Posted on 03/17/2023 8:49:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden’s son on March 17 sued a laptop repairman for allegedly invading his privacy.
Hunter Biden countersued John Paul Mac Isaac, who owned a computer store in Delaware at which Hunter Biden was said to have dropped off his computer years ago.
Mac Isaac’s sharing of information from Hunter Biden constitutes invasion of privacy, the 42-page filing states.
“No matter how they came into his initial possession, Mac Isaac improperly accessed files that he admits were ‘none of [his] business’ even though he was never given permission by Mr. Biden to access or review any data of Mr. Biden’s,” it says. He later made copies of the data and distributed the copies to others, including former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
“Mac Isaac’s knowing and intentional distribution of Mr. Biden’s personal and sensitive data was not carried out for any reasonable or legitimate purposes, but rather to try and expose Mr. Biden’s data to those that he knew or should have known would intend to create embarrassment and harm for Mr. Biden,” the countersuit says.
“In addition, Mac Isaac decided to use the data in his possession for commercial purposes and to make money, which he has done by including portions of the data in his book and making reference to and/or making some or all of the data available at appearances he has made.”
The filing, lodged in U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, asks for a jury trial.
Mac Isaac’s lawyer did not respond to requests for comment.
Original Suit
Mac Isaac in 2022 sued Hunter Biden, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and news outlets for alleged defamation.
Mac Isaac said he was defamed by statements about himself and how he handled a computer he says was dropped off by Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden committed defamation, according to the suit, when he said in a televised interview: “There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was the—that it was Russian intelligence. It could be that it was stolen from me. Or that there was a laptop stolen from me.”
The filing includes an email from Hunter Biden’s attorney George Mesires to Mac Isaac’s repair shop. “Thank you for speaking with me tonight. As I indicated, I am a lawyer for Hunter Biden and I appreciate you reviewing your records on this matter,” Mesires wrote.
“Hunter knew it was his laptop,” the suit states.
Mac Isaac dropped the Daily Beast from the case after it apologized to him and corrected some of the claims it had made.
Hunter Biden Response
Hunter Biden admitted Mesires was his lawyer. He said in the new filing he was “without knowledge sufficient to admit or deny the allegations” that he knew the computer was his, but denied knowingly offering defamatory information.
According to a document Mac Isaac has filed in court, Hunter Biden on April 12, 2019, asked for a quote for data recovery from three MacBook computers. Mac Isaac recovered the data and notified Hunter Biden of the development. He also sent an invoice. But Hunter Biden “never returned” to the shop to retrieve the data nor did he pay the invoice, according to the suit.
Hunter Biden’s attorneys confirm that Mac Isaac has come into possession of materials from Hunter Biden.
“This is not an admission by Mr. Biden that Mac Isaac (or others) in fact possessed any particular laptop containing electronically stored data belonging to Mr. Biden. Rather, Mr. Biden simply acknowledges that at some point, Mac Isaac obtained electronically stored data, some of which belonged to Mr. Biden,” the new countersuit states.
They noted that Mac Isaac initially said he didn’t get a clear look at the person who dropped off the computer but later claimed he was “100 percent sure” it was Hunter Biden.
Very well put, RL. Exactly right.
They show contempt and disdain for ordinary people all the time. Just look at their horrendous response to the disaster in East Palestine, OH. They HATE people in fly-over country who do all the hard work of keeping the nation going.
Maybe a Nationwide Strike of Normals will send the messge.
Imagine going after a dry cleaner who finds money or jewelry in a pocket of a coat that was unclaimed after 90 days.
A judge will have to be very careful about finding a Democrat exception to a contractual practice that has been common forever.
-PJ
Well, he tried the firm, Cracke, Ho & Selphy, but that didn’t work out so well.
I really don’t know how Hunter can claim invasion of privacy when much of the salacious stuff was in his book” Beautiful Things”?
We need to raise many to help MAC legal expenses.
Words are one thing.
Pictures are another..................
The destruction is the point.
“A judge will have to be very careful about finding a Democrat exception to a contractual practice that has been common forever.”
This lawsuit may prevent evidence from the laptop being used against either Biden until it is determined that it was legally obtained.
Any lawyer will tell the defendant in a suit like that to file a counterclaim just to have something on the table that can be used to negotiate a settlement.
A client of mine was once involved in a lawsuit as the plaintiff, and the defendant filed a counterclaim with about 100 alleged statements of fact. My client’s response to the counterclaim was basically comprised of three answers:
1. For about 25% of the alleged facts, the response was: “The Plaintiff denies this.”
2. For another 25% of the alleged facts, the response was: “The Plaintiff acknowledges this to be true, but the statement is not an allegation of any actionable wrongdoing.”
3. For the remaining 50% of the alleged facts, the response was: “The Plaintiff does not have sufficient knowledge to affirm or deny the truth of this statement.”
In other words, the counterclaim was a pile of nonsense.
#26 That is not a signature but a scrawl and that is being kind.
Hunter even has his own theme song, “A Boy Named Sue” or was it “Screw” (as in America)?
I find this suit very peculiar because the contents are already widely available (what a tome! LOFL!).
You could, at this point, put Hunter on the stand and attempt to break him:
"You wanted to be caught, didn't you! You had no intention of returning for these laptops because you had reached your breaking point, isn't that true, MR. BIDEN! You were tired of being an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill!"
And then issue a subpoena for The White Hospice and simply go out on the courthouse steps and demand: "IF Joe Biden wasn't a complete coward, he would appear here and testify to save his son."
agreed.
worked early cable box contrract repair place, had same thing, and oh boy, did the little cable companies grunt when the lien was presented!!
More lawfare from criminal democrats.
Hunter’s lawsuit will fail and his lawyers know this. The real purpose is to cause financial harm to the computer repair man via lawyer fees defending himself and intimidate anyone who goes against the Biden criminal organized crime family. If ever a family was worthy of prosecution under the RICO act it is the Bidens.
Yeah,pedo, go after this poor guy and ruin his life more than you already have. Go slide down a sewer and become rat food.
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