that the new Twitter owner Elon Musk released the files, but actually he deputized independent journalist Matt Taibbi to release the extensive documents that can readily be found on the Internet.

The article goes on to say that it is unclear whether the revelations are authentic, but it is beyond me why Musk and Taibbi would put their reputations on the line in such an elaborate fabrication. One can also be sure that the paper that leaked the Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before the 2020 presidential election, The New York Post, had its lawyers all over the article before authorizing its release.

The article also comments that many of the facts surrounding the laptop “have been continuously debated.” This is patently untrue: neither then-candidate Joe Biden nor his son Hunter have ever said that the story is untrue. The latest voluminous release and earlier revelations show that the FBI and the famous 51 former intelligence officials were heavily involved in the incorrect characterization of the laptop as Russian disinformation and hacked information, all of these people being paid for by American taxpayers.

Musk concludes that “Twitter was acting like an arm of the Democratic National Committee,” adding that it was absurd.

DAVID SMITH

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