Hunter Biden’s lawyers ask the US Department of Justice to investigate Trump’s entourage
US President’s son Hunter Biden is calling for an investigation into those he accuses of trading in stolen materials from his laptop. Among them are an associate of Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudolph Giuliani.
It is reported by the Air Force.
On Wednesday, lawyers for Biden Jr. filed a petition with the Justice Department for an investigation that names computer repair shop owner John Paul McIsaac, Giuliani and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon among those they believe violated the law. Hunter also threatened to sue Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson for defamation. The lawyers also sent letters to the Delaware Attorney General and the Internal Revenue Service.
Lawyers said they believe various Delaware laws were violated “in accessing, copying, manipulating and/or distributing Biden’s personal computer data.”
In response to the actions of Hunter Biden’s lawyers, Isaac’s lawyer said that the only thing he sees is “a privileged person hiring an expensive lawyer to divert attention from his own illegal actions.”
A lawyer for Giuliani and Bannon said the letters from Biden’s lawyers are “an unsubstantiated complaint aimed at intimidation.”
A request for an investigation does not mean that the authorities will start an investigation. But the move marks Biden Jr.’s “rare public response” to the accusations against him.
The existence of the laptop was first reported by the New York Post less than a month before the 2020 presidential election. Presumably, Hunter left it at the repair shop and never picked it up. According to the newspaper, emails found on the hard drive show that Hunter influenced US foreign policy when his father was vice president. Also from the materials of the laptop reveals a very unpleasant moral character of Hunter.
Isaac claims the laptop was left at his place for repairs in April 2019 and Hunter Biden never came back to pick it up. He said he went through the laptop’s files, waited 90 days – the amount of time that must pass before something can be considered abandoned property – and turned the laptop over to the FBI and a copy of the contents to Giuliani, who later turned it over to the New York Post.
Trump said the materials were evidence of corruption.
