Hunter Biden’s laptop was not tampered with, FBI agent witness Erica Jensen testified to jurors in Hunter’s gun trial on Wednesday.
The testimony refutes long-standing claims by Hunter’s associates that the data on the laptop was “hacked” or “manipulated.”
Denver Riggleman, Hunter’s forensic expert, argued during a 2023 appearance on CNN that the data in the “public domain” of the “Laptop from Hell” has “nothing to do” with the laptop. In other words, the president’s son’s legal team seems to be arguing that the laptop, or at least parts of it, aren’t real.
“No.” Jensen Reply According to a court reporter, when the prosecution followed up by asking whether he had seen any evidence that the data on the laptop had been tampered with, the defendant replied:
The data obtained from Hunter’s iCloud account was provided by Apple via a search warrant.
Hunter’s lawyer, Abe Lowell, Weakening During cross-examination, he questioned the authenticity of the laptop: “Did you know if the files had been tampered with?” he asked Jensen.
“I haven’t,” she replied.
On Tuesday, Jensen confirmed that Hunter’s infamous laptop is genuine.
The Justice Department determined that Hunter had left the laptop at a computer store and confirmed it belonged to him because its contents matched those authorities obtained through a search warrant for Hunter’s iCloud, Breitbart News reported in January.
Emma Jo Morris, formerly of Breitbart News New York Postfirst reported the “Laptop from Hell” story in October 2020.
Shortly thereafter New York Post When breaking the laptop news in 2020, CNN reporter Natasha Bertrand wrote an infamous, and now discredited, piece. Politico The article used “dozens of former intelligence officials” to spread a false and misleading narrative about the origins of Hunter’s laptop.
CNN also finally acknowledged that Hunter’s “Laptop from Hell” story was real, more than 500 days after it was first reported on October 24, 2020, notably calling it “Russian disinformation” and a “hoax” at the time.
President Joe Biden and his press secretary also made inaccurate statements about the laptop’s origins.
- Joe Biden“Overwhelming evidence from intelligence agencies” suggested it was Russian disinformation.
- Joe BidenHunter’s laptop was a literal “smear campaign” and a “pile of rubbish”.
- Jen Psaki: The laptop was part of a “widespread Russian disinformation campaign.”
This incident United States v. Hunter Biden, Case No. 24-1703 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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Wendell Fsebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former Republican War Room analyst. The Politics of Slave MoralityFollow Wendell “Bat” @WendellHusebø or The truth of society @WendellHusebo.
