{"id":1427376,"date":"2023-09-14T03:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1427376"},"modified":"2023-09-14T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T07:20:00","slug":"hunter-biden-sues-former-trump-wh-aide-who-published-laptop-contents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/hunter-biden-sues-former-trump-wh-aide-who-published-laptop-contents\/1427376\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden Sues Former Trump WH Aide Who Published Laptop Contents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Hunter Biden Sues Former Trump WH Aide Who Published Laptop Contents<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Hunter Biden is suing a former Trump White House aide for publishing the contents of his infamous &#8216;laptop from hell,&#8217; which contains all sorts of evidence against the Biden family, along with private photos, emails and text messages between the first son and his associates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hunterp%20hone_0.jpg?itok=JFvgEcQ0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the same laptop that <strong>51 former intelligence officials said had &#8220;all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,\u201d <\/strong>and which Antony Blinken (then a top Biden campaign official) had a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/revelation-morell-spurred-blinken-organize-letter-discrediting-hunter-laptop-story\">central role<\/a>&#8216; in discrediting after the <em>New York Post<\/em> reported that Hunter Biden exploited his father&#8217;s position as then-VP foer personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Wednesday night filing, <strong>Hunter Biden&#8217;s legal team is suing Garrett Ziegler, <\/strong>who operates the website <a href=\"https:\/\/marcopolousa.org\/\">Marco Polo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The 13-page lawsuit alleges that Ziegler and others violated federal and California privacy laws<\/strong> by &#8220;accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and damaging computer data&#8221; gathered from Hunter Biden&#8217;s purported laptop and iPhone cloud storage without consent. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The lawsuit details how <strong>Ziegler and unnamed defendants allegedly obtained sensitive materials by hacking into encrypted data on Hunter Biden&#8217;s devices and uploading them to Ziegler&#8217;s website,<\/strong> where it remains public. In the lawsuit, Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers assert that the defendants had refused requests to &#8220;cease their unlawful activity&#8221; and return private data belonging to the president&#8217;s son. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hunter-biden-sues-former-trump-white-house-aide-over-release-of-private-material\/\">CBS News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In response, Ziegler told <em>CBS News<\/em>: &#8220;I nor the nonprofit, <em>Marco<\/em> <em>Polo<\/em>, have been served with a lawsuit \u2014 but the one I read this morning out of the Central District of California should embarrass Winston &amp; Strawn LLP.<strong> It&#8217;s not worth the paper it&#8217;s written on,<\/strong>&#8221; adding &#8220;Apart from the numerous state and federal laws and regulations which protect authors like me and the publishing that Marco Polo does, it&#8217;s not lost on us that Joe&#8217;s son filed this SLAPP one day after a so-called Impeachment Inquiry into his father was announced.<strong> The president&#8217;s son is a disgrace to our great nation.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Hunter Biden sued a Delaware-based computer repairman, John Paul Mac Issac, <strong>with whom Hunter abandoned his now-infamous laptop<\/strong> &#8211; the contents of which have been featured in multiple Congressional hearings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hunter%202aa.jpg?itok=08WktCrV\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year Mac Isaac\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/06\/mac-shop-owner-john-mac-isaac-reveals-night-he-met-hunter-biden\/\">recalled<\/a>\u00a0to the New York Post about how Hunter Biden arrived at his shop in Wilmington, Delaware, in April 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI\u2019m glad you\u2019re still open,\u201d Hunter Biden allegedly told him. \u201cI just came from the cigar bar, and they told me about your shop, but I had to hurry because you close at seven.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI need the data recovered off these, but they all have liquid damage and won\u2019t turn on,\u201d Mac Isaac recalled him saying.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mac Issac maintains that <strong>he obtained the information from Hunter&#8217;s laptop legally<\/strong>, and that Biden himself dropped it off in April 2019, never returning to claim it. <strong>In fact<\/strong>, says he <strong>walked into the <\/strong> <strong>Albuquerque FBI office<\/strong>, where he explained what he had, but was rebuffed by the FBI. <strong>He was told basically, get lost<\/strong>. This was mid-September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Two months passed and then, out of the blue, the FBI contacted John Paul Mac Issac. <strong>Two FBI agents from the Wilmington FBI office\u2013Joshua Williams and Mike Dzielak\u2013came to John Paul\u2019s business<\/strong>. He offered immediately to give them the hard drive, no strings attached. <strong>Agents Williams and Dzielak declined to take the device<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eight months later,<\/strong> Isaac provided a copy to then-President Donald Trump\u2019s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who provided a copy of the hard drive to <em>The Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, several FBI whistleblowers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/fbi-warned-twitter-hack-and-leak-operation-hunter-biden-story-censored\">told<\/a> Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that<strong> agents investigating Hunter Biden &#8220;opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information<\/strong> as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease,&#8221; adding that his office received &#8220;a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers&#8221; regarding the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Grassley added that &#8220;verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation,&#8221; according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/whistleblowers-hunter-biden-wrongly-labeled-disinformation-fbi\"><em>Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 09\/13\/2023 &#8211; 23:20<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/hunter-biden-sues-former-trump-wh-aide-who-published-laptop-contents\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/hunter-biden-sues-former-trump-wh-aide-who-published-laptop-contents<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunter Biden Sues Former Trump WH Aide Who Published Laptop Contents Hunter Biden is suing a former Trump White House aide for publishing the contents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}