Further, where in the hell were you when all of big tech suppressed the laptop story that was 100% true?
#14 | Posted by BellRinger

The laptop was a Russian op:

Denver Riggleman - Former VA Rep, Former USAF/NSA Intel
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Jay
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So this whole Hunters laptop stuff was a Russian op?

Mighty Hams
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Parnas said in an interview after the doc that a Russian intelligence asset pretended to be Biden's friend and took him to Kazakhstan, which is where the Russians got his laptop. The laptop itself may be real, but the stuff that was added to it by Russia is the op.

"#24. It was used as evidence in a criminal trial against Hunter Biden."

It was introduced as evidence, but despite that fact, the FBI never properly validated the material on the laptop:

I was suspicious, too, because Hines' claim that evidence obtained from the laptop was "largely duplicative" admits that it was not entirely duplicative. His choice of language made it clear there were things on the laptop that were not in the iCloud.

And he did so in a paragraph that tried to obscure how the provenance of the laptop affects the provenance of his other evidence. . .

Over 1,500 days after receiving the laptop, the FBI has not done the things it would need to do to validate the laptop. They don't have an index of what they have and they don't know how all the embedded back-ups relate to one another. Without that, they cannot make representations that the laptop was not tampered with. Indeed, they're making laughably false claims about what they have found uniquely on the laptop, a testament that they don't have the most basic understanding about the laptop...

Since Derek Hines made dubious claims on January 16 that the laptop was "largely duplicative" of material found in Hunter Biden's iCloud, we've since learned one reason he was so squirrelly when he made that claim: his most important evidence for the gun crime doesn't appear to be duplicated in Hunter's iCloud And unless the FBI conducted an unlawful search of Hunter's digital evidence--or unless they indicted based on what they had seen in Murdoch publications--they did not learn that until months after they charged the President's son. And they didn't learn that because four years after obtaining the laptop, the FBI has still never taken basic steps to understand what is on it.

PS Furthermore, Hunter Biden never agreed that the data on the laptop was his:

More importantly, Hines blatantly misstates Hunter Biden's view on the authenticity of the data on the laptop. In Abbe Lowell's response to Hines' motion to bypass any expert witness, he specifically debunked that claim.

Defense counsel has numerous reasons to believe the data had been altered and compromised before investigators obtained the electronic material from Apple Inc. and The Mac Shop, such that the Special Counsel's claim that the underlying data is "authentic" (id. at 4) and accurately reflects "defendant's Apple Macbook Pro and [] hard drive" (id. at 2) is mistaken.

Mr. Biden's counsel told the Special Counsel on May 10, 2024 it agrees not to challenge the authenticity of the electronic data the Special Counsel intends to use with respect to it being what law enforcement received on December 9, 2019 from John Paul Mac Isaac (owner of The Mac Shop), and from Apple on August 29, 2019 and in a follow-up search on July 10, 2020. (Mot. at n.3.) However, Mr. Biden cannot agree this electronic data is "authentic" as to being his data as he used and stored it prior to Mac Issac obtaining it.

He pointedly did not agree that the data derived from the laptop (and hard drive, which I suspect has more irregularities) was "authentic" as to being his own data.

IOW, what Parnas said about the laptop being a Russian op could very well be true:

Parnas said in an interview after the doc that a Russian intelligence asset pretended to be Biden's friend and took him to Kazakhstan, which is where the Russians got his laptop. The laptop itself may be real, but the stuff that was added to it by Russia is the op.

Oh, yeah, I forgot to include this additional paragraph above:

He pointedly did not agree that the data derived from the laptop (and hard drive, which I suspect has more irregularities) was "authentic" as to being his own data.

One reason I'm interested in the hard drive is because Hines himself revealed that the "backup" of it is 62% bigger than the laptop of which it purports to be a copy. Understanding why that is so might go a long way to explain anything John Paul Mac Isaac did with Hunter Biden's data.