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That is the appearance being given, yes.

In the same way The New York post is engaging in political interference, disfavoring Democrats.

I think people can see that both Twitter and Face book have a left-wing bias.

I think people can see that the New York Post has a right-wing bias.

Twitter and Facebook claim that they *aren't* biased.
That is a false claim.
Some people choose not to accept the truth.

I don't use either platform. Anyone who draws 'truth' from social media (except maybe in the case of some videos) should probably reexamine the validity of their sources.

In the same way The New York post is engaging in political interference, disfavoring Democrats.

1. Has any proof been presented that the laptop even belonged to Hunter Biden?

MacBooks have unique serial numbers which can be used to trace them back to the original point of sale.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201608

This is something that an owner of a Mac repair shop would be intimately familiar with. And after 911, the US authorities have seriously upped their game when it comes to keeping track of laptops, cellphones etc.

All I've seen is that the repair shop owner claimed that it had a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on it. But I - and anyone else - can have an online print shop makes these in a few days simply by sending them the following:



2. The repair shop owner said he repeatedly tried to contact the client. How and when did he do this?

Did he send letters by mail? If so, when and to what address?
Did he send e-mails? If so, when and to what e-mail address?
Did he call by telephone? If so, when and to what phone number?
Did he go to the Beau Biden Foundation (possible, as it is in the same city)? If so, when and to what location?

Such activities would either leave a (1) paper/digital trail or (2) a person who could corroborate his story.

I was wondering about this too.

All he would have to do is call one of numerous Biden campaign people.

Why did he go to the FBI?

He would of had to think there was a crime?

What crime did he think was committed?

He should have a signed authorization contract with Biden?

Why can't the shop owner produce a receipt?

No company or person drops off their laptop without a receipt.

It doesn't make sense to me now.

The Chain of Events

The Post reported that the saga started in April 2019, when a man identifying himself as Hunter Biden dropped the laptop off at a computer repair shop in the Biden family’s home state of Delaware. The laptop had been damaged by water.

Although the Post didn’t identify the shop owner, journalists were able to track the shop down because the Post failed to remove metadata from images embedded in the story. The shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, spoke to several reporters in a nearly hour-long conversation recorded by The Daily Beast.

In the discussion, Isaac alleged that a man identifying himself as Hunter Biden had dropped the laptop in question off with liquid damage. He also said he didn’t actually see the vice president’s son dropping the laptop off. The Post story contained an invoice naming Hunter Biden.

Isaac declined to answer many questions, but he did state that the contents of the laptop troubled him. Isaac referenced the debunked Seth Rich conspiracy theory, which holds that Rich, a DNC staffer, was murdered by Democratic political operates because after he hacked the DNC’s server. Isaac claimed he was fearful for his own safety.

U.S. Intelligence officials have concluded that it was Russian government agents, not Rich, who hacked the DNC. The Russian government had actively promoted the Seth Rich conspiracy theory, however, as had right-wing media and social media personalities.

Isaac said he was troubled by the contents of the laptop, and was therefore in contact with the FBI — although he gave contradictory statements as to who initiated the contact. According to the subpoena published by the Post, the FBI took the laptop from Isaac in December 2019.

We left a voice message with Isaac’s computer shop but didn’t get a response in time for publication. We also reached out to the FBI with questions about the claims in the story and Isaac’s statement, but the FBI replied that according to policy, it wouldn’t confirm or deny an investigation.

The Post reported that before Isaac gave the laptop and hard drive to the FBI, he “made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello.”

When reached by phone, Costello told Snopes that he was given the contents of the hard drive in September 2020. The contents, he said, contain thousands of emails, text messages, pictures and videos.

Costello told Snopes that the reason his client, Giuliani, ultimately gave the hard drive copy to the Post was because that’s what its source (although Costello didn’t name him, we presume based on Isaac’s own statements that he was the source) wanted done.

“We turned [the hard drive contents] over [to the Post] because the intent of the source was to get the hard drive to Rudy Giuliani so he could do something with it, bring it to the public’s attention,” Costello said.

Costello said it was “reasonable” to assume Isaac wanted the hard drive’s contents given to the Post because he was frustrated by his perceived lack of law enforcement action by the FBI, who had possessed the laptop since December 2019. Costello said the laptop’s original owner never retrieved his property, therefore it was “considered abandoned property” that “became the property of the source.”

Both Facebook and Twitter took action against the Post article, with Twitter blocking users from posting links to it. Twitter said it did so because the story included personal and private information, and its content violated Twitter’s policy against posting hacked material.

“We don’t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials,” the platform stated.

A Facebook executive said their company suppressed the distribution of the story on its platform to stem the spread of misinformation, pending review by Facebook’s fact-checking partners.

The platforms’ actions prompted a rebuke from Trump.

“So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of ‘Smoking Gun’ emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter,” Trump tweeted. “It is only the beginning for them. There is nothing worse than a corrupt politician.”

The release of the extra copy to Mr Giuliani, however, and subsequent release to the New York Post, though, was certainly done for political reasons, in the same way the release of Mr Trump's tax records was done to other papers (although in that case there is no source listed\able to be verified\confirmed).

I read somewhere in the piles of information that the shopkeeper was pro-Trump?

Might it not be a coincidence that the was leaked to Giuliani for the specific purpose/opportunity to dig dirt on Biden's son thus having the desired effect of making mud stick to Biden Snr at this crucial point prior to the election?:

I read somewhere in the piles of information that the shopkeeper was pro-Trump?

Might it not be a coincidence that the was leaked to Giuliani for the specific purpose/opportunity to dig dirt on Biden's son thus having the desired effect of making mud stick to Biden Snr at this crucial point prior to the election?:

It will be interesting to see what the FBI investigation comes up with (It shouldn't take long, in theory) regarding Russian interference related to the sourcing of the emails - Supposedly they have the subpoena'd laptop and are aware of where\who it was subpoena'd from. Of course, it is theoretically possible that long before Mr Biden nominated for his party that a laptop with this information was passed along to the store, but that will be difficult to determine as it occurred 18 months ago. Alternatively, it may have been supplied nearer to December, with the invoice being "back dated" at the shop, and the FBI being informed of the contents back then, but even that would be a long shot, given the primaries hadn't occurred, and for a long time Mr Sanders appeared to be the most likely to win nomination.

So, it seems like the FBI has already finished their investigation.