Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in newly aggressive strategy, target his critics (WP)

His attorneys have sent letters to prosecutors urging
probes of Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and others

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in a newly aggressive strategy, sent a series of blistering letters Wednesday to state and federal prosecutors urging criminal investigations into those who accessed and disseminated his personal data — and sent a separate
letter threatening Fox News host Tucker Carlson with a defamation lawsuit.

The string of letters, which included criminal referrals and cease-and-desist missives aimed at critics and detractors, marked the start of a new and far more hard-hitting phase for the president’s son just as House Republicans prepare their own
investigations into him.

Abbe Lowell, a recently hired lawyer whom Hunter Biden enlisted about a month ago, sent lengthy letters to the Department of Justice and Delaware’s attorney general requesting investigations into several key players who were involved in disseminating
data from a laptop that Biden is said to have dropped off at a repair shop in Wilmington, Del.

Bryan M. Sullivan, another lawyer now representing Biden, sent a separate communication to Carlson and Fox News demanding that they correct falsehoods from his recent show, or risk a possible defamation lawsuit.

And in another letter, Lowell wrote to the Internal Revenue Service challenging the nonprofit status of Marco Polo, a group that is run by conservative activist Garett M. Ziegler. Lowell provided 36 pages as evidence that the group is engaging in
political activity in violation of its nonprofit status.

Taken together, the actions represent the boldest and most aggressive moves to date from Hunter Biden, who has often heeded the advice of those who urged him not to make public waves. Those close to President Biden and the White House have preferred a
more conservative approach, but some individuals around Hunter Biden have wanted to be more assertive in telling his side of the story and going more directly after his opponents.

“This marks a new approach by Hunter Biden and his team,” said one person familiar with his strategy, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private plans. “He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to violate
his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him.”

The new strategy marks a calculated risk that it is better to forge a combative path, and take on Hunter Biden’s longtime critics, even if it means inviting more news coverage of a dark chapter in his life and draws additional attention to the trove of
personal and embarrassing material included on a laptop that has been disseminated by his detractors.

In the letter related to the laptop, Hunter Biden’s lawyers are asking state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate individuals who came into possession of the data that he purportedly dropped off in Delaware in April 2019. They claim that
about a half-dozen people have violated various statutes, including by making public restricted private information; accessing and disseminating stolen property; and making false statements to Congress.

“The actions described above more than merit a full investigation and, depending on the resulting facts, may merit prosecution under various statutes,” the letter reads. “It is not a common thing for a private person and his counsel to seek someone
else being investigated, but the actions and motives here require it.”

The letter is particularly focused on John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repair shop owner who first received the material from Biden in April 2019. Mac Isaac has written a book and spoken at political events, and Biden’s lawyers point to
inconsistencies in his account.

The letter also requests investigations into former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was given the material from Mac Isaac and later distributed it; Robert Costello, who is Giuliani’s lawyer and also received the material; and Stephen K. Bannon, who
has also had the material and helped facilitate initial news stories about it.

Hunter Biden’s attorneys also name Jack Maxey, who provided the material to several news outlets, including The Washington Post, as well as Ziegler, who has uploaded data onto his website, and Yaacov Apelbaum, a former aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (D-Wis.)
who Mac Isaac has said helped create a “forensic image” of the hard drive.

As the material has circulated among conservative activists and media organizations, it has fostered a debate about its authenticity. In filing the complaint, however, Biden’s lawyers seem to be conceding that some of the data Biden’s lawyers seem to
be conceding that some of the data that has been made public is his private information, even as they say that other materials could have been later altered. They don’t state whether or not he did, in fact, drop off a laptop for repairs.

“These unlawful actions caused the widespread publication, manipulation, and exploitation of Mr. Biden’s most personal information,” Lowell writes in one of the letters.

Citing Mac Isaac’s admissions that he reviewed some of Hunter Biden’s financial information on the laptop, the lawyers say he had no authority or permission to do so.

“Backing up Mr. Biden’s files for any repair did not require Mr. Mac Isaac to review the contents of any such files,” Lowell writes. “Mr. Biden did not consent to Mr. Mac Isaac gaining access to the content of those files in April 2019 or at any
other time.”

The letters also reveal that in December, another one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys — Chris Clark, a former federal prosecutor and New York-based partner at Latham & Watkins — sent a similar criminal referral focused solely on Mac Isaac to the U.S.
Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

The laptop has been the subject of intense scrutiny dating from stories that the New York Post published just before the 2020 election. At the time, The Washington Post repeatedly asked Giuliani and Bannon for a copy of the data to review, but the
requests were rebuffed or ignored.

In June 2021, Maxey, who previously worked as a researcher for Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, delivered to The Washington Post a portable hard drive that he said contained the data. He said he had obtained it from Giuliani.

The Post asked two security experts to examine 217 gigabytes of data on the drive, and they found nearly 22,000 emails carrying cryptographic signatures that could be verified using technology that would be difficult for even the most sophisticated
hackers to fake. The vast majority of the data — and most of the nearly 129,000 emails it contained — could not be verified, the security experts said.

Hunter Biden has said he is unsure if the laptop is his and he does not remember dropping it off, but he has conceded that his memory at the height of his drug addiction was not reliable. His allies also suggest that materials later made public may be a
mix of materials obtained in various ways.

During the same period, Biden also left a laptop with Keith Ablow, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist who has been close to Republican activist Roger Stone. That laptop was seized by agents who raided Ablow’s office in February 2020, and it was
eventually returned to Hunter Biden.

Kevin Morris, one of Hunter Biden’s friends and associates, has been overseeing a forensic analysis of that laptop to determine if it was the basis of the hard drives that were later distributed by Trump allies.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers also claim that he has been defamed by Fox News, in a story that Carlson aired in which he falsely said that Hunter Biden had paid $50,000 in “rent” to his father, a scheme that he suggested was being used to funnel money
from father to son.

But the reality, as deconstructed by The Washington Post Fact Checker, showed that Hunter Biden was actually paying $49,910 every three months for office space in Washington.

Some other outlets, including The Daily Caller, later updated and retracted their stories.

“We demand that you immediately retract these statements by spending a significant of amount of air-time on such retraction,” Sullivan wrote in the letter to Carlson and a Fox News attorney.

He demanded apologies from Carlson and other commentators — including Fox’s Sean Hannity — who have made similar claims, and requested Fox News to respond in writing by Thursday.

“If we do not receive this written confirmation, we will assume that you both are not interested in acting responsibly and professionally and willing to reverse its actual malice reporting,” Sullivan wrote.

Citing the potential for litigation, Sullivan also demanded that Fox News preserve all communications and documents related to the story.

In one twist of irony, Carlson and Biden have a long history and a one-time friendship. The Post wrote last year about how their families were friends, and how Tucker Carlson and his wife asked for Biden’s help in getting their son into Georgetown.

Carlson, during a phone interview for that article, said that he was once close with Biden, as he has stated on his show.

“Hunter Biden was my neighbor. Our wives were friends. I knew him well. I talked to him many times about addiction, something I know a lot about,” Carlson said. “And I’ve said that. I think that Hunter Biden is an addict and that’s why his life
is falling apart, and I feel bad for him. I’ve said that many times, and I mean it.”
_________________________

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On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 7:26:50 PM UTC-5, VegasJerry wrote:

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in newly aggressive strategy, target his critics (WP)

His attorneys have sent letters to prosecutors urging
probes of Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and others

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in a newly aggressive strategy, sent a series of blistering letters Wednesday to state and federal prosecutors urging criminal investigations into those who accessed and disseminated his personal data — and sent a separate

letter threatening Fox News host Tucker Carlson with a defamation lawsuit.

The string of letters, which included criminal referrals and cease-and-desist missives aimed at critics and detractors, marked the start of a new and far more hard-hitting phase for the president’s son just as House Republicans prepare their own

investigations into him.

Abbe Lowell, a recently hired lawyer whom Hunter Biden enlisted about a month ago, sent lengthy letters to the Department of Justice and Delaware’s attorney general requesting investigations into several key players who were involved in disseminating

data from a laptop that Biden is said to have dropped off at a repair shop in Wilmington, Del.

Bryan M. Sullivan, another lawyer now representing Biden, sent a separate communication to Carlson and Fox News demanding that they correct falsehoods from his recent show, or risk a possible defamation lawsuit.

And in another letter, Lowell wrote to the Internal Revenue Service challenging the nonprofit status of Marco Polo, a group that is run by conservative activist Garett M. Ziegler. Lowell provided 36 pages as evidence that the group is engaging in

political activity in violation of its nonprofit status.

Taken together, the actions represent the boldest and most aggressive moves to date from Hunter Biden, who has often heeded the advice of those who urged him not to make public waves. Those close to President Biden and the White House have preferred a

more conservative approach, but some individuals around Hunter Biden have wanted to be more assertive in telling his side of the story and going more directly after his opponents.

“This marks a new approach by Hunter Biden and his team,” said one person familiar with his strategy, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private plans. “He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to

violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him.”

The new strategy marks a calculated risk that it is better to forge a combative path, and take on Hunter Biden’s longtime critics, even if it means inviting more news coverage of a dark chapter in his life and draws additional attention to the trove

of personal and embarrassing material included on a laptop that has been disseminated by his detractors.

In the letter related to the laptop, Hunter Biden’s lawyers are asking state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate individuals who came into possession of the data that he purportedly dropped off in Delaware in April 2019. They claim

that about a half-dozen people have violated various statutes, including by making public restricted private information; accessing and disseminating stolen property; and making false statements to Congress.

“The actions described above more than merit a full investigation and, depending on the resulting facts, may merit prosecution under various statutes,” the letter reads. “It is not a common thing for a private person and his counsel to seek

someone else being investigated, but the actions and motives here require it.”

The letter is particularly focused on John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repair shop owner who first received the material from Biden in April 2019. Mac Isaac has written a book and spoken at political events, and Biden’s lawyers point to

inconsistencies in his account.

The letter also requests investigations into former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was given the material from Mac Isaac and later distributed it; Robert Costello, who is Giuliani’s lawyer and also received the material; and Stephen K. Bannon, who

has also had the material and helped facilitate initial news stories about it.

Hunter Biden’s attorneys also name Jack Maxey, who provided the material to several news outlets, including The Washington Post, as well as Ziegler, who has uploaded data onto his website, and Yaacov Apelbaum, a former aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (D-Wis.

) who Mac Isaac has said helped create a “forensic image” of the hard drive.

As the material has circulated among conservative activists and media organizations, it has fostered a debate about its authenticity. In filing the complaint, however, Biden’s lawyers seem to be conceding that some of the data Biden’s lawyers seem

to be conceding that some of the data that has been made public is his private information, even as they say that other materials could have been later altered. They don’t state whether or not he did, in fact, drop off a laptop for repairs.

“These unlawful actions caused the widespread publication, manipulation, and exploitation of Mr. Biden’s most personal information,” Lowell writes in one of the letters.

Citing Mac Isaac’s admissions that he reviewed some of Hunter Biden’s financial information on the laptop, the lawyers say he had no authority or permission to do so.

“Backing up Mr. Biden’s files for any repair did not require Mr. Mac Isaac to review the contents of any such files,” Lowell writes. “Mr. Biden did not consent to Mr. Mac Isaac gaining access to the content of those files in April 2019 or at

any other time.”

The letters also reveal that in December, another one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys — Chris Clark, a former federal prosecutor and New York-based partner at Latham & Watkins — sent a similar criminal referral focused solely on Mac Isaac to the U.S.

Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

The laptop has been the subject of intense scrutiny dating from stories that the New York Post published just before the 2020 election. At the time, The Washington Post repeatedly asked Giuliani and Bannon for a copy of the data to review, but the

requests were rebuffed or ignored.

In June 2021, Maxey, who previously worked as a researcher for Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, delivered to The Washington Post a portable hard drive that he said contained the data. He said he had obtained it from Giuliani.

The Post asked two security experts to examine 217 gigabytes of data on the drive, and they found nearly 22,000 emails carrying cryptographic signatures that could be verified using technology that would be difficult for even the most sophisticated

hackers to fake. The vast majority of the data — and most of the nearly 129,000 emails it contained — could not be verified, the security experts said.

Hunter Biden has said he is unsure if the laptop is his and he does not remember dropping it off, but he has conceded that his memory at the height of his drug addiction was not reliable. His allies also suggest that materials later made public may be

a mix of materials obtained in various ways.

During the same period, Biden also left a laptop with Keith Ablow, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist who has been close to Republican activist Roger Stone. That laptop was seized by agents who raided Ablow’s office in February 2020, and it was

eventually returned to Hunter Biden.

Kevin Morris, one of Hunter Biden’s friends and associates, has been overseeing a forensic analysis of that laptop to determine if it was the basis of the hard drives that were later distributed by Trump allies.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers also claim that he has been defamed by Fox News, in a story that Carlson aired in which he falsely said that Hunter Biden had paid $50,000 in “rent” to his father, a scheme that he suggested was being used to funnel money

from father to son.

But the reality, as deconstructed by The Washington Post Fact Checker, showed that Hunter Biden was actually paying $49,910 every three months for office space in Washington.

Some other outlets, including The Daily Caller, later updated and retracted their stories.

“We demand that you immediately retract these statements by spending a significant of amount of air-time on such retraction,” Sullivan wrote in the letter to Carlson and a Fox News attorney.

He demanded apologies from Carlson and other commentators — including Fox’s Sean Hannity — who have made similar claims, and requested Fox News to respond in writing by Thursday.

“If we do not receive this written confirmation, we will assume that you both are not interested in acting responsibly and professionally and willing to reverse its actual malice reporting,” Sullivan wrote.

Citing the potential for litigation, Sullivan also demanded that Fox News preserve all communications and documents related to the story.

In one twist of irony, Carlson and Biden have a long history and a one-time friendship. The Post wrote last year about how their families were friends, and how Tucker Carlson and his wife asked for Biden’s help in getting their son into Georgetown.

Carlson, during a phone interview for that article, said that he was once close with Biden, as he has stated on his show.

“Hunter Biden was my neighbor. Our wives were friends. I knew him well. I talked to him many times about addiction, something I know a lot about,” Carlson said. “And I’ve said that. I think that Hunter Biden is an addict and that’s why his

life is falling apart, and I feel bad for him. I’ve said that many times, and I mean it.”

_________________________

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

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On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 8:05:19 AM UTC-8, BTSinAustin wrote:

On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 7:26:50 PM UTC-5, VegasJerry wrote:

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in newly aggressive strategy, target his critics (WP)

His attorneys have sent letters to prosecutors urging
probes of Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and others

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in a newly aggressive strategy, sent a series of blistering letters Wednesday to state and federal prosecutors urging criminal investigations into those who accessed and disseminated his personal data — and sent a separate

letter threatening Fox News host Tucker Carlson with a defamation lawsuit.

The string of letters, which included criminal referrals and cease-and-desist missives aimed at critics and detractors, marked the start of a new and far more hard-hitting phase for the president’s son just as House Republicans prepare their own

investigations into him.

Abbe Lowell, a recently hired lawyer whom Hunter Biden enlisted about a month ago, sent lengthy letters to the Department of Justice and Delaware’s attorney general requesting investigations into several key players who were involved in

disseminating data from a laptop that Biden is said to have dropped off at a repair shop in Wilmington, Del.

Bryan M. Sullivan, another lawyer now representing Biden, sent a separate communication to Carlson and Fox News demanding that they correct falsehoods from his recent show, or risk a possible defamation lawsuit.

And in another letter, Lowell wrote to the Internal Revenue Service challenging the nonprofit status of Marco Polo, a group that is run by conservative activist Garett M. Ziegler. Lowell provided 36 pages as evidence that the group is engaging in

political activity in violation of its nonprofit status.

Taken together, the actions represent the boldest and most aggressive moves to date from Hunter Biden, who has often heeded the advice of those who urged him not to make public waves. Those close to President Biden and the White House have preferred

a more conservative approach, but some individuals around Hunter Biden have wanted to be more assertive in telling his side of the story and going more directly after his opponents.

“This marks a new approach by Hunter Biden and his team,” said one person familiar with his strategy, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private plans. “He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to

violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him.”

The new strategy marks a calculated risk that it is better to forge a combative path, and take on Hunter Biden’s longtime critics, even if it means inviting more news coverage of a dark chapter in his life and draws additional attention to the

trove of personal and embarrassing material included on a laptop that has been disseminated by his detractors.

In the letter related to the laptop, Hunter Biden’s lawyers are asking state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate individuals who came into possession of the data that he purportedly dropped off in Delaware in April 2019. They claim

that about a half-dozen people have violated various statutes, including by making public restricted private information; accessing and disseminating stolen property; and making false statements to Congress.

“The actions described above more than merit a full investigation and, depending on the resulting facts, may merit prosecution under various statutes,” the letter reads. “It is not a common thing for a private person and his counsel to seek

someone else being investigated, but the actions and motives here require it.”

The letter is particularly focused on John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repair shop owner who first received the material from Biden in April 2019. Mac Isaac has written a book and spoken at political events, and Biden’s lawyers point to

inconsistencies in his account.

The letter also requests investigations into former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was given the material from Mac Isaac and later distributed it; Robert Costello, who is Giuliani’s lawyer and also received the material; and Stephen K. Bannon,

who has also had the material and helped facilitate initial news stories about it.

Hunter Biden’s attorneys also name Jack Maxey, who provided the material to several news outlets, including The Washington Post, as well as Ziegler, who has uploaded data onto his website, and Yaacov Apelbaum, a former aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (D-

Wis.) who Mac Isaac has said helped create a “forensic image” of the hard drive.

As the material has circulated among conservative activists and media organizations, it has fostered a debate about its authenticity. In filing the complaint, however, Biden’s lawyers seem to be conceding that some of the data Biden’s lawyers

seem to be conceding that some of the data that has been made public is his private information, even as they say that other materials could have been later altered. They don’t state whether or not he did, in fact, drop off a laptop for repairs.

“These unlawful actions caused the widespread publication, manipulation, and exploitation of Mr. Biden’s most personal information,” Lowell writes in one of the letters.

Citing Mac Isaac’s admissions that he reviewed some of Hunter Biden’s financial information on the laptop, the lawyers say he had no authority or permission to do so.

“Backing up Mr. Biden’s files for any repair did not require Mr. Mac Isaac to review the contents of any such files,” Lowell writes. “Mr. Biden did not consent to Mr. Mac Isaac gaining access to the content of those files in April 2019 or at

any other time.”

The letters also reveal that in December, another one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys — Chris Clark, a former federal prosecutor and New York-based partner at Latham & Watkins — sent a similar criminal referral focused solely on Mac Isaac to the U.

S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

The laptop has been the subject of intense scrutiny dating from stories that the New York Post published just before the 2020 election. At the time, The Washington Post repeatedly asked Giuliani and Bannon for a copy of the data to review, but the

requests were rebuffed or ignored.

In June 2021, Maxey, who previously worked as a researcher for Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, delivered to The Washington Post a portable hard drive that he said contained the data. He said he had obtained it from Giuliani.

The Post asked two security experts to examine 217 gigabytes of data on the drive, and they found nearly 22,000 emails carrying cryptographic signatures that could be verified using technology that would be difficult for even the most sophisticated

hackers to fake. The vast majority of the data — and most of the nearly 129,000 emails it contained — could not be verified, the security experts said.

Hunter Biden has said he is unsure if the laptop is his and he does not remember dropping it off, but he has conceded that his memory at the height of his drug addiction was not reliable. His allies also suggest that materials later made public may

be a mix of materials obtained in various ways.

During the same period, Biden also left a laptop with Keith Ablow, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist who has been close to Republican activist Roger Stone. That laptop was seized by agents who raided Ablow’s office in February 2020, and it was

eventually returned to Hunter Biden.

Kevin Morris, one of Hunter Biden’s friends and associates, has been overseeing a forensic analysis of that laptop to determine if it was the basis of the hard drives that were later distributed by Trump allies.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers also claim that he has been defamed by Fox News, in a story that Carlson aired in which he falsely said that Hunter Biden had paid $50,000 in “rent” to his father, a scheme that he suggested was being used to funnel money

from father to son.

But the reality, as deconstructed by The Washington Post Fact Checker, showed that Hunter Biden was actually paying $49,910 every three months for office space in Washington.

Some other outlets, including The Daily Caller, later updated and retracted their stories.

“We demand that you immediately retract these statements by spending a significant of amount of air-time on such retraction,” Sullivan wrote in the letter to Carlson and a Fox News attorney.

He demanded apologies from Carlson and other commentators — including Fox’s Sean Hannity — who have made similar claims, and requested Fox News to respond in writing by Thursday.

“If we do not receive this written confirmation, we will assume that you both are not interested in acting responsibly and professionally and willing to reverse its actual malice reporting,” Sullivan wrote.

Citing the potential for litigation, Sullivan also demanded that Fox News preserve all communications and documents related to the story.

In one twist of irony, Carlson and Biden have a long history and a one-time friendship. The Post wrote last year about how their families were friends, and how Tucker Carlson and his wife asked for Biden’s help in getting their son into Georgetown.

Carlson, during a phone interview for that article, said that he was once close with Biden, as he has stated on his show.

“Hunter Biden was my neighbor. Our wives were friends. I knew him well. I talked to him many times about addiction, something I know a lot about,” Carlson said. “And I’ve said that. I think that Hunter Biden is an addict and that’s why his

life is falling apart, and I feel bad for him. I’ve said that many times, and I mean it.”

_________________________

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

.

Too late. Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon have been served. FOX was told to "Correct and apologize on air for the same amount of time as they did lying about Hunter." No answer yet, but they're presently in court for doing the same thing on Dominion Voting
machines. And that's going to cost FOX $1.5 Billion. Right Wing nuts never learn..

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~ On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 8:05:19 AM UTC-8, BTSinAustin wrote:

~ Don't do the crime if you can't do the time


Haven't you been propagating these same Hinter Biden lies at RGP?

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On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 12:40:01 PM UTC-8, risky biz wrote:

~ On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 8:05:19 AM UTC-8, BTSinAustin wrote:

~ Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

Haven't you been propagating these same Hinter Biden lies at RGP?

.

No, he's talking about Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and FOX.
(Weren't you?)

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On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 3:40:01 PM UTC-5, risky biz wrote:

~ On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 8:05:19 AM UTC-8, BTSinAustin wrote:

~ Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

Haven't you been propagating these same Hinter Biden lies at RGP?

We will see

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On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 8:22:22 AM UTC-8, BTSinAustin wrote:

On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 3:40:01 PM UTC-5, risky biz wrote:

~ On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 8:05:19 AM UTC-8, BTSinAustin wrote:

~ Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

Haven't you been propagating these same Hinter Biden lies at RGP?

~ We will see


What I see is that aggressively propagating accusations and innuendos which are unsupported by any evidence are lies.

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On Friday, February 3, 2023 at 8:22:22 AM UTC-8, BTSinAustin wrote:

On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 3:40:01 PM UTC-5, risky biz wrote:

~ On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 8:05:19 AM UTC-8, BTSinAustin wrote:

~ Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

Haven't you been propagating these same Hinter Biden lies at RGP?

We will see

And it will be interesting, because Republicans are slated to start the Hunter Investigation next week, but they need
illegally obtained and private emails from the laptop to start.

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On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 11:05:19 AM UTC-5, BTSinAustin wrote:

On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 7:26:50 PM UTC-5, VegasJerry wrote:

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in newly aggressive strategy, target his critics (WP)

His attorneys have sent letters to prosecutors urging
probes of Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and others

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in a newly aggressive strategy, sent a series of blistering letters Wednesday to state and federal prosecutors urging criminal investigations into those who accessed and disseminated his personal data — and sent a separate

letter threatening Fox News host Tucker Carlson with a defamation lawsuit.

The string of letters, which included criminal referrals and cease-and-desist missives aimed at critics and detractors, marked the start of a new and far more hard-hitting phase for the president’s son just as House Republicans prepare their own

investigations into him.

Abbe Lowell, a recently hired lawyer whom Hunter Biden enlisted about a month ago, sent lengthy letters to the Department of Justice and Delaware’s attorney general requesting investigations into several key players who were involved in

disseminating data from a laptop that Biden is said to have dropped off at a repair shop in Wilmington, Del.

Bryan M. Sullivan, another lawyer now representing Biden, sent a separate communication to Carlson and Fox News demanding that they correct falsehoods from his recent show, or risk a possible defamation lawsuit.

And in another letter, Lowell wrote to the Internal Revenue Service challenging the nonprofit status of Marco Polo, a group that is run by conservative activist Garett M. Ziegler. Lowell provided 36 pages as evidence that the group is engaging in

political activity in violation of its nonprofit status.

Taken together, the actions represent the boldest and most aggressive moves to date from Hunter Biden, who has often heeded the advice of those who urged him not to make public waves. Those close to President Biden and the White House have preferred

a more conservative approach, but some individuals around Hunter Biden have wanted to be more assertive in telling his side of the story and going more directly after his opponents.

“This marks a new approach by Hunter Biden and his team,” said one person familiar with his strategy, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private plans. “He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to

violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him.”

The new strategy marks a calculated risk that it is better to forge a combative path, and take on Hunter Biden’s longtime critics, even if it means inviting more news coverage of a dark chapter in his life and draws additional attention to the

trove of personal and embarrassing material included on a laptop that has been disseminated by his detractors.

In the letter related to the laptop, Hunter Biden’s lawyers are asking state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate individuals who came into possession of the data that he purportedly dropped off in Delaware in April 2019. They claim

that about a half-dozen people have violated various statutes, including by making public restricted private information; accessing and disseminating stolen property; and making false statements to Congress.

“The actions described above more than merit a full investigation and, depending on the resulting facts, may merit prosecution under various statutes,” the letter reads. “It is not a common thing for a private person and his counsel to seek

someone else being investigated, but the actions and motives here require it.”

The letter is particularly focused on John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repair shop owner who first received the material from Biden in April 2019. Mac Isaac has written a book and spoken at political events, and Biden’s lawyers point to

inconsistencies in his account.

The letter also requests investigations into former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was given the material from Mac Isaac and later distributed it; Robert Costello, who is Giuliani’s lawyer and also received the material; and Stephen K. Bannon,

who has also had the material and helped facilitate initial news stories about it.

Hunter Biden’s attorneys also name Jack Maxey, who provided the material to several news outlets, including The Washington Post, as well as Ziegler, who has uploaded data onto his website, and Yaacov Apelbaum, a former aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (D-

Wis.) who Mac Isaac has said helped create a “forensic image” of the hard drive.

As the material has circulated among conservative activists and media organizations, it has fostered a debate about its authenticity. In filing the complaint, however, Biden’s lawyers seem to be conceding that some of the data Biden’s lawyers

seem to be conceding that some of the data that has been made public is his private information, even as they say that other materials could have been later altered. They don’t state whether or not he did, in fact, drop off a laptop for repairs.

“These unlawful actions caused the widespread publication, manipulation, and exploitation of Mr. Biden’s most personal information,” Lowell writes in one of the letters.

Citing Mac Isaac’s admissions that he reviewed some of Hunter Biden’s financial information on the laptop, the lawyers say he had no authority or permission to do so.

“Backing up Mr. Biden’s files for any repair did not require Mr. Mac Isaac to review the contents of any such files,” Lowell writes. “Mr. Biden did not consent to Mr. Mac Isaac gaining access to the content of those files in April 2019 or at

any other time.”

The letters also reveal that in December, another one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys — Chris Clark, a former federal prosecutor and New York-based partner at Latham & Watkins — sent a similar criminal referral focused solely on Mac Isaac to the U.

S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

The laptop has been the subject of intense scrutiny dating from stories that the New York Post published just before the 2020 election. At the time, The Washington Post repeatedly asked Giuliani and Bannon for a copy of the data to review, but the

requests were rebuffed or ignored.

In June 2021, Maxey, who previously worked as a researcher for Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, delivered to The Washington Post a portable hard drive that he said contained the data. He said he had obtained it from Giuliani.

The Post asked two security experts to examine 217 gigabytes of data on the drive, and they found nearly 22,000 emails carrying cryptographic signatures that could be verified using technology that would be difficult for even the most sophisticated

hackers to fake. The vast majority of the data — and most of the nearly 129,000 emails it contained — could not be verified, the security experts said.

Hunter Biden has said he is unsure if the laptop is his and he does not remember dropping it off, but he has conceded that his memory at the height of his drug addiction was not reliable. His allies also suggest that materials later made public may

be a mix of materials obtained in various ways.

During the same period, Biden also left a laptop with Keith Ablow, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist who has been close to Republican activist Roger Stone. That laptop was seized by agents who raided Ablow’s office in February 2020, and it was

eventually returned to Hunter Biden.

Kevin Morris, one of Hunter Biden’s friends and associates, has been overseeing a forensic analysis of that laptop to determine if it was the basis of the hard drives that were later distributed by Trump allies.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers also claim that he has been defamed by Fox News, in a story that Carlson aired in which he falsely said that Hunter Biden had paid $50,000 in “rent” to his father, a scheme that he suggested was being used to funnel money

from father to son.

But the reality, as deconstructed by The Washington Post Fact Checker, showed that Hunter Biden was actually paying $49,910 every three months for office space in Washington.

Some other outlets, including The Daily Caller, later updated and retracted their stories.

“We demand that you immediately retract these statements by spending a significant of amount of air-time on such retraction,” Sullivan wrote in the letter to Carlson and a Fox News attorney.

He demanded apologies from Carlson and other commentators — including Fox’s Sean Hannity — who have made similar claims, and requested Fox News to respond in writing by Thursday.

“If we do not receive this written confirmation, we will assume that you both are not interested in acting responsibly and professionally and willing to reverse its actual malice reporting,” Sullivan wrote.

Citing the potential for litigation, Sullivan also demanded that Fox News preserve all communications and documents related to the story.

In one twist of irony, Carlson and Biden have a long history and a one-time friendship. The Post wrote last year about how their families were friends, and how Tucker Carlson and his wife asked for Biden’s help in getting their son into Georgetown.

Carlson, during a phone interview for that article, said that he was once close with Biden, as he has stated on his show.

“Hunter Biden was my neighbor. Our wives were friends. I knew him well. I talked to him many times about addiction, something I know a lot about,” Carlson said. “And I’ve said that. I think that Hunter Biden is an addict and that’s why his

life is falling apart, and I feel bad for him. I’ve said that many times, and I mean it.”

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Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

For America's sake I hope Hunter Biden goes to prison, Joe is
Impeached and they open a full investigation of the whole
crooked Biden clan. Any loss for the Biden's is a win
for America.

Irish Mike

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On Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 11:45:15 AM UTC-8, Irish Mike wrote:

On Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 11:05:19 AM UTC-5, BTSinAustin wrote:

On Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 7:26:50 PM UTC-5, VegasJerry wrote:

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in newly aggressive strategy, target his critics (WP)

His attorneys have sent letters to prosecutors urging
probes of Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and others

Hunter Biden’s lawyers, in a newly aggressive strategy, sent a series of blistering letters Wednesday to state and federal prosecutors urging criminal investigations into those who accessed and disseminated his personal data — and sent a

separate letter threatening Fox News host Tucker Carlson with a defamation lawsuit.

The string of letters, which included criminal referrals and cease-and-desist missives aimed at critics and detractors, marked the start of a new and far more hard-hitting phase for the president’s son just as House Republicans prepare their own

investigations into him.

Abbe Lowell, a recently hired lawyer whom Hunter Biden enlisted about a month ago, sent lengthy letters to the Department of Justice and Delaware’s attorney general requesting investigations into several key players who were involved in

disseminating data from a laptop that Biden is said to have dropped off at a repair shop in Wilmington, Del.

Bryan M. Sullivan, another lawyer now representing Biden, sent a separate communication to Carlson and Fox News demanding that they correct falsehoods from his recent show, or risk a possible defamation lawsuit.

And in another letter, Lowell wrote to the Internal Revenue Service challenging the nonprofit status of Marco Polo, a group that is run by conservative activist Garett M. Ziegler. Lowell provided 36 pages as evidence that the group is engaging in

political activity in violation of its nonprofit status.

Taken together, the actions represent the boldest and most aggressive moves to date from Hunter Biden, who has often heeded the advice of those who urged him not to make public waves. Those close to President Biden and the White House have

preferred a more conservative approach, but some individuals around Hunter Biden have wanted to be more assertive in telling his side of the story and going more directly after his opponents.

“This marks a new approach by Hunter Biden and his team,” said one person familiar with his strategy, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private plans. “He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to

violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him.”

The new strategy marks a calculated risk that it is better to forge a combative path, and take on Hunter Biden’s longtime critics, even if it means inviting more news coverage of a dark chapter in his life and draws additional attention to the

trove of personal and embarrassing material included on a laptop that has been disseminated by his detractors.

In the letter related to the laptop, Hunter Biden’s lawyers are asking state and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate individuals who came into possession of the data that he purportedly dropped off in Delaware in April 2019. They

claim that about a half-dozen people have violated various statutes, including by making public restricted private information; accessing and disseminating stolen property; and making false statements to Congress.

“The actions described above more than merit a full investigation and, depending on the resulting facts, may merit prosecution under various statutes,” the letter reads. “It is not a common thing for a private person and his counsel to seek

someone else being investigated, but the actions and motives here require it.”

The letter is particularly focused on John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer repair shop owner who first received the material from Biden in April 2019. Mac Isaac has written a book and spoken at political events, and Biden’s lawyers point to

inconsistencies in his account.

The letter also requests investigations into former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was given the material from Mac Isaac and later distributed it; Robert Costello, who is Giuliani’s lawyer and also received the material; and Stephen K. Bannon,

who has also had the material and helped facilitate initial news stories about it.

Hunter Biden’s attorneys also name Jack Maxey, who provided the material to several news outlets, including The Washington Post, as well as Ziegler, who has uploaded data onto his website, and Yaacov Apelbaum, a former aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (D-

Wis.) who Mac Isaac has said helped create a “forensic image” of the hard drive.

As the material has circulated among conservative activists and media organizations, it has fostered a debate about its authenticity. In filing the complaint, however, Biden’s lawyers seem to be conceding that some of the data Biden’s lawyers

seem to be conceding that some of the data that has been made public is his private information, even as they say that other materials could have been later altered. They don’t state whether or not he did, in fact, drop off a laptop for repairs.

“These unlawful actions caused the widespread publication, manipulation, and exploitation of Mr. Biden’s most personal information,” Lowell writes in one of the letters.

Citing Mac Isaac’s admissions that he reviewed some of Hunter Biden’s financial information on the laptop, the lawyers say he had no authority or permission to do so.

“Backing up Mr. Biden’s files for any repair did not require Mr. Mac Isaac to review the contents of any such files,” Lowell writes. “Mr. Biden did not consent to Mr. Mac Isaac gaining access to the content of those files in April 2019 or

at any other time.”

The letters also reveal that in December, another one of Hunter Biden’s attorneys — Chris Clark, a former federal prosecutor and New York-based partner at Latham & Watkins — sent a similar criminal referral focused solely on Mac Isaac to the

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

The laptop has been the subject of intense scrutiny dating from stories that the New York Post published just before the 2020 election. At the time, The Washington Post repeatedly asked Giuliani and Bannon for a copy of the data to review, but the

requests were rebuffed or ignored.

In June 2021, Maxey, who previously worked as a researcher for Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, delivered to The Washington Post a portable hard drive that he said contained the data. He said he had obtained it from Giuliani.

The Post asked two security experts to examine 217 gigabytes of data on the drive, and they found nearly 22,000 emails carrying cryptographic signatures that could be verified using technology that would be difficult for even the most sophisticated

hackers to fake. The vast majority of the data — and most of the nearly 129,000 emails it contained — could not be verified, the security experts said.

Hunter Biden has said he is unsure if the laptop is his and he does not remember dropping it off, but he has conceded that his memory at the height of his drug addiction was not reliable. His allies also suggest that materials later made public may

be a mix of materials obtained in various ways.

During the same period, Biden also left a laptop with Keith Ablow, a Massachusetts-based psychiatrist who has been close to Republican activist Roger Stone. That laptop was seized by agents who raided Ablow’s office in February 2020, and it was

eventually returned to Hunter Biden.

Kevin Morris, one of Hunter Biden’s friends and associates, has been overseeing a forensic analysis of that laptop to determine if it was the basis of the hard drives that were later distributed by Trump allies.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers also claim that he has been defamed by Fox News, in a story that Carlson aired in which he falsely said that Hunter Biden had paid $50,000 in “rent” to his father, a scheme that he suggested was being used to funnel

money from father to son.

But the reality, as deconstructed by The Washington Post Fact Checker, showed that Hunter Biden was actually paying $49,910 every three months for office space in Washington.

Some other outlets, including The Daily Caller, later updated and retracted their stories.

“We demand that you immediately retract these statements by spending a significant of amount of air-time on such retraction,” Sullivan wrote in the letter to Carlson and a Fox News attorney.

He demanded apologies from Carlson and other commentators — including Fox’s Sean Hannity — who have made similar claims, and requested Fox News to respond in writing by Thursday.

“If we do not receive this written confirmation, we will assume that you both are not interested in acting responsibly and professionally and willing to reverse its actual malice reporting,” Sullivan wrote.

Citing the potential for litigation, Sullivan also demanded that Fox News preserve all communications and documents related to the story.

In one twist of irony, Carlson and Biden have a long history and a one-time friendship. The Post wrote last year about how their families were friends, and how Tucker Carlson and his wife asked for Biden’s help in getting their son into

Georgetown.

Carlson, during a phone interview for that article, said that he was once close with Biden, as he has stated on his show.

“Hunter Biden was my neighbor. Our wives were friends. I knew him well. I talked to him many times about addiction, something I know a lot about,” Carlson said. “And I’ve said that. I think that Hunter Biden is an addict and that’s why

his life is falling apart, and I feel bad for him. I’ve said that many times, and I mean it.”

_________________________

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time

.

For America's sake I hope Hunter Biden goes to prison

JFC! Can't this fucking idiot even read? I don’t expect him to answer because obviously he CAN’T read.

Go to prison for WHAT? The fucking idiot GQP has been investigating him for TWO FUCKING YEARS and, just like Benghazi, still has NOTHING. Your fucking House leader (Joe?) McCarthy didn’t get his first leadership because he was so stupid he actually
admitted ON TV that the Benghazi investigation was dragging on SPECIFICITY to keep Hillary Clinton in the news.

And now Hunter finally got fed up with being told, “Just wait, these GQP fool have nothing and will find nothing and they will go away.” But Hunter got a new lawyer, and now FOX received their notice:

“Tucker Carlson WILL go in the air and apologize for the same length of time he lied and slandered Hunter Biden, or we will file suit for slander.” Just like Dominion Voting machines did for $1.5 BILLION.

The lawyer has also petitioned the Justice Department to look into FOX, Rudy Giuliani and that convicted asshole that wears three shirts at a time, Steve Bannon and the asshole that had the laptop to work on, for dealing in stolen, private, property,
taken off the laptop.

LOL! Because McCarthy’s Kangaroo Kourt was to start another investigation next week. WHA! HA~Ha!

And Moron Mick thinks HUNTER’S going to jail? LOL!

Joe is Impeached and they open a full investigation of the whole crooked Biden clan.

See what I mean? This fucking idiot doesn’t even KNOW there’s been a 2-year, worthless, investigation going on.

Any loss for the Biden's

Heh, THAT ALREADY WON THE WHITE HOUSE… (This fucking idiot STILL thinks Trump won.. LOL)

Stupid Irish Mick

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On Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 5:22:58 PM UTC-8, VegasJerry wrote:

On Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 11:45:15 AM UTC-8, Irish Mike RAN:

Where the fuck is your reply, you running coward?

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