“This guy AND Giuliani said the CCP had the hard drives. I’m not buying this computer store narrative.”
When I heard “3 hard drives”, a bell went off. 3 HDD in a laptop? Highly unusual.
I think we may have multiple things habbening here in a confluence of events, or in a release-timing issue.
Biden dropped off 3 laptops, 2 Mac PowerBooks and one other poor thing.
As a general rule, before any tech starts working on a computer (or portable hard drive) the first thing they do is make a copy of the entire hard drive. Just in case.
FWIF, somewhere I heard a reference to the fact that the computer repair shop received a laptop and external hard drive(s) when it was first brought in for repair.