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Hunter Biden laptop controversy mention[edit]

The fact that Clapper signed a letter about concerns into Hunter Biden's laptop is relatively insignificant to the rest of his career, and doesn't merit its own paragraph in the lead. The lead commentary is more substantial than the mention of it in the body of the article. Moving the lead's wording to the body. Balon Greyjoy (talk) 23:53, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Clapper has not substantiated his trump Russia allegations[edit]

This source should suffice for the edit I included that was removed. @Swatjester please opine.

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/12/15632894/trump-clapper-russia-hearing-no-evidence

Quote from Clapper: "So I don't know if there was collusion or not. I don't know if there is evidence of collusion or not, nor should I have in this particular context."

Helpingtoclarify (talk) 06:32, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not really, no. That quote could maybe be used with a more neutral sentence (with some major caveats), but does not really support the as-previously-written claim that Despite these repeated claims by Clapper, he has not substantiated the connection between Trump and Putin. It has problems for a number of reasons. First, the article specifically mentions that the above quote is in response to the specific context of "a counterintelligence investigation when the possibility was there that this could devolve into some sort of a criminal investigation." As well, your reference is a 2017 article being used to source a present-tense claim in 2024. Being limited in time and scope, it's not really capable of supporting the much broader claim you're making that Clapper's not substantiated any connection between Trump and Putin as of (insert present-day here). And given that the lede paragraph of the Vox article is "President Donald Trump has tried to tamp down the growing controversy over his campaign’s ties to Russia by deliberately misrepresenting comments from James Clapper, formerly the nation’s top spy." it's not really an appropriate source for the given claim. Even if you were just to include the quote from Clapper, it would certainly be undue weight without the broader context of the full relevant portion of the transcript (as quoted in the Vox article) and the contextual conclusions of the article that Trump had misrepresented Clapper's claims. ⇒SWATJester ^{Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat!} 07:09, 28 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]