White House doesn’t ‘have anything to add’ on Hunter Biden’s push for laptop investigation
Katherine Doyle
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The White House declined to comment on requests from Hunter Biden’s legal team urging state and federal agencies to open criminal investigations into a former computer repair shop owner and political operatives who disseminated “Mr. Biden’s personal computer data.”
The requests to the Justice Department, Delaware attorney general, and others were made in a series of letters Wednesday from high-powered attorney Abbe Lowell of the firm Winston and Strawn. Lowell is coordinating Hunter Biden’s response to the laptop case.
Biden’s press secretary referred a question about whether the push complicates Biden’s calls for judicial independence at the agency to Hunter Biden’s representative.
Asked whether the White House was given advance notice, Karine Jean-Pierre demurred, referring the question to the White House counsel’s office.
“I don’t have anything to add,” Jean-Pierre said.
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The allegations from Hunter Biden’s attorney mark the first time President Joe Biden’s son and his team have acknowledged that data belonging to him were shared publicly after purporting to be found on a laptop abandoned at a repair shop.
“There is considerable reason to believe violated various federal laws in accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating Mr. Biden’s personal computer data,” Lowell wrote in a letter to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, stating that the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop were “unlawfully” accessed.
“This failed dirty political trick directly resulted in the exposure, exploitation, and manipulation of Mr. Biden’s private and personal information,” Lowell added.
In a statement, Lowell said the letters do not affirm the authenticity of the materials found on the laptop.
“These letters do not confirm Mac Isaac’s or others’ versions of a so-called laptop,” Lowell said in a statement shared with the Washington Examiner. “They address their conduct of seeking, manipulating, and disseminating what they allege to be Mr. Biden’s personal data, wherever they claim to have gotten it.”
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In 2021, Hunter Biden conceded in an interview with CBS News that the laptop “certainly … could be” his.
Biden and his aides have long disputed the authenticity of the materials, with the president at times calling the trove “a smear campaign” and “a bunch of garbage.”
Hunter Biden may soon be charged in a federal investigation in connection with his late tax filings and other business dealings.