Attorneys for Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, have reportedly asked for allies of former President Donald Trump to be investigated for allegedly trafficking stolen information — implicitly admitting that the controversial laptop from which the information supposedly came did belong to him.
NBC News reportedly obtained a letter that was sent Wednesday to the Department of Justice’s National Security Division asking for an investigation into: “individuals for whom there is considerable reason to believe violated various federal laws in accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating information,” referring to personal computer files of Mr. Biden as stated in the letter.
This public offensive comes after well-documented deliberations amongst Hunter Biden’s team, associated attorneys, and competing groups at the DNC regarding how he should respond to the laptop saga. His team prepared extensive opposition research on several of the individuals involved in bringing the laptop to light.
The Wednesday letter was signed by Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell. Individuals it refers to include Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his strategist Steve Bannon, Giuliani’s lawyer Robert Costello, and John Paul Mac Isaac — the owner of a computer shop in Wilmington, Delaware, who previously said Hunter Biden dropped his laptop off at the store for repairs in April 2019 but never returned to pick it up.
The letter noted that Mac Isaac admitted in his book American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth to reviewing private data on the laptop and sending a copy of that data to Costello, who then supposedly shared it with Giuliani.
Giuliani then apparently shared the information with both Bannon and the New York Post, which published the first story pertaining to the laptop’s contents.
The letter states: “This failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. [Hunter] Biden’s private and personal information.” Further, “Politicians and the news media have used this unlawfully accessed, copied, distributed, and manipulated data to distort the truth and cause harm to Mr. Biden,” as disclosed in the letter.
Costello referred to the letter as “a frivolous legal document” and said it “reeks of desperation because they know judgment day is coming for the Bidens.”
Mac Isaac reportedly declined to comment.
In a similar letter, Hunter Biden’s lawyers asked the Delaware attorney general’s office for an investigation into the same individuals, who they allege violated “various Delaware laws” in accessing and disseminating information belonging to Hunter Biden.
In a separate letter, the attorneys asked Fox News host Tucker Carlson to retract and apologize for statements they allege are false and defamatory. They claim Carlson implied without evidence that Hunter Biden had unauthorized access to classified documents found at his father’s home in Wilmington, Delaware.
Since the publication of the letters, many have opined that Hunter Biden’s lawyers have now effectively conceded the infamous laptop — which has been a subject of controversy since 2020 — did indeed belong to the president’s son.
“So, Hunter Biden is now admitting, after three years, that everything on the laptop is real? Bold strategy,” tweeted Outkick founder Clay Travis. “Especially after Democrats & their media allies spent years arguing Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation.”
However, Lowell claimed on Wednesday that these letters “do not confirm Mac Isaac’s or others’ versions of a so-called laptop.”
The letters “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,” according to Lowell.
Hunter Biden has previously claimed that he does not know if the laptop is his.
“For real, I don’t know,” he told CBS in 2021. “I don’t have any idea — I have no idea whether or not.”
“There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the — that it was Russian intelligence,” he said. “It could be that it was stolen from me.”
Since 2020, Hunter Biden has been the subject of his own federal investigation concerning accusations of tax evasion, according to reporting from NBC News.