Hunter Biden suggested that he never would have dropped off his laptop at a small Delaware computer repair business, but documents bearing his signature appear to contradict that claim.
The president’s son insisted that he would have taken his broken computer to a standard Apple store for repair work, when asked by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., during the younger Biden’s Wednesday interview with legislators on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
However, a receipt for work done by The Mac Shop—the small repair store in Delaware that turned over the laptop’s contents to the FBI in 2019—bears a signature that resembles Hunter Biden’s signature on other unearthed documents.
The Mac Store charged Hunter Biden $85 for the repair work on his laptop, according to a copy of the receipt first obtained and reported by the New York Post. The signature on that document looks very similar to the DocuSign signature Hunter Biden affixed to a business agreement pertaining to Oneida Holdings LLC, an entity established in 2017 to facilitate transactions involving Hunter Biden, American partners, and Chinese interests.
Wayne A. Barnes, a retired former FBI counterintelligence agent with extensive experience analyzing signatures, previously told Just The News that the signature affixed to the laptop repair receipt matches the signature affixed to other documents signed by Hunter Biden.
“Did you ever drop off a laptop at a repair shop?” Gaetz asked the first son, according to the transcript of the Wednesday interview that lawmakers released Thursday.
“I dropped a laptop off at the Apple repair shop that was literally three blocks from my office in Washington, D.C. If I was ever going to repair one, I would have walked up the street and dropped it there,” Hunter Biden replied, clarifying that he was talking about “the Apple store in Georgetown.”
“My question is about Delaware. Did you ever drop off a laptop in Delaware?” Gaetz then asked.
“The largest Apple store in America is the highest grossing and largest Apple store in America is at the Christiana Mall. If I was going to drop off a laptop—I don’t ever remember doing that, but if I was going to drop off a laptop, I would have gone to the Apple store, which was seven minutes from my parents’ home there,” the first son replied.
Hunter Biden then stated that he has no recollection of leaving his computer at a repair shop in Delaware, before going on to assert that the laptop’s archived contents included some fabricated material, including an allegedly fake conversation between him and a Secret Service agent in a Los Angeles hotel.
“There are many different things in there that are either—that are either fabricated, hacked, stolen or manipulated 100%,” Hunter Biden told the lawmakers regarding his laptop. The Department of Justice has acknowledged the legitimacy of the laptop’s data and alleged in court filings that Hunter Biden did leave his laptop at The Mac Store, while Internal Revenue Service whistleblower Gary Shapley testified last May that the FBI knew the data to be authentic as early as November 2019.
The FBI subsequently advised social media platforms that the laptop data could be a foreign influence operation, prompting social media companies to effectively censor the New York Post’s initial 2020 story on their platforms. Fifty-one former U.S. intelligence officials also signed an open letter characterizing the laptop and its contents as inauthentic and a potential Russian intelligence ploy.
In the “NPR Public Editor” newsletter written by Poynter’s Kelly McBride, a senior NPR editor explained that the outlet was declining to cover the laptop story ahead of the 2020 election because it “[did not] want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”
During his deposition, Hunter Biden also told lawmakers that Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas company, paid him handsomely in order to make the company more “Western-looking” and that he could not recall information about his business dealings on at least 29 occasions.
The White House did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation
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