Rudy Giuliani provided the materials to the
New York Post after they were allegedly found on a water-damaged
MacBook Pro left at a Delaware computer repair shop owned by John Paul Mac Isaac.
Mac Isaac obtained the laptop in April 2019, claiming it had been dropped off by a man who identified himself as Hunter Biden and requested that the data on the damaged laptop be recovered.
Mac Isaac eventually brought the laptop to the attention of the FBI, who seized it in December 2019, under the authority of a subpoena issued by a Wilmington grand jury that had been investigating Hunter Biden for financial matters since 2018.
He asserted three years later that while he was copying individual files and folders from the laptop's hard drive to another device, he "saw some content that was disturbing and then also raised some red flags", including "criminality ... related to foreign business dealings, to potential money laundering and, more importantly, national security issues and concerns".
This caused him "to do a deep dive into the laptop once it became my property".
Mac Isaac contacted Giuliani, who he said was his "lifeguard"—voicing credence to the
conspiracy theory that the
Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign was behind the
murder of campaign worker Seth Rich.
Steve Bannon informed the
New York Post of the laptop,
and he and Giuliani delivered a copy of the supposed laptop hard drive to the publication.
Weeks before, Bannon had boasted on Dutch television that he had Hunter Biden's hard drive.
Obviously, republicans.
They had the laptop hard drive, why didn't they release the contents?
Trump and Bannon.
You're delusional.
BOTH incidence started as a protest, until the violence started.
The attack on the US capitol building on January 6 2021 by Trumptards.
insurrection
in·sur·rec·tion
ˌin(t)-sə-ˈrek-shən
Synonyms of insurrection
: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government
There was no double standard moron.
Over 14,000 BLM people were arrested.
Just over 1000 people were arrested, so far from that incident.
The Republican "double standard" is trying to compare the two.