<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent">On Sun, Nov 1, 2026 at 8:06 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>Wait a minute! Trump was the president in 2019 and 2020 and the FBI is part of the executive branch <span class="gmail_default">and</span> was run by <u>Trump appointee</u> Christopher Wray<span class="gmail_default">, so</span> if th<span class="gmail_default">e FBI bungled</span> Hunter Biden's laptop investigation<span class="gmail_default"> </span>(and I'm <span class="gmail_default">NOT</span> saying they did) then that's on Trump NOT the Democrats.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></b></font><b style="background-color:transparent;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large">And besides<span class="gmail_default">,</span> I don't see how it would <span class="gmail_default">have </span>made a difference in the election. The Trump acolytes don't give a damn that their guru received a 400 million dollar bribe from the Emir of Qatar, or that <span class="gmail_default">as </span>President he made $1.6 billion by selling a crypto coin called "$TRUMP" while the suckers who bought it lost billions, or that a Russian oligarch and Putin pal paid for his son's wedding, or that <span class="gmail_default">Trump and </span>his sons made multi <u>BILLION</u> dollar deals with various oil rich mideast nations<span class="gmail_default">.</span> Nothing in Hunter Biden's laptop even hinted at such a massive magnitude of corruption, most of it was embarrassing but not illegal. So why would that <span class="gmail_default">have </span>change<span class="gmail_default">d</span> the election outcome?  </b></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4">><i><font face="georgia, serif"> I will certainly give you that.  The current guy had many adversaries working against him in the executive branch.</font></i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>So according to you even though <span class="gmail_default" style="">Trump</span> had the advantage of having been<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span> president for <span class="gmail_default" style="">4 </span>years<span class="gmail_default" style="">, the Democrats <u>still </u>managed to outsmart him. </span> </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"> </font><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span><font face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>He was warned that the intelligence community can come at you six ways to Sunday.  Well, they did.</i></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>It is the long-standing policy of the FBI not to comment on an ongoing investigation as this was, especially if it's less than 90 days before an election. But just 11 days before the 2016 election FBI Director James Comey (NOT a Trump appointee) ignored this policy and announced that the FBI was reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server; and after the <span class="gmail_default" style=""><u>MASSIVE</u></span> security violations we've routinely<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>seen in Donald's administration<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> Hillary's email server is very small potatoes.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>   </b></font> <b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></b><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4060484790433156046"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-4060484790433156046WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-4060484790433156046gmaildefault"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Polls taken after the laptop became public show that keeping that laptop secret tipped the election the other way. </i></span></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>The most damaging thing we learned from that<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span> laptop was that<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Hunter Biden got a job from a Ukrainian company that paid $50,000 a month, pretty trivial stuff compared to the multi BILLION dollar corruption that Trump's sons engaged in as did Trump himself. And I am certain we will see even more corruption during the next two years. </span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style=""><br></span></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>