Calling the charges "nonsense" is a dishonest tactic taken straight from Joe Biden's spokesman. He calls the charges "nonsense," "malarkey," and a "smear."
All of these words are chosen to not be fact-based -- because you can fact-check a fact.
But you can't fact-check a deliberately vague assessment like "nonsense."
What does it mean? In what way does he claim these emails are false?
He won't say -- intentionally.
Because the emails are real and he knows it. But he wants to claim they're fake, anyway.
Is Jake Tapper saying that Tony Bobulinski is lying? Or a "Russian Asset"?
No, he's not saying that -- because that is a false statement which could be fact-checked.
He and CNN would also be sued for making such wild, unsupportable claims. That's defamation. And CNN is already paying Nick Sandmann for its wild defamatory claims about him.
So instead he follows Biden in issuing a general, vague, nonspecific demurral about the charges, while not committing himself to any factual claim -- any journalistic claim -- about the charges' veracity.
This is deeply dishonest.
And then there are the important things...
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