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Is Hunter the Real Whistleblower?
John Paul Mac Isaac has a vision disability that prevents him from identifying Hunter as the drunken man who dropped off Hunter’s laptops at Isaac’s computer repair shop in April of 2019. But even the WAPO and NYT now admit that the laptop is authentic—that it is Hunter Biden’s laptop.
Isaac was certain, however, that the man who dropped off several laptops at his store was drunk. It was obvious from his behavior and mannerisms. When Isaac’s repair work was completed, Hunter failed to pick up his laptop. Isaac says he made multiple unsuccessful attempts to contact Hunter but none of his calls were returned.
Given the toxic nature of the laptop files, why did Hunter leave it with Isaac?
The next day, when Hunter was no longer roaring drunk, why did he not have an OMG moment and rush to recover his computers?
Why would he not respond to Isaac’s pleas to pick up his computer?
The videos on the laptop attest to Hunter’s active intimate social life. Why would he risk exposing those to the world?
DID HUNTER WANT THE LAPTOP’S CONTENTS TO BE PUBLIC?
A psychologist might posit that “down deep” in his psyche, Hunter wanted the rampant corruption of Biden, Inc., to be exposed.
Perhaps his guilt at trading Biden’s political influence for cash from Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian entities and sharing them with The Big Guy had become too much for him to bear.
In Hunter’s 2019 email to his daughter, he tells her not to worry, “unlike Pop I won’t make you give me half your salary.” Sounds bitter, doesn’t he?
Perhaps Hunter was sick of being the point man for his father’s corruption. Maybe that’s why Hunter was doped up or drunk much of the time—to avoid having to think about the obvious pay-to-play scheme he was running on Burisma, the CCP, and Russia.
Hunter’s cash-for-influence schemes constitute a massive, unprecedented scandal that will eventually bring down President Biden.
However, an equally disturbing scandal and much broader in scope is the manner in which “the authorities” responded to Isaac informing them about the laptop.
DOJ, FBI, US intel agencies, corporate and social media, and Democrats all participated in a massive cover-up. They knew of the laptop contents well in advance of the 2020 election, and they did nothing or actively worked to prevent the disclosure.
After Isaac contacted the FBI, the agency made a forensic copy of the laptop, then confiscated it weeks later. This was in 2019, a year before the election.
There must be a reckoning for these actors in the coverup. It will not come from DOJ, however, because DOJ is now the most corrupt of all government agencies, and that’s saying a lot.
As for prosecuting The Big Guy for his lifelong grifting, Joe is prosecution-proof. Given the dementia that is evident in his teleprompted speeches and off-the-cuff remarks, his movements, his explosive temper, and his aura of confusion, he is clearly not competent to understand the nature of the eventual charges against him, nor can he assist in his defense.
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This is a very interesting hypothesis about what should be an obvious question: why did Hunter never come back for the computer? Thanks for bringing it to light (for me, at least).
This assumes that a member of the Biden family has a conscience. Unlikely.
Let’s find out. Bring up FARA and fraud charges and see if Joe pleads incompetence. (not incontinence)
He may very well despise his father. The drug-addicted life could support that theory. Whenever there is this kind of dependency, the dependent resents the parent: “It’s your fault I’m like this.” This kind relationship does its worst damage in between children and parents of the same sex–mother to daughter, father to son.
It would make a lot of sense that Hunter was actually trying to hurt his father and that he dropped off the laptop himself.
And until Beau Biden’s untimely death, Joe Biden was all “Beau this” and “Beau that.” Meanwhile, Hunter was all “Beau, Beau, Beau!”
In a cross between the Pentagon Papers, The Bourne Identity and Godzilla, Jack Maxey has fled with his family and a copy of Hunter Biden’s hard drive to Switzerland where his computer analysts have uncovered 480 gigabytes of pdfs, videographic images and text messages that Hunter Biden thought he had deleted. He hopes to have the information on-line in a week or so. But he has already tried to stash this information in a number of drop boxes, and they were deleted within minutes or seconds of his downloading them, so their release may be blocked.
Maxey indicated that he has chosen not to view any of the “inappropriate” photos and videos because he wants to have all the hard drive’s information stored and cataloged before he views anything that would require him to turn it over to the Swiss police for possible prosecution.
One of Maxey’s concerns is that the nation of Switzerland has for the first time ever dropped international neutrality status over the Ukrainian war, and this will likely make political refuge for individuals harder or impossible.
When he finally was able to notify the appropriate two-star general of particular DOD root certificates that gave Hunter Biden access to the Department of Defense’s system, the general called Maxey back to tell him that all of those certificates had been removed from their system, and a few hours later the same man wrote Maxey two messages, one saying that they can’t be a shining city on a hill if people know they are corrupt, and the other saying that Maxey needs “to get [his] family safe because these monsters will stop at nothing to destroy you”.
Maxey says that the Press’ outrage over the contents of Hunter’s laptop are in the Press now to get ahead of this story and cover their tracks.
This link is to a page that includes a video of Emerald Robinson’s interview of Maxey (the first 23 minutes).
Too true.
A most interesting theory.
What’s the lifespan of a laptop? Was it common to have 500 gigs or more of storage on a laptop in 2015? I’d like to know how many years were covered by the material in the laptop.
A lot of consumer-level people wouldn’t have had a laptop with that much capacity, but Hunter is one of the Elite.
Yeah, maybe his crack dealer gave it to him as a frequent flyer gift. But seriously, there is probably close to a terabyte of info in there. Who saves such stuff on their home laptop? Contracts with Chinese oligarchs stored with young girls with suggestive social media poses (I’m gathering).
How many years does it take to accumulate a terabyte of information by 2016?
A lot of people have only a laptop for their computer. I think they’re foolish/stupid, but that’s one of the things that can happen. If your desktop computer needs a new keyboard or monitor etc, you can just plug them in. It doesn’t have to go to a shop where they can see all your data files.
The laptop I am typing on (a MacBook Air) has 500GB of solid state storage, and was coincidentally bought in 2015. It’s far from the top of the line for Macs, and Windows machines tended to have a bit more storage anyway since the base box is somewhat cheaper. So, yeah, very reasonable for a 2015 laptop to have a T.
The easiest way to fill it up with with video. That doesn’t necessarily mean videos where Hunter or anyone else explicitly said ‘save this’. Pretty much any realtime playback may use on-disc buffer storage files. Those are created and deleted transparently to the user, and are likely among the ‘deleted’ files being described, so it it doesn’t mean that Hunter or anyone else explicitly saved and deleted that much ‘by hand’. This seems a reasonable suspicion given that Maxey is essentially saying “I don’t want to look” lest he incur a duty to report.
Thanks. This goes a long way to answering my questions.
Interesting theory. I find it plausible.
Why would Maxey have a duty to report? Is he a law-enforcement officer, or a medical professional, or a teacher or something?
If correct, sounds like there may be a more extensive ‘duty to report’ in Switzerland. I have no knowledge one way or another. (It’s more widespread in the US than many know. For instance, I’m a 4-H volunteer, which means I have the duty when in contact with those kids. Fortunately, I’ve never had anything to report.)
In laptops 500GB was relatively common, 1TB was possible but “extra,” but they were slow. They’d still be HDD and not SSD though, which accounts for an easier recovery of deleted items.
I think he’s concerned about possessing ch1ld pr0n.
Well I guess he wouldn’t want to just dispose of the evidence. And I suppose if he found that, he’d have to report it or risk being tagged as an accomplice somehow, especially when the Bidens are involved. And then the evidence might get disappeared.
Because Hunter didnt have a ‘next day’ when he was no longer roaring drunk. He had weeks, months at a time, when he was drunk every waking (woke?) moment.
“Deep Down” he wanted to get caught? No. Hunter’s not a deep person. He has no second thoughts, no shame. Just ego and entitlement. IF anything, he wanted to his father to ‘get caught’ IF we’re going to give Hunter a complex psychology, wouldn’t it be patricide? IF he couldn’t kill the man, maybe he could take satisfaction on killing his dreams, his life long ambition.
Hunter never have imagined that the media would be so corrupt and steamroll his scandal…
I think we’re reading too much into this. Hunter Biden is a complete train wreck addict. If his name was Warshawski, he’d be living under some cardboard on a side street somewhere. He didnt plan to have his laptop expose his father’s corruption, he’s incapable of that level of thinking, planning. He’s an addict, not a 3d chess champion.
Chaos and destruction rarely need planning. They just need someone to neglect to do the right thing.
Yes, I think it was fundamental irresponsibility combined with a sense of entitlement. Come to think of it, when he was asked his last name, didn’t he say it haughtily, as if it should have been obvious?
Bottom line, he just didn’t care about anything.
Yes, if you want to drunkenly burn down a house… Then go at it… But if you’re going to destroy your Vice President Father’s life, career and frustrate his lifetime ambitions – that takes some planning. The absolute dumpster fire, Hunter Biden was/is incapable of that level of planning.
I don’t think anyone here is making the case that Hunter Biden is an evil genius. Under normal circumstances, where the media and intelligence agencies aren’t running a protection racket on behalf of Democrats, Hunter’s negligence would have destroyed his father’s career prospects. And a passive-aggressive, subconscious desire to destroy him would explain Hunter’s negligence in recovering his incriminating laptop.