A high-ranking government official who has been asked by Hunter Biden to launch an investigation in connection to his abandoned laptop has long-standing ties to President Joe Biden and his family, records show.
The younger Biden's lawyers sent letters on Wednesday to several parties, including Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings and U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew G. Olsen, requesting them to investigate those who disseminated contents on the laptop. Jennings, in particular, is a Biden ally who could be forced to recuse herself from any cases involving Hunter Biden due to her Biden family connections, one watchdog group told the Washington Examiner.
This request also extended to John Paul Mac Issac, the ex-computer shop repair owner for the Delaware location where Biden left his laptop and hard drive in late 2019. Mac Issac tried to contact Biden for months about the laptop. He then contacted the FBI to pick it up and later provided a copy to Giuliani's personal attorney, Robert Costello.
"Joe is one of the kindest and most genuine people I’ve ever known," she wrote."I have seen him suffer incredible tragedy — the loss of his first wife, his daughter, and most recently his oldest son and my former boss, the late Attorney General Beau Biden — and I have seen him channel his grief into grace, empathy, and an unfailing talent for finding the good in everybody."
Mackler was also the campaign manager for Beau Biden's 2010 attorney general campaign and, between 2007 and 2008, was the press secretary for Joe Biden's Senate office. He has exchanged emails over the years with Hunter Biden and his business partners, according to records on the laptop.Jennings, like Mackler, also worked closely with Beau Biden, who died of cancer in 2015.
Hunter Biden's legal requests mark the first time he has, evidently, acknowledged that the abandoned laptop belongs to him. However, his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, has claimed the letters"do not confirm Mac Isaac's or others' versions of a so-called laptop."
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