Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Deny Admitting ‘So-Called Laptop’ Was His

Hunter Biden attends a Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony honoring 17 recipients, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on July 7, 2022. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Lawyers for Hunter Biden are insisting that they did not admit in recent letters that the laptop computer dropped off at a Delaware computer shop belonged to their client.

In Feb. 1 letters to the Department of Justice, Delaware’s top prosecutor, and the IRS, the lawyers called for investigations into John Paul Mac Isaac, who owned the computer shop, and others, stating in part that Mac Isaac worked “to weaponize Mr. Biden’s personal computer data.”

“Mr. Mac Isaac has caused to be made publicly available restricted information of Mr. Biden ... as well as certain other members of Mr. Biden’s immediate family who likewise qualify as covered persons,” the letters stated.

“These letters do not confirm Mac Isaac’s or others’ versions of a so-called laptop,” Abbe Lowell, one of the lawyers, told Fox News. “They address their conduct of seeking, manipulating and disseminating what they allege to be Mr. Biden’s personal data, wherever they claim to have gotten it.”

Lowell did not respond to a request for comment.

In the letters, representatives for Hunter Biden accused Mac Isaac of changing his story from initially saying he was not sure Hunter Biden dropped a computer off at his store before saying he was certain it was the businessman, and about how he copied the data from the computer.

Brian Della Rocca, a lawyer representing Mac Isaac, has said that the computer became Mac Isaac’s property after Mac Isaac contacted Hunter Biden multiple times to pick up the computer but Hunter Biden did not.

Mac Isaac named Hunter Biden in a defamation lawsuit in Delaware and hired a private investigator to track down the president’s son, Della Rocca said on Fox News this week. That came before the letters calling for an investigation of Mac Isaac.

“The letters assume that Mr. Lowell is smarter than the attorneys in the Delaware Attorney General’s office and in the US Attorney General’s office. The laptop and original external drive are in the possession of the government. Charges for the crimes alleged by Mr. Lowell could have been brought long ago. No charges have been brought because the facts as presented by Mr. Lowell are lies. This is a purely political ploy in which Mr. Lowell should feel ashamed to be participating,” Della Rocca told The Epoch Times via email.

“Hunter knows it is his laptop. He went to the Mac Shop twice. Once with the laptop. The second time with the external hard drive onto which John Paul transferred the data. We don’t need the confirmation by Hunter’s legal team. Nor do the Attorneys General to which letters were sent,” he added.

Hearing

The back-and-forth came ahead of a Feb. 8 hearing set to be held on how Twitter censored the first story on the computer, published in October 2020 by the New York Post.

Twitter suspended the Post’s account over a post promoting the story and claimed the article violated its hacked materials policy, even though internal files showed the company had no evidence the story was based on hacked materials.

“In the runup to the 2020 presidential election, Big Tech and the Swamp colluded to censor reporting about the Biden family’s shady business schemes. The U.S. intelligence community and the FBI frequently communicated with Big Tech and advised Twitter executives to question the validity of any Hunter Biden story—before the New York Post ever reported on it. We also know members of Twitter’s top censorship team debated how they could justify limiting the spread of the story. They landed on a policy that even some among them doubted,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said in a statement.

“Americans deserve answers about this attack on the First Amendment and why Big Tech and the Swamp colluded to censor this information about the Biden family selling access for profit. Accountability is coming,” he added.