Hunter, Biden’s son, sues repair store owner for misuse of laptop information
Hunter Bidenthe son of U.S. President Joe Biden, has denounced the owner of a computer repair store, where he left his laptop abandoned, for a “fraudulent” act. alleged crime of violation of his privacy, after the contents of the device were leaked to allies of former President Donald Trump.
According to the indictment, John Paul Mac Isaac turned over information contained on that computer’s hard drive to the “political enemies” of Joe Biden to help during the 2020 election campaign. a Trump, who on several occasions made reference to the alleged scandals of the now head of the White House.
“Mac Isaac intended and knew, or clearly should have known, that the people to whom he provided the data that he believed belonged to Mr. Biden would use it against then-candidate Joe Biden and to help then-President Trump.“, Hunter’s legal team explained.
The contents of the device, which Trump described as. “the laptop from hell.”, has raised a number of questions not only about Hunter Biden’s finances, the subject of several investigations by the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office since 2018, but also about alleged dissolute conduct, with sex scandals and drug use included.of the president’s son, which has been reported by several media outlets.
Among those who had access to this material before it was published are Trump’s former personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and some of his closest adviserssuch as Steve Bannon, as they themselves acknowledged. Biden has never acknowledged owning that laptop. -according to Mac Isaac’s version he left it “abandoned” in 2019 at the store he ran in Wilmington, Delaware-although shis legal team did admit that some of the information that was marketed would have been hiswithout specifying which.
Data copied and shared without authorization
“This is not an admission on Mr. Biden’s part that Mac Isaac possessed any laptop containing stored data belonging to Mr. Biden. Rather, it acknowledges that at some point, Mac Isaac obtained stored data, some of which belonged to Mr. Biden.”his lawyers argue.
In that regard, they have stressed that regardless of how Isaac and others obtained that material, the fact remains that they were improperly accessed, copied and shared without their authorization. Those stories and rumors about the alleged contents of Hunter’s laptop were some of the trump used during the election campaignand even in the television debates, to attack Joe Biden, whom he insistently reminded of everything related to this issue.
This legal tug-of-war between Hunter Biden and Mac Isaac comes as a House committee -under Republican control- investigates the international business dealings of the U.S. president’s son and other relatives.
