House of Representatives Speaker, Kevin McCarthy, said on Thursday, February 2, that he promises to get to the heart of the Hunter Biden laptop-related issues.
In a post on Twitter, before the mid-term elections, McCarthy wrote, “The FBI colluded with Big Tech to silence news stories before the 2020 election in an effort to control your access to information,” adding, “when Republicans are back in charge, we will hold all of them accountable.”
McCarthy was referring to a statement made by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg that he may have suppressed and/or censored an explosive story about President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, when Joe Biden was running for president.
McCarthy is now back in charge and is determined to explore what really happened with Hunter Biden’s computer.
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden has requested probes into a computer repairman and other individuals who spread the contents of his computer. Hunter and his lawyers allege that the repairman and individuals associated with former president Donald Trump trafficked in stolen information from his laptop.
Biden’s lawyers’ letter asks for investigations into Garrett Ziegler, a former Trump administration aide; John Paul Mac Isaac, a computer repairman who had possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop; Robert Costello, Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer; Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s former lawyer; and Steve Bannon, Trump’s former White House advisor.
Hunter Biden has kept his head down during most of the controversy, but has had enough. For the first time, President Joe Biden’s son and his lawyers are acknowledging publicly that his personal data was on the laptop left at a computer repair shop in Delaware. Biden’s legal team says that their request for criminal probes is not a confirmation of the narrative that has been circulated by right-wing media and individuals.
Hunter Biden’s lawyers also sent a cease-and-desist letter to Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday, and called for a retraction of a story on Fox News that Biden’s lawyers say is untrue.
Computer technician John Paul Mac Isaac claims that in April 2019, Hunter Biden left his laptop at a shop in Delaware for repairs and never came back to pick it up. He claims that in order to comply with his store’s customer care policy, he had to wait a minimum of 90 days before declaring the laptop abandoned. In court documents, Isaac claimed that while giving the computer to the FBI, he also gave Robert Costello, Rudy Giuliani’s personal lawyer, a copy of the computer’s data.
Before the 2020 presidential race, Republican operatives distributed alleged copies of the laptop data in order to discredit candidate Joseph Biden, and the New York Post published several stories based on the computer data.
On Thursday, Abbe Lowell, the attorney for Hunter Biden, said that when Hunter requested investigation of computer technician Isaac and others, and Rudy Giuliani, who sent laptop files to The New York Post in October 2020, he wasn’t verifying the legitimacy of the narrative being pushed by Republicans about the laptop.
Rudy Giuliani has acknowledged having given a copy of Hunter Biden’s hard drive to the New York Post before the 2020 presidential election.
In the letters on February 1 to the Delaware Attorney General and others, Lowell did not contest that Hunter Biden had left the laptop at Isaac’s former Delaware store. However, he did say that it was possible that certain information may have been altered and noted that Isaac admitted to ordering the shipment of at least two of Biden’s external hard drives.
According to Lowell, Isaac and others may have broken statutes in Delaware prohibiting theft, the possession of stolen goods, the abuse of computer system information, illegal access to a computer system, the destruction of computer equipment, and the theft of computer services.
