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Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-02-01): In the letter to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, Hunter Biden’s attorneys accuse computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac of unauthorized access of the laptop and distributing its contents to the New York Post for a story published in the weeks before the 2020 election. Mac Isaac has said in a memoir and media interviews that he received the laptop at his store from Hunter Biden in 2019. [...] But by his own account, Mac Isaac said he went through files on Hunter Biden’s laptop the day after it was dropped off. In his book, Mac Isaac said the day after Hunter Biden dropped off the laptop, he noticed a file titled "income.pdf" in the hard drive, which apparently tracked Biden’s finances. [...] On the website where Ziegler’s group, Marco Polo, posted the alleged contents of the laptop, a disclaimer reads: "Marco Polo testifies that the contents of the Biden Laptop were abandoned property."
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2020-10-14): The New York Post on Wednesday published an article based on emails purportedly obtained from a laptop that Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president Joe Biden, had supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019. Here’s a brief explainer to help readers evaluate its significance. [...] MacIsaac told reporters on Wednesday that a MacBook laptop was dropped off at his shop in Wilmington, Del., in April 2019. MacIsaac, who said he was legally blind, said that he was almost certain that it was Hunter Biden who dropped off the computer. He said that he made several attempts to get in touch with Hunter Biden but the equipment was still in his hands 90 days after it had been left there, and he said that he became curious about what he’d seen. He made a copy of the hard drive and gave it to Giuliani. This past weekend, Giuliani passed a copy to the New York Post. But presumably the laptop would have been of use to the year-long Senate investigation, which found no wrongdoing by Biden.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2022-11-22): In 2023, the GOP will assume a slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Republican legislators have vowed to investigate Hunter Biden, the second son of U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat. One item that is almost sure to come up is the contents of Hunter Biden's infamous laptop. [...] But signs began emerging in the months and years to come that indicated the contents of the laptop were real, and the the device really belonged to Hunter Biden. As we reported in an update to our 2020 story: [...] Lanterman, the expert tapped by CBS News, worked as a member of the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Taskforce before entering the private sector. He told the network he believes the laptop's contents to be authentic, pointing to a voicemail found on the drive left by Hunter's father while the latter struggled with a drug addiction. In the voicemail, Joe Biden told his son he loved him and that he needed to seek help for his addiction. Lanterman told CBS unequivocally that he believe the laptop contents are real and belonged to Hunter Biden.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-02-02): Hunter Biden threatens legal action over laptop allegations Hunter Biden is urging an investigation into those he accuses of trafficking in stolen material from his laptop. [...] He said he reviewed the laptop files shortly after receiving it and discovered information about Mr Biden's personal finances. After waiting 90 days - the amount of time that had to pass before something could be considered abandoned property - Mr Isaac considered it abandoned.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-09-25): - ^ a b c Kessler, Glenn (October 15, 2020). "Hunter Biden's alleged laptop: an explainer". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 15, 2020. Retrieved October 15, 2020. [...] - ^ Kessler, Glenn (June 7, 2021). "Hunter Biden's laptop: The April 16, 2015, dinner". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on June 14, 2021. Retrieved July 22, 2021. [...] - ^ Andrew Rice; Olivia Nuzzi (September 12, 2022). "The Sordid Saga of Hunter Biden's Laptop". New York. Archived from the original on November 19, 2022. Retrieved November 5, 2022.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2022-05-08): What’s the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop? A laptop alleged to belong to Hunter Biden has been scrutinised and argued over since being left at a computer shop in 2019. What is on the laptop and why is it so controversial? Three weeks before the 2020 US presidential election a newspaper published contents of a laptop they said belonged to Hunter Biden, son of Joe Biden, who at that time was campaigning against Donald Trump to win the election. The contents allegedly revealed questionable business dealings that implicated Joe Biden, and lurid personal details of Hunter Biden’s life. Some media outlets refused to run the story and social media platforms blocked the content. Since then other newspapers have tried to verify the laptop data and it still remains controversial today with hints there are more revelations to come. Charmaine Cozier asks what is the truth about Hunter Biden’s laptop?
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-03-17): Hunter Biden sues repairman over release of personal data from laptop Hunter Biden, the US president's embattled son, is suing a Delaware computer repair shop owner over the handling of his private laptop. [...] More material from the laptop has since been released, painting a sordid picture of the younger Biden. They include texts and financial records related to his overseas business dealings in China and Ukraine, as well as provocative photos and videos of him having sex and doing drugs.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-05-22): Special counsel David Weiss plans to introduce Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop as evidence against him at his upcoming trial on felony gun charges. Weiss made his intentions clear in a court filing Wednesday that also blasted Hunter Biden’s lawyers for questioning the laptop’s authenticity, which he called a "conspiracy theory." The laptop is at the center of a yearslong legal and political saga, dating to the 2020 election. Republican officials and right-wing outlets have seized on the laptop’s embarrassing emails and images to attack Biden, the son of President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden’s lawyers have said the files were manipulated, and even sued a computer repair shop owner who publicly released the material.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-10-01): DOVER, Del. (AP) — A computer repairman at the center of a controversy over Hunter Biden’s laptop has lost his defamation case against news outlets, the president’s son and Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. [...] Mac Isaac alleged that he was defamed by media reports and statements from Hunter Biden and his father’s presidential campaign implying that the laptop left at his shop in April 2019 was part of a Russian disinformation campaign and that the computer and data it contained may have been stolen. The laptop surfaced publicly in October 2020 when The New York Post reported on emails it contained regarding Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine, where the Obama administration’s foreign policy efforts had been led by his father. In response, 51 former intelligence officials signed a public statement asserting that the laptop story had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation," an assertion that proved to be false.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-11-29): In July 2023, viral posts on social media began highlighting the fact that a "physical 'report' on [the contents of] Hunter Biden's laptop is being sold for $50." A physical "report" on Hunter Biden's laptop is being sold for $50. This is our life now. As long as Hunter Biden is a factor, these people won't have any substantive policy improvements or intellectual debates for the next 18 months. pic.twitter.com/LGm5mzr8d5 — Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) July 10, 2023 [...] While the contents are free to view on the above-mentioned website, the organization has indeed created a physical copy of the laptop's contents in book form. The book, "Report on the Biden Laptop," could be yours for a $50 donation:
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-03-17): WASHINGTON – Hunter Biden filed a claim Friday in federal court over a laptop filled with his personal information that was widely distributed, alleging that a computer repairman violated his privacy, took part in a conspiracy and helped others invade his privacy. [...] Hunter Biden argued in his claim Friday that under Delaware law he had a year to claim the laptop, rather than 90 days. He also noted Mac Isaac said in media interviews and a book that he began examining files on the laptop "long before 90 days had expired." [...] Abbe Lowell, one of Biden's lawyers, notified U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika he would like to depose Mac Isaac "as soon as feasible." Lowell also plans to depose Giuliani and others who distributed the laptop's contents.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-06-04): Hunter Biden's laptop and its contents have been a point of controversy since October 2020, weeks before the contested election, when Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani turned it over to police and the New York Post. The laptop eventually led to aggressive House investigations into President Joe Biden. But its more salacious contents, including explicit photos and videos of Hunter Biden, have continuously stoked the fire of controversy. It all started with John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of The Mac Shop in Wilmington, Delaware, who said a man identifying himself as Hunter Biden brought in three liquid-damaged laptops in April 2019. One laptop was left behind, and Mac Isaac ended up sharing it with Rudy Giuliani's lawyer because he believed it would make him safer.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-02-13): The story of Hunter Biden’s laptop is a long saga. [...] Recently, Hunter Biden has adopted a new, aggressive legal strategy in response to the coverage of the laptop and its contents. He recently hired defense lawyer Abbe Lowell, who has sent letters asking prosecutors to investigate those involved in copying and sharing the contents of the laptop. On Feb. 1, acting on Hunter Biden’s behalf, Lowell asked the attorney general of Delaware, Kathy Jennings, to investigate Mac Isaac for "unlawfully" accessing Hunter Biden’s personal data and distributing that data to "the political enemies" of Joe Biden. Lowell sent a similar request to Matthew Olsen, the assistant attorney general for national security at the Department of Justice.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2022-03-30): The contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop computer have sparked debate and controversy since the New York Post and other news organizations in the closing month of the 2020 presidential campaign reported stories based on data purportedly taken from it. [...] When his work was completed, Della Rocca said, Mac Isaac repeatedly attempted to contact Hunter Biden, who had signed a repair authorization, to advise him the laptop was ready to be picked up, but Hunter never responded. Della Rocca added that Mac Isaac finally came to regard the MacBook as abandoned property. [...] In an email with the subject line "Why is it so difficult to be a whistleblower when you are on the right?" written on Aug. 26, 2020, Mac Isaac told Costello that he had copies of the hard drive from Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-06-13): The Mainstream Media Is Still in Denial About Hunter Biden's Laptop [...] The contents of the laptop, readers may recall, fell into the hands of government investigators, Republican operatives, and eventually, the media. On October 14, 2020—just weeks before the presidential election—the New York Post published a story about the laptop's contents, arguing that it demonstrated corruption and influence peddling involving the Biden family. [...] It is notable, then, that years later, the accuracy of the information on the laptop is no longer questioned; claims of Russian malfeasance are utterly unfounded. One can disagree with the New York Post's conclusions about the relevance of the information, but it's abundantly clear that it was Hunter Biden's laptop and it was discarded at a repair shop.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-09-26): Hunter Biden files a lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, accusing the former Trump attorney of computer fraud over his role in obtaining and sharing the alleged contents of the infamous laptop. In a statement responding to the suit, Giuliani adviser Ted Goodman says, "I'm not surprised he's now falsely claiming his laptop hard drive was manipulated by Mayor Giuliani, considering the sordid material and potential evidence of crimes on that thing." [...] Prosecutors say in a court filing that they plan to use Hunter Biden's infamous laptop as evidence in his upcoming felony gun trial to help them prove that he unlawfully obtained a firearm in 2018. [...] Prosecutors enter Hunter Biden's infamous laptop as evidence on Day 2 of the trial, with an FBI special agent testifying that investigators were able confirm the laptop was his by matching its serial number to his iCloud account.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2022-11-10): EXCLUSIVE: The former Delaware computer repair shop owner who blew the whistle on the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop said he is still afraid to go outside his home due to harassment. [...] Mac Isaac, the owner of what was "The Mac Shop" in Wilmington, Deleware, which serviced Hunter Biden's laptop in April 2019 before turning it over to the FBI, detailed the saga in his forthcoming book, "American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth," which releases Nov. 22. [...] The laptop contained evidence of what Mac Isaac described as government corruption at the highest level; that the office of the vice president, occupied then by Joe Biden, had been "selling influence and support to foreign nationals in exchange for money."
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-12-07): Following subpoenas to obtain Biden family associates’ bank records, Chairman Comer issued subpoenas for Hunter and James Biden’s personal and business bank records. The House Oversight Committee has identified over 20 shell companies and uncovered how the Bidens and their associates raked in over $24 million dollars between 2015 and 2019 by selling Joe Biden as "the brand." Financial records obtained show Hunter Biden’s business account, Owasco PC, received payments from Chinese-state linked companies and other foreign nationals and companies. Payments to Joe Biden from Hunter’s Owasco PC corporate account are part of a pattern revealing Joe Biden knew about, participated in, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes. As the Bidens received millions from foreign nationals and companies in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan, Joe Biden dined with his family’s foreign associates, spoke to them by speakerphone, had coffee, attended meetings, and ultimately received payments that were funded by his family’s business dealings. [...] This wasn’t a payment from Hunter Biden’s personal account but an account for his corporation that received payments from China and other shady corners of the world.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2024-06-03): Hunter Biden’s addiction to crack cocaine was so bad, he recalled, that he alienated his children and his famous father despite their repeated attempts to help. [...] It was so bad that he left his laptop at a Delaware repair shop and never came back for it until, in the heat of the 2020 presidential campaign, a worker passed the private contents of its hard drive, including explicit images and videos, to former President Donald Trump’s campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Those would later be displayed in the House of Representatives by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. [...] After being hunted by Trump and his followers, his privacy destroyed by the leaking of the laptop’s contents, Biden is again a public figure. Where Trump once roared "Where’s Hunter?" at 2020 reelection rallies, the president’s son is often seen at his father’s side and at White House events.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2022-05-19): From 2013 through 2018 Hunter Biden and his company brought in about $11 million via his roles as an attorney and a board member with a Ukrainian firm accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now accused of fraud, according to an NBC News analysis of a copy of Biden’s hard drive and iCloud account and documents released by Republicans on two Senate committees. [...] "No government ethics rules apply to him," said Walter Shaub, a former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics who is now an ethics expert with the Project on Government Oversight. Shaub added, however, that "it’s imperative that no one at DOJ and no one at the White House interfere with the criminal investigation in Delaware." Shaub had previously raised questions about Hunter Biden’s new line of work, selling his own paintings, which created the potential to purchase a painting to buy perceived influence, and also because the White House became involved in the transactions, arranging that none of the buyers’ names be known to Biden, the White House or the public. [...] NBC News obtained a copy of Biden’s laptop hard drive from a representative of Rudy Giuliani and examined Biden’s business dealings from 2013 to 2018 based on the information available on the hard drive and the scope of the documents released by the Senate.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2023-05-03): The shop owner couldn’t positively identify the customer as Hunter Biden, but said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, named after Hunter’s late brother and former Delaware attorney general. [...] Hunter Biden has never confirmed whether the laptop actually belonged to him. (You’ll note that the Post story above never says definitively it is Biden’s laptop.) [...] A law enforcement source has told CNN that the assumption is that it is Hunter Biden’s laptop. But the FBI is still working through the content and the integrity of what is on it, because it was not in Hunter Biden’s sole possession the whole time before it was handed over to the FBI.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2022-09-12): The first thing you need to understand about the Hunter Biden laptop, though, is that it’s not a laptop. The FBI reportedly took possession of the original — at least if you accept the version of events promoted by those who have distributed the data, which Hunter Biden and his lawyers don’t — and all we have now are copies of copies. When it first publicly surfaced, 20 days before the 2020 election, the authenticity of the material was doubted to the degree that Twitter and Facebook effectively banned the story from legitimate political discourse. Since then, mainstream news organizations, including the New York Times and the Washington Post, have come to verify that at least some of the information contained in the cache is authentic. [...] For almost a year, I have been trying to get the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop to the proper authorities. I first reached out to the FBI and they came and collected it but I have reason to believe they have destroyed it or buried it in a filing cabinet … Luckily for my protection I made several copies and I have been trying quietly to bring it to people’s attention.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2020-10-14): The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim that he’s "never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings" — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer. [...] Catch up on Twitter’s censorship of The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story - Happening now: Email found on Hunter’s laptop reveals Joe Biden named in 2017 message seeking China natural gas deal - Our original report: Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad - Editorial: Why has the public turned against "experts"? Twitter’s secret shadow bans show why - Dorsey bows out: Musk warns Dorsey evidence of Twitter censorship "may have been deleted" [...] The shop owner couldn’t positively identify the customer as Hunter Biden, but said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, named after Hunter’s late brother and former Delaware attorney general.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2022-11-10): John Paul Mac Isaac owned the computer repair shop where Hunter Biden is said to have brought a water-damaged laptop. When Biden failed to pick up the computer after 90 days, the laptop- and its photos and videos- became Mac Isaac's property. The former computer repair shop owner who said he discovered shocking photos and concerning documents on a laptop Hunter Biden left there has now written a book about his experiences. [...] Hunter Biden is said to have brought the water-damaged laptop to the shop in April 2019 with the hope of restoring its information. When Biden failed to pick-up the computer after 90 days, the laptop became Mac Isaac's property, and with it, all those photos and videos.
Claim: A book of Hunter Biden’s laptop contents sold (Viral post, 2023-07-10)
Evidence (2022-08-26): Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship [...] The New York Post alleged leaked emails from Hunter Biden's laptop showed the then vice-president was helping his son's business dealings in Ukraine. [...] It claimed that a laptop, abandoned in a repair shop by Hunter Biden, contained emails which included details of Hunter introducing a Ukrainian energy tycoon to his father and arranging a meeting. There is no record on Mr Biden's schedule that such a meeting ever took place.