"How did the laptop surface?
A computer repair shop owner in Wilmington, Del., named John Paul Mac Isaac has said Hunter Biden left a damaged Apple computer at his shop in April 2019 and asked to recover any data. Mr. Isaac said in an interview with The New York Times last week outside the shop that he is legally blind and could not be sure whether the man was Hunter Biden but asked his name to fill out a work order, and the man identified himself as Hunter Biden. Mr. Isaac said the man came to his shop twice but never returned to retrieve the computer or an external hard drive on which its contents had been stored."
>So, a 'legally blind' (how convenient) shop owner says a man came into his shop and said his name was "Hunter Biden", but 'could not be sure' of that...hardly convincing evidence that Hunter Biden really did drop off his computer at that shop.
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Another excerpt from the linked NYT article...
"The laptop prompted concerns about Russian disinformation because the intelligence community has warned for months about Russian attempts to influence the election, including by spreading disinformation about the Biden family. Russia has conducted a hacking campaign to find information damaging to the Biden campaign, most notably through a hack on Burisma.
Intelligence officials have also warned the White House that Russian intelligence officers were using Mr. Giuliani, who provided the hard drive copy to the tabloid, as a conduit for disinformation aimed at undermining Mr. Biden’s presidential run"
.>So, this unverified laptop with just enough disparaging info shows up just before the 2020 election and guess who's right there to talk about it...that's right...Rudy Giuliani...the very person Intelligence officials were warning about...because of his association with Russians...btw...remember the Ukraine "Quid pro Quo" fiasco?
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Finally, this closing segment...
"What don’t we know?
A lot. Mr. Isaac, who said he voted for Mr. Trump in 2016, declined to answer many questions about the laptop and his contacts with the F.B.I. He also would not talk about his communications with the Trump loyalists who orchestrated the plan to make the computer’s contents public just before the election.
It is also not clear what the F.B.I. did with the laptop or what Justice Department officials knew about the sensitive F.B.I. investigation at the time. F.B.I. officials have declined to discuss the inquiry.
>It's been quite awhile since this unfolded and there's still no verifiable "smoking gun"...just what a dis-information project is built for.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/hunter-biden-laptop.html