Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Ron Johnson takes Hunter Biden-laptop-whataboutism to new heights - The Washington Post

Clinton's 2016 loss was narrow enough that lots of things might be identified as proximate causes, the WikiLeaks releases among them. In other words, one can credibly argue that the Russian interference effort worked — something you can't credibly argue about the laptop letter and Trump's 7-million-ballot popular-vote loss four years later. 

The reason Johnson draws this line, though, is to blur that distinction. Trump wants the world to believe that he won both elections on the merits, so he has worked hard to downplay Russia's 2016 efforts and to overplay the importance of the reaction to the laptop stories. Since Trump is making these arguments, the base expects to hear them from other Republicans, and so complicated tiers of rhetoric are created to accommodate that demand…


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