In a letter dated Wednesday, a lawyer representing President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, requested that the Justice Department look into the access and dissemination of personal data from a laptop that a computer repair shop owner claims were left at his Delaware location in 2019.
Hunter Biden’s attorneys also requested in a separate letter that Fox News host Tucker Carlson retract and apologize for what they claim are repeated false and defamatory statements made about him on air, including the suggestion without proof that he had unauthorized access to classified documents discovered at his father’s house.
Federal prosecutors will not launch an investigation or take any other action in response to the request for a criminal investigation, as Hunter Biden is the subject of a Justice Department investigation into tax evasion.
The younger Biden and his legal team have faced years of criticism from Republican officials and conservative media, yet it still indicates a concerted shift in approach and a rare public response. This scrutiny is anticipated to continue now that the GOP has taken control of the House.
Additionally, the most recent episode in the protracted laptop scandal started with a New York Post article published in October 2020 that described some of the emails it claimed to have discovered on the device regarding Hunter Biden’s international business transactions. It moved quickly.
Federal prosecutors will not launch an investigation or take any other action in response to the request for a criminal investigation, as Hunter Biden is the subject of a Justice Department investigation into tax evasion.
The younger Biden and his legal team have faced years of criticism from Republican officials and conservative media, yet it still indicates a concerted shift in approach and a rare public response.
This scrutiny is anticipated to continue now that the GOP has taken control of the House.
Additionally, the most recent episode in the protracted laptop scandal started with a New York Post article published in October 2020 that described some of the emails it claimed to have discovered on the device regarding Hunter Biden’s international business transactions. It moved quickly.
The letter, which renowned Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell signs, requests an investigation into several people, including former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, Trump’s longtime legal counsel Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani’s attorney, and John Paul Mac Isaac, the proprietor of a Wilmington computer repair shop who claims that Hunter Biden left a laptop at his business in April 2019 but never came back to pick it up.
The letter refers to passages from Mac Isaac’s book in which he acknowledged looking over private and delicate information from Biden’s laptop, including a file called “income.pdf.” It also mentions that Mac Isaac sent a copy of the laptop data to Giuliani’s attorney, Robert Costello, who then gave it to Giuliani, a close ally of Trump’s who was promoting unfounded theories about the investigation.
According to the letter, Giuliani gave the details to Bannon and the New York Post writer who broke the story about the laptop.
According to Hunter Biden’s attorney, none of his personal information was ever accessed or disclosed in that way with his consent.
Politicians and the media have used this illegally accessed, copied, distributed, and manipulated data to distort the truth and harm Mr. Biden, the letter claims, adding that “this failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden’s private and personal information.”
When contacted by The Associated Press on Wednesday night, Mac Isaac chose not to comment. When asked to react on behalf of Giuliani and himself, Costello described the letter as “a ridiculous legal document.”
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