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   by _a40s 6y ago

   But they are refuting it, just more weakly. In any case, not to refute it would be gross political malpractice and I'm sure Biden has better advisors than that.
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   by _a40s 6y ago

   It's not. It's that lurid tabloids sometimes break important stories. This comment expresses it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24784836 . (I'm not saying this one is an important story.)
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   by _a40s 6y ago

   Political communications like that must be parsed extremely precisely if you don't want to be tricked. The phrase "as alleged" is a huge loophole. The thread that the sibling comment linked to goes into this: https:/&#x
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   by _a40s 6y ago

   Some people expressed horror over previous NY Post links, and I didn't have a different one handy.
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   by _a40s 6y ago

   Of course you're right in a logical or philosophical sense, but in a political sense it certainly does. If the emails were fake, it would be politically insane not to say so. The Biden campaign can easily find this out from Hunter, so
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   by _a40s 6y ago

   It seems that the Biden campaign isn't denying that the emails are authentic. That would be strong evidence that they are, assuming this hasn't changed in the last 24 hours: https://twitter.com/lhfang/status&#
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   by _a40s 6y ago

   rayiner answered you decisively and now you're just repeating part of his point.