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Masons and mafia are taking over America.

They gotta get their shit right instead of pushing alt right.

Giuliani didn’t end NYC crime… he joined it.

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This is the best summary I could come up with:


He and Costello have said they were provided the hard drive in 2020 by a Delaware computer repair shop owner who claims Hunter Biden dropped off the laptop the year before and never returned to retrieve it.

The lawsuit against Giuliani and Costello claims they used Hunter Biden’s username to gain access to his data, making copies and sharing it with allies such as Steve Bannon.

Last year, Brian Della Rocca, a lawyer for Mac Isaac, provided to CBS News what he called an “exact copy” of laptop data given by his client to federal investigators in 2019.

But some versions of the hard drive circulated later appeared to have had data added after April 2019, a sign they could have been tampered with, according to reports in other media outlets, including The Washington Post.

In February, his attorney, Abbe Lowell, sent letters to 14 prominent Republican media personalities and former officials who had accused Hunter Biden of corruption or disseminated material purporting to be from the laptop.

Giuliani was indicted by a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury on Aug. 15, along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others, and accused of taking part in a “criminal enterprise” while trying to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election results.


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I truly didn’t believe the laptop was his!? I’m confused now. How do you find the truth between 2 crazy people

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Each side presents allegations and defenses publicly after due notice, as adversaries, before a neutral tribunal, and if the facts are genuinely in dispute after reasonable discovery, you put the evidence before a jury of our peers.

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Maybe they want to force them to admit that the laptop was a hoax.

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That would be crazy

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Some of the data on the laptop was likely Hunter’s. Now, whether it originated on that laptop or whether it was added later to “prove it was his” is a different story.

Similarly, the laptop could have been his, but the “let’s do illegal stuff” emails could have been added later (and backdated) in an attempt to “prove” that he did illegal things and that Joe Biden did as well.

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The truth is likely that the laptop wasn’t real, but some of the data was. It’s easy to grab some personal data from someone (say, via their actual computer after it’s been hacked) and then load it onto another laptop. Then you claim that this laptop was the actual source of the data and that it being abandoned gave you the right to look through it. (It doesn’t.)

The must insidious part of this is that you could mix fake data alongside the real data. Got Hunter Biden nudes from your hacking? Toss them in an “email” that he was sending and then write up another email which “proves” that Joe Biden sold his position for personal profit. The nudes email can seem legit enough that it raises the believability of your “smoking gun” email.

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this is quite the conspiracy theory

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This is great, and I honestly hope he prevails, but . . .

The suit that I personally REALLY want to see, but never will because Congress is protected, is Hunter Biden suing the ever lovin’ fuck out of that human toilet brush MTG for making his blown-up-to-poster-size and displayed nudes part of a Congressional inquiry.

If this is all he can legally do, it’s all he can legally do. But that **** should have been ridden out of office for that, and by members of her own party. That she is still there is a reproach to the office itself.

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Who would ever take their computer to John Paul Mac Isaac’s repair shop after this? The shop had no business looking at the owners data, even if it was abandoned. If it was left there the drive should have been destroyed. It is not ethical what this computer repair guy did and I am sure it was illegal. Can you image dropping off you laptop and having the repair guy release nude pictures of you to the public.

And I don’t see how anything on the laptop NOW can be authenticated to be real. Sure I believe Hunter is a drug user and has sex with women-I didn’t need the laptop to believe that. But since a lot of people had access to this laptop, people who’d want to hurt his family politically, they could have tampered with it.

Everyone who has released pornography of Hunter Biden are wrong and sure broke the law.

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Worked, briefly, in my youth for a shitty repair shop.

The owner would personally “help” any passable looking lady just to copy the drive and look for nudes. Or he was very gleeful to find video.

This is the same guy who “offices” out if a strip club.

I was too young and dumb to do anything but quit, and that was due to him not paying me more than any moral outrage. Can’t eat moral outrage, however justified.

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I’m guessing this did little to nothing to his business. You’re vastly overestimating the amount of people who are familiar with this story, the fraction of those people aware of this person, and the fraction of those people who would also be customers of this store.

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