Department Of Justice Acknowledges Hunter Biden Laptop Content Is Legitimate For First Time

Daily Caller ^ | January 16, 2024 11:00 PM ET | HAILEY GOMEZ - GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORTER

[Red Badger]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has acknowledged the legitimacy of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop data for the first time in a new court filing.

In a Tuesday court filing from DOJ prosecutors, which came in response to Biden’s request to have his federal firearm charges dismissed, investigators acknowledge the legitimacy of data found on Biden’s laptop prior to the 2020 election. The court filings described how IRS and FBI investigators had obtained a search warrant for tax violations on Biden, leading them to “various” backup data accounts.

The documents additionally note that investigators later came into “possession” of the laptop that Biden had previously “left at a computer store,” emphasizing that investigators had “already obtained” a large portion of the data from Apple.

“In August 2019, IRS and FBI investigators obtained a search warrant for tax violations for the defendant’s Apple iCloud account. In response to that warrant, in September 2019, Apple produced backups of data from various of the defendant’s electronic devices that he had backed up to his iCloud account,” the court documents stated.

“Investigators also later came into possession of the defendant’s Apple MacBook Pro, which he had left at a computer store. A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop and the results of the search were largely duplicative of information investigators had already obtained from Apple.”

Following the initial report on Biden’s laptop from the New York Post, backlash from Democratic officials, various media outlets and social media platforms ensued. Democratic operatives and their allies attempted to cast the findings from the laptop as “Russian disinformation” and alleged that reporting on it was a form of pro-Trump election interference.

A letter was soon released by 51 former intelligence officials who falsely claimed that the content on Biden’s laptop was a “Russian information operation.”

The “Russian disinformation” narrative pushed by officials then led to both Facebook and Twitter censoring the NY Post’s reporting, with sites like Politico claiming the story was false by using the former intel officials’ letter. President Joe Biden called the laptop contents “Russia disinformation” during his 2020 campaign, also using the intelligence officials’ letter as support.

However, while the rumors of Russia interference circled, the FBI reportedly knew that the contents within Biden’s laptop were real due to an interview with Biden’s former business associate, Tony Bobulinski. The agency had previously interviewed Bobulinski on Oct. 23, 2020, after the report broke, in which he confirmed the authenticity of the laptop’s contents, noting that he had additional records on multiple cell phones.

The DOJ and FBI have since shied away from Biden’s laptop contents, with IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley confirming the authenticity of the laptop during testimony to Congress in June 2023, according to the New York Post.

The new filings come as a response to Biden’s investigation for gun charges which his legal team attempted to argue in December should be dismissed. Biden was indicted in September of 2023 on three federal gun charges after he had allegedly illegally purchased a revolver as he was battling a drug addiction.

While Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to the charges in October of 2023, he could potentially face up to 25 years in prison.

[Red Badger]

There are still people on the Left that spread the lie that it was "Russian Disinformation" ................

[ClearCase_guy]

Now explain why the child porn on the laptop is not a big deal.

[ryderann]

I’d like to think that there are some individuals who are having seconds thoughts after Trump’s blow-out win in Iowa.

[tired&retired]

Ouch! That one is going to hurt and leave a mark.

[vetvetdoug]

5 years of dishonest statements by the DOJ, FBI, and the MSM. Yes, and still there are the ones on the left promoting lies about Trump.

[mfish13]

News people, too. Now we find out how the News is pushing the false narrative that the state of Texas kept the Border Patrol from helping those to Mexicans that drowned in the Rio Grande. Not true.

[Feckless]

Too bad we can’t acknowledge the DOJ as legitimate...

[Skwor]

They won’t because if they are admitting it now there is a 99-100% chance they scrubbed anything incriminating off the laptop.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Question - why did the FBI lie and who instructed them to lie?

Want to talk about election interference, the FBI was part of the coverup from the beginning.

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m pretty sure there are copies of the original laptop.

And it would be interesting to compare the laptop of 2020 with the laptop of 2024. Why are they different? Why is this one so clean and that one so dirty?

[Liz]

The 51 intel letter signers' calculated agenda was to "create a talking point" for the beleaguered Biden.
Biden was properly clued in, and was clearly geared to mislead, (after 50 years as a Delaware politician).

Biden latched onto the talking point, and used it at his debate with Trump to mislead American voters about the illegal activities of his crackhead son, activities thoroughly documented by the NY Post's ace reporting of Hunter's salacious laptop.

At the zero hour, Biden flung the invented talking point at an unsuspecting Trump, and effectively saved himself, and his son, from political ruination.

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The shocking election interference of the nation's intel apparat for a favored candidate had precedence when Democrat Obama gave 2016 Democrat candidate Hillary complete access to the nation's 17 intel agencies for her campaign against Trump.

[Liz]

Biden would have done anything to save his “surviving son” Hunter from political ruination......for one simple reason. Biden was preparing his political legacy, and his dead son Beau was being groomed to follow in his footsteps.

(The family Biden is imbued with a misdirected sense of “dynasty”......Kennedy wannabes.)

Beau died, so “surviving son” Hunter was now supposed to carry on the Biden dynasty......but the drugging, whoring Hunter would’t cooperate ......and dumbly left a computer record of his errant self when he abandoned his laptop.

Hunter needed emergency resuscitation, thus the misleading “intel talking point” was invented.

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As Hunter faces tax and gun troubles, Joe can forget about Hunter establishing a dynasty.

[Lurker]

“Now explain why the child porn on the laptop is not a big deal.”

Can’t wait for that spin. Anyone not named Biden would already have been indicted, tried, convicted, and incarcerated.

L

[Dan in Wichita]

There are still people on the Left that spread the lie that it was "Russian Disinformation" ................

My guess is almost every hardcore Democrat still believes it to be true.

[EVO X]

There is option B also. They don’t care..

[BlackbirdSST]

Can’t wait for that spin. Anyone not named Biden would already have been indicted, tried, convicted, and incarcerated.

...and likely would have died in prison by now.

[EVO X]

https://nypost.com/2024/01/16/news/feds-found-cocaine-from-2018-on-hunter-biden-gun-pouch-docs/

[rktman]

Nah. Its been legit EVERY time its been looked at.

[Red Badger]

It was even on a Chinese Porn site.........................or so I’ve been told, by a friend.................