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The Laptop Was Real. Now They’re Burying It Under New Lies.

By Buck Buckhorn · August 12, 2026
Opinion

**The Laptop Was Real. Now They’re Burying It Under New Lies.**

Hunter Biden, the vice president's son who allegedly left a laptop at a repair shop.Unknown authorUnknown author (CC BY 3.0 us) via Wikimedia Commons
Hunter Biden, the vice president's son who allegedly left a laptop at a repair shop.

Remember October 2020? Three weeks before a presidential election, the New York Post ran a story about a laptop Hunter Biden left at a Delaware repair shop. Emails. Business deals. Ukrainian money flowing to the vice president’s son. And what happened next? Big tech locked the story down. Twitter killed the link. Facebook throttled it. Former intelligence officials lined up to call it Russian disinformation. The experts spoke, and the little guy was supposed to nod and move along.

Rudy Giuliani, the lawyer who received the laptop data from the repair shop owner.DHSgov (Public domain) via Wikimedia Commons
Rudy Giuliani, the lawyer who received the laptop data from the repair shop owner.

Funny how that works.

The repair shop owner, a man named John Paul Mac Isaac, handed the data to Rudy Giuliani. Mac Isaac admitted under oath that he is legally blind and could not even confirm the person who dropped off the laptop was Hunter Biden. But forensic analysis later authenticated some of those emails. Real. Verified. One was even

Editor’s note. The article confidently asserts the laptop was real while conveniently omitting that the owner who surrendered it was legally blind and couldn't identify the person who brought it in. (W.K.)