Justice Department Confirms Authenticity of Hunter Biden Laptop, Says It Matches iCloud Data

theepochtimes ^ | 1/18/2024 | Tom Ozimek

[bitt]

New court filings confirm the authenticity of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden that was left behind at a computer shop and obtained by federal investigators.

Federal prosecutors have confirmed in a new court filing the authenticity of the infamous Hunter Biden laptop and that when investigators took possession of the device and searched it, they found its contents largely overlapped with records obtained from President Joe Biden’s son’s Apple iCloud account.

The new filing comes in Hunter Biden’s gun case in a federal court in Delaware, in which the president’s son faces three felonies in connection with allegations he made false statements to a gun dealer and possessed a firearm while being addicted to drugs. Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty and is trying to get the gun charges thrown out, arguing that the case is a politically-driven “vindictive prosecution” and that special counsel David Weiss filed the charges due to Republican pressure.

Mr. Weiss’s team of prosecutors rejected Hunter Biden’s claim in the Jan. 16 filing, calling it a “conspiracy theory” that is unsupported by evidence.

“Stripped of its bluster, the defendant’s theory of vindictiveness is simply not credible,” prosecutors wrote in the filing. “Left with the inconvenient truth of trying to explain how this could happen during the Biden Administration, the defendant suggests that evil motives are lurking deep within the Department of Justice.”

“This theory is a fiction designed for a Hollywood script,” the prosecutors added.

But beyond the substance of the filing—namely rebutting the president’s son’s claims of a vindictive prosecution—the document also reveals new details surrounding the infamous Hunter Biden laptop that was at the heart of a censorship-by-proxy scandal ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

[Sirius Lee]

Every one of those 51 spooks has the “hallmarks” of being ped O’s. Fedopedos.

[Pete Dovgan]

Wait…..
They had someone on salary round up people (old FBI and CIA)and said it was Russian disinformation. They just had to confirm it on I cloud when they got it in before 2019 and couldn’t do that?

Naw, the government didn’t help rig an election…Lol

[Fester Chugabrew]

Conspiracy theorists! I bet they get all their information from Breitbart.

[SMARTY]

Any apologies forthcoming now??

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It took DOJ FIVE YEARS to discover that Hunter had an iCloud account and the laptop was backing up to that iCloud account?

I tell you, NOTHING gets past these feds.

But why aren’t they continuing the original story plot line…

Those crafty Russians created the iCloud account under Hunter’s name and had the fake Russian laptop back up to it.

Wouldn’t that be more likely and consistent with a thorough and professional Russian disinformation campaign? How does an iCloud account that matches the laptop confirm it was Hunter’s laptop? That is illogical.

[John Milner]

If only they could have pulled an investigator off of those suburban moms attending PTA meetings, and looked at this sooner.

Well, you have to work your priorities, amirite?

[CommerceComet]

Really? You just determined that? Please, DOJ, try to keep up with the rest of us?

Of course, playing clueless is helpful to them. Without making this determination, the DOJ can justify inaction while the statutes of limitations runs out.