The Patriot Post® · Imagine

Imagine Donald Trump Jr. left his MacBook at a repair shop and never claimed it.

Imagine the owner of the repair shop looked at the contents of the laptop and was alarmed enough by what he saw — including, allegedly, child pornography and videos of Don Jr. smoking crack while engaging in sex acts — that he made a CYA copy of the hard drive before turning the laptop over to the FBI.

Imagine the FBI sat on that laptop for some seven months until the nation’s fourth-largest newspaper broke a story about it. Imagine the FBI then confirmed that the laptop is being held as part of a money-laundering investigation.

Imagine the hard drive purportedly includes an email to Don Jr. from a senior executive of a corrupt Ukrainian energy company that reads, “Dear Don, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”

Imagine a former business partner of Don Jr. — a former U.S. Navy officer and a donor to only Republican political candidates — vouching for the authenticity of the emails and explaining their meaning because he himself was included on the emails. Imagine, further, that he’s agreed to turn over his cell phones and their many incriminating text messages to the FBI.

Imagine neither Don Jr. nor his dad denying the authenticity of the laptop or the emails.

Imagine the nation’s directors of National Intelligence and the FBI refuting the claims of Trump surrogates and conservative media that the story is “Russian disinformation.”

Imagine President Trump dismissing the allegations as “a Russian plan” and “a last ditch effort to smear me and my family.”

Imagine the New York Post, which broke the story a week ago and tried to share it via Twitter, being locked out of its Twitter account ever since it broke the story.

Now imagine our nation’s leading media organs — including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, and PBS — all refusing to cover the story less than two weeks before President Trump stands for reelection.

Now imagine the outcry from the Left.

Just imagine.