OAN Staff Abril Elfi
11:31 AM – Wednesday, October 2, 2024
A superior court judge has dismissed a defamation case from the computer repairman who first got hold of Hunter Biden’s controversial laptop after the first son left it at his shop for more than 90 days.
John Paul Mac Isaac, the Wilmington computer shop owner, argued that he had been defamed by Hunter Biden’s statements, news reports, and Joe Biden’s administration over claims related to Hunter’s laptop being stolen, as well as false rumors that the notorious computer’s existence was a Russian disinformation plot.
Meanwhile, Hunter’s attorneys had argued that he had never explicitly mentioned Mac Isaac by name.
Superior court Judge Robert Robinson Jr. dismissed the case, siding with Hunter’s legal team. Ronald Poliquin, Mac Isaac’s attorney, told the Associated Press (AP) they will be filing an appeal.
“Hunter Biden went on national TV and gaslighted the American public by indicating John Paul Mac Isaac was part of a Russian hoax when he knew it to be false,” Poliquin told the AP. “As the FBI has confirmed, Biden dropped off his laptop at the Mac Shop. Hunter Biden lied and needs to be held accountable.”
The controversial laptop became public in October 2020, after The New York Post published emails containing information about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine, where his father led the Obama administration’s foreign policy efforts.
In response, 51 former intelligence officials issued a public statement claiming that the laptop story had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” which turned out to be false.
Robinson also dismissed Hunter’s claims that Mac Isaac invaded his privacy.
In 2022, Mac Isaac published a book called “American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth,” describing his experiences with the presidential family.
“My life changed forever on April 12, 2019, when Hunter Biden stumbled into my shop requesting data recovery from one of his liquid-damaged laptops. After his father announced his candidacy for president of the United States, and Hunter failed to pay for and collect his computer, fear for my safety grew. There was paperwork in Hunter’s possession giving me permission to examine and copy his data—someone was going to come looking for the laptop, and come looking for me. Concerned that I was sitting on evidence in a criminal investigation, I set out to hand everything over to the FBI. But, feeling betrayed by the FBI’s inaction in providing the laptop as evidence during the impeachment trial, I then turned to Congress, and ultimately, to a lawyer for the president, Rudy Giuliani. When the story broke, Big Tech and social and mainstream media blocked the reporting. I was instantly labeled as a hacker and a criminal. My actions were labeled Russian disinformation, and it didn’t take long before people started attacking my business and my character, forcing me to close my shop and flee the state,” the book’s description reads.
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