'Lawyer up, and get out': FBI first spurned Hunter Biden laptop, says Delaware tech repairman

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FBI "didn't show an interest in any of the money" after seizing Hunter Biden's laptop, according to John Paul Mac Isaac, the computer shop owner who reported it to authorities.

John Paul Mac Isaac, the Delaware computer shop owner who unwittingly came into possession of Hunter Biden's laptop, says an FBI agent initially gave a stern warning to his family when first offered a copy of the explosive evidence about Joe Biden's son: "You better lawyer up and get out of my office."

In a wide-ranging interview Monday with Just the News, Isaac described what concerned him most about the contents on the laptop, his extensive efforts to get authorities in law enforcement and Congress to pay attention to it and his anger at the news media, Democrats and even security officials who initially accused him of carrying out a Russian disinformation campaign or trying to make money off the discovery.

U.S. intelligence has determined the laptop contents — now in the hands of the FBI and Congress and part of a criminal tax case — were not Russian disinformation. Isaac said he never took a dime for providing the materials to the FBI, Congress and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, not even when offered reimbursement for the hard drive equipment he used to make copies.

"Well, for somebody who's not very political, I assume what happened to me was the quintessential political hit job, to have that many people come out, without even talking to me, or having a conversation without doing a single background check," he told the John Solomon Reports podcast.

"I still feel a little bit upset about that," he added. "I have people that I've known for a long time, they're convinced that I'm a tool, or I've been a pawn or I got huge payout. And it's completely decimated my business. I had to leave town."


Isaac said the efforts "tagging me to Russia" were insulting, given that his father and grandfathers served in the military dating to World War II. He said he believed the attacks were just an outgrowth of the false Russia collusion story used to vilify President Trump at the start of his presidency.

"I get why they [critics] did it," he said. "It's topical. Everybody's scared of Russia, Russia, Russia. And why not, you know, if it worked four or six years ago, try it again."

Isaac said one of his biggest disappointments was the FBI's behavior when his family offered the contents of the hard drive to agents.

Isaac said a man identifying himself as Hunter Biden dropped off the laptop and other water-damaged computer equipment in early spring 2019 and failed to pick it up, even after signing a document declaring it would become his shop's property in 90 days.

After the 90 days passed, Isaac said he examined the laptop contents and was troubled by what he found: explicit sex photos and evidence of large, suspicious foreign transactions involving the Biden family and Ukraine, China and Russia. He said he asked his father, an Air Force veteran, for advice in summer 2019, and his father went to the FBI in Albuquerque, N.M., in September 2019 with a copy of the laptop contents.

Isaac, who is visually impaired, said he had no doubts the laptop belonged to Hunter Biden after inspecting its contents.

"I have no doubt in my mind," he said. "Probably about within 30 minutes of performing the data transfer, I had been able to verify that the person that was in the shop was indeed the person that was on the computer and the owner of the computer."

Asked what prompted him to approach the FBI, Isaac said he was concerned by the emails and other records on the laptop showing complex financial transactions with foreigners, especially with Ukraine and the Burisma Holdings gas company that was in the impeachment headlines in summer and fall 2019.

"Obviously by that time during the summer, Ukraine was in the conversation," he explained. "So I had remembered seeing some things. And there was obviously the personal data. That was a concern, but also the Ukraine stuff, some of these players that were involved, and then the amount of money that was involved. That started to throw up red flags, because people do horrible things over money."

He said he was stunned by the FBI's reaction to his father when first offered the laptop contents in September 2019.

"He had the copy of the drive as well as the copy of the signed authorization," Isaac said of his father. "So that if there was a legal question on how this was obtained, here's a document that proves it. And the FBI agent that he spoke to refused to give his name and then said you better lawyer up and get out of my office."

Isaac said a month or so later, an FBI agent from Delaware who specialized in child exploitation crimes approached him, eventually seizing the laptop with a grand jury subpoena. But even then, Isaac said, the FBI seemed disinterested in the laptop contents.

"They really didn't show an interest in any of the money," he said. "They were more interested in why I was afraid, and not necessarily what was on the on the drive."

"We sat down," Isaac continued, "and the first thing they asked me was if I had seen any child pornography, and you know, I'm not wanting to look at another man's porn. So I generally wasn't, it wasn't what I was looking for. When I sat down to look for stuff, I really focused in on Ukraine. What I casually saw when I was doing the data transfer, sure, there was porn."

"Then they asked why I was concerned," he added. "So they never brought up money laundering at all, which that seems kind of odd. But they wanted to hear my concerns. I explained to them that there's powers foreign and domestic that are involved. There's a lot of money involved. Somebody, someday is going to look for this."

Hunter Biden has long denied wrongdoing but recently acknowledged he has been informed by the U.S. attorney in Delaware that he is under criminal investigation for his "tax affairs." Federal officials have declined comment, except to acknowledge the probe began in 2018.

Isaac said he has since closed down his shop in Delaware and is now taking woodworking classes for a possible change in careers. Though he acknowledged coming from a conservative family, he said the reason he is speaking out now isn't politics, but rather to dispel the censorship, cancel culture and false allegations waged against him.

"If I can shine a light on the bias of the media and the bias of social media ... then that's great," he said. "I think that's gone on long enough. But mainly get the truth out."

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
Have you seen or heard of any GOP-majority state Legislatures moving to correct the problem? They, and the Republican Governor, sure didn't do diddly in the time they had before the Georgia runoff...No point playing in a rigged game when it's rigged against you and you know it.

Sure. But have you ever heard of a GOP-majority state legislature where GOP state legislators couldn't be primaried and replaced with other GOP state legislators? What has been rigged can be brought out into the sunlight and un-rigged, and I think that's exactly what the "Office of the Former President" is all about.

If you simply accept that the entire game is rigged - even if several aspects of the game are not rigged and the rigging can eventually be undone - then you've basically surrendered to the Fulton County Elections Office rather than to a genuinely overwhelming or intractable opponent operating at the national level. In effect, you've surrendered and run because some junior enlisted guy yelled "I fart in your general direction!" rather than for any real and substantive reason.

If you insist that "voting is meaningless" then you've surrendered, you're letting the Dems live rent-free in your head, and you're actually doing the work for them that they cannot possibly do for themselves and cannot possibly force you to do for them.

If our only path is through the Republican party, then the game is over. Very confusing how all of America knows exactly how the election was stolen, but the Republican party is silent and legitimizes the steal.

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Originally posted by bdylan:
...game is over.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
What has been rigged can be brought out into the sunlight and un-rigged, and I think that's exactly what the "Office of the Former President" is all about.

How are you going to get everyone to tune into OAN or Newsmax? MSM won't shine any kind of light on it. I repeat myself but the media is the real problem.

It's not game over, but the fat lady is in the lobby. It's our job to keep her there.

Non sequitur to recent posts, but I have a question. With the new caravans forming combined with joe's promises. What do we do with 5k people rushing the boarder? Does he build more Obama style cages or just give them a bus ticket to the city of their choosing? If we don't deport, then we need to ramp up holding capacity ASAP. Has he stated how he plans to hold, feed, clothe, and medically take care of 10's of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people? If we let them in and refuse to deport then, we are on the hook for them. Last time around the cages were a bad look.

Continuing to vote as if that’s the solution us a sign of insanity.

You really think that you could vote again and trust the outcome?

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Non sequitur to recent posts, but I have a question. With the new caravans forming combined with joe's promises. What do we do with 5k people rushing the boarder? Does he build more Obama style cages or just give them a bus ticket to the city of their choosing? If we don't deport, then we need to ramp up holding capacity ASAP. Has he stated how he plans to hold, feed, clothe, and medically take care of 10's of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people? If we let them in and refuse to deport then, we are on the hook for them. Last time around the cages were a bad look.

Maybe a non sequitur on your non sequitur. We had a friend a few years ago who got a traffic ticket in Central Valley, CA, had to go to court. She did, paid a fine, done. But while sitting in court, most of those called up by the judge were no-shows, their cases were dismissed. She asked the Bailiff what's up? Well, they are in the country illegally, we have no way to find them, no way to identify them, they do everything on a cash basis so there is no financial way to trace them. It's not worth the time/effort to pursue a traffic case.

For illegals coming into CA, all they have to do is show a piece of mail with a name and address, they get a drivers license and are registered to vote. And yes, CA and US taxpayers are on the hook.

Never forget who the leader of the free world really is.

I hope this is an appropriate place to post this.

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

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Originally posted by HRK:

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He, at no prompting, told me of how his wife came across his voter registration card the other day and he said, "throw it away, I don't need it anymore." They also saw on their own that the election process is now completely corrupted.

Until we fix this critical problem, there is no way to elect anyone to oppose this communist insurgency.

Why do people say this, it's utter nonsense.

While the sentiment is understandable, it's an entirely wrong thing to do.

We NEED to continue to vote, letting the left, progressives, TV/Media, Hollyweird, and their ilk continue to win is all that does.

The real solution is to get into the trenches and vote out the McConnells, Grahams, and others and replace them with women and men along the lines of Cruz.

Closing the blinds, turning your head and walking away doesn't solve jack shit.

As has been said for many years, R party's motto should be "Grabbing defeat from the Jaws of Victory!"

WOW, you missed the point by county mile!

The whole process is now completely corrupted.

How are you going to vote someone out, when they control the vote counting???

What just happened in November?

We all need to work locally to fix this, the states run the elections (for now, look at HR1) we need to ensure our state legislative bodies fix this shit.

The was a major win this week in Virginia
https://dailycaller.com/2021/0...tmark-illegal-court/

Something similar happened in Texas recently

We need to do this in all of the state that we control...which is 32 I think.

If you are not emailing / calling / visiting your state reps you are wrong. This is the only real power we left.

Hell, the Texas Gov has said that "maybe Texas should be a 2nd Amendment sanctuary state"...I think OK is on this track as well.

We must learn from the progs

RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

For years we (the royal we ) have let the federal gov take power they do not constitutionally have

"The Tenth Amendment (Amendment X) to the United States Constitution, a part of the Bill of Rights, was ratified on December 15, 1791.[1] It expresses the principle of federalism, also known as states' rights, by stating that the federal government has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution, and that all other powers not forbidden to the states by the Constitution are reserved to each state."


The states started pushing back against the obamazombies and they must continue to push against Xiden....

God Bless Texas!!

<<meekly steps off the soapbox>>

China Joe has (undoubtedly to please his masters in Beijing) banned the terms "China Virus" and "Wuhan Flu" from use within the government in any way:



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obiden has probably written more eos than obama and President Trump combined...in one week.

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Originally posted by az4783054:
obiden has probably written more eos than obama and President Trump combined...in one week.

Trump IIRC signed 4 EO's in his entire first 30 days in office.

Biden has signed 30 in his FIRST 3 DAYS

But Trump is the dictator...

Here we go...

Biden starts staffing a commission on Supreme Court reform

He pushed the idea as a candidate during the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation fight. Now, he’s getting it going.

The Biden administration is moving forward with the creation of a bipartisan commission to study reforms to the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary.

Biden starts staffing a commission on Supreme Court reform


ETA: I'm hoping the blatant partisan overreach will secure the mid terms. But these are unprecedented times.

^^^ Commissions have, historically, been the place in Washington D.C. where policy initiatives go to die. We need to use the delay to get more Republicans with guts (or at least a healthy fear of the voters - what have we been hearing from John "Fistbump" Cornyn lately?) in the US Senate. Again, we're talking about local action affecting elections governed by the states.

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:
How are you going to get everyone to tune into OAN or Newsmax? MSM won't shine any kind of light on it. I repeat myself but the media is the real problem.

I don't know that doing so will be necessary. If state legislatures act, I think the MSM will squawk louder than anyone else can, and demand answers. They can't provide footage of Republican state legislators refusing to answer if those legislators step up to the mic and camera and start answering.

The alternative for the MSM is, of course, to simply say nothing. Can you imagine them letting that pass without saying anything?

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
You really think that you could vote again and trust the outcome?

I think the argument now is over how to be able to trust the outcome and what tools are available that the Dems cannot control or ignore. The alternatives are to go sulk in a corner and do nothing, or start a civil war - which of those would you prefer?

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Originally posted by sigalert:
Here we go...

Biden starts staffing a commission on Supreme Court reform

More like "Biden starts a commission on how to pack the Supreme Court as full and fast as possible"

No. You were sold a bill of goods that the process was corrupted. If it were, at least some of the lawsuits filed would have succeeded.

Fraud didn't make Trump lose the election. Trump made Trump lose the election.

Now I know a lot of people here aren't going to agree. I don't really care. What I DO care about is that a lot of conservatives are going to check out of the electoral process because of Trump's bullshit, which is going to guarantee the liberals are going to stay in power

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Originally posted by ersatzknarf:

WOW, you missed the point by county mile!

The whole process is now completely corrupted.

How are you going to vote someone out, when they control the vote counting???

What just happened in November?