The reviews for Ukrainium One 2: Electric Boogaloo are in. Apparently it’s reductive, poorly plotted, and the graphics suck. No stars!
Or as Rudy Giuliani put it to The Daily Beast, “My guess is that George Soros is behind this counter-offensive… because he wants to create a socialist country. He’d like to see us collapse and see us taken over by the international… whatever.”
What. Ever.
Even in the hands of a competent ratfucker, this warmed over rehash of the Uranium One/WikiLeaks hack-and-dump op/hooker pee tape/But Her Emails would probably have fallen flat this year — we all lived through this shit in 2016, and we’ve been living through the aftermath for four years. But Rudy Giuliani is no one’s idea of competent. Or even, you know, sane.
The man is actually out there saying it’s totally fine if he’s a cutout for a Russian disinformation campaign. “The chance that Derkach is a Russian spy is no better than 50/50,” he told the Beast of his pal Andrii Derkach, whom the Treasury just sanctioned for being a literal Russian agent trying to interfere in our election.
This weekend Giuliani told the New York Times that he’d chosen the New York Post to launder this obvious Russian bullshit about Hunter Biden because “either nobody else would take it, or if they took it, they would spend all the time they could to try to contradict it before they put it out.” See, he needed a semi-respectable outlet (read: not OANN) to publish it, but not one that would do any of that annoying journalism stuff like fact-checking.
Even so, the reporter who actually wrote the story, Bruce Golding, wouldn’t put his name on it because of “concerns over the article’s credibility.” Which would be natural for any article where the sources were Steve Bannon, currently under indictment for defrauding donors to a charity, and Rudy freakin’ Giuliani. Much less an article involving a presidential candidate and an unauthenticated hard drive supposedly obtained from some rando computer store in Delaware after Hunter Biden got wasted and flew cross-country to abandon a laptop full of incriminating emails and videos in his father’s home state.