Hunter Biden Reeked of Alcohol When Trying to Get Laptops Fixed in 2019: Book Excerpt

Hunter Biden Reeked of Alcohol When Trying to Get Laptops Fixed in 2019: Book Excerpt
Hunter Biden walks to Marine One on the Ellipse outside the White House in Washington on May 22, 2021. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
Frank Fang
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The Apple computer repair man who got his hands on Hunter Biden’s laptop filled with compromising emails about his alleged corrupt foreign business deals has revealed how he and the president’s son met.

John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of a now-shuttered computer repair store in Delaware, wrote that Hunter Biden walked into his shop slightly drunk on April 12, 2019, according to a book excerpt the New York Post obtained and published on May 6. The excerpt is taken from Issac’s upcoming book “American Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth.”

Isaac wrote that Hunter Biden walked into his store carrying three MacBook Pros 10 minutes before closing. He added that he didn’t recognize who his customer was at first.

“He was about my height, six feet tall, but a little heavier,” Isaac wrote. “Alcohol fumes preceded him. He slid the three laptops onto the bar counter as he fumbled for a seat.”

Isaac recalled seeing a Beau Biden Foundation sticker on one of the laptops. It was only when he asked for Hunter Biden’s name to enter into the store management system did he realize who his customer was.

“I need the data recovered off these, but they all have liquid damage and won’t turn on,” Isaac recalled what Hunter Biden told him.

A man walks past "The Mac Shop" in Wilmington, Delaware on Oct. 21, 2020. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
A man walks past "The Mac Shop" in Wilmington, Delaware on Oct. 21, 2020. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

One of the computers, a 15-inch laptop, was beyond repair because of extensive liquid damage, according to the excerpt. Isaac was able to boot up another computer, a 13-inch 2015 Macbook Pro, but it required an obscene password and an external keyboard. Hunter Biden eventually left behind the third laptop.

Isaac said it was during the data recovery process on the third laptop that he noticed lewd pictures.

“I started to individually drag and drop the files to the recovery folder. It took only a few files before I noticed pornography appearing in the right column,” he wrote. “This is a vocational hazard; I’d gotten rather used to and gave it no mind.”

He added, “I was a little amazed by the sheer quantity though, and by the boldness of leaving porn files on one’s desktop.”

Isaac wrote he opened a PDF with the file name “income” and said the document “seemed shady.”

“It was an email from January 16, 2017, saved as a PDF. At the top were the years 2013, 2014, and 2015. Next to each year was the amount of taxable income earned: $833,000+ in 2013, $847,000+ amended to $1,247,000+ in 2014, $2,478,000+ in 2015,” according to the excerpt.

“I saw that a lot of money had exchanged hands, and it didn’t seem like it had been recorded lawfully,” he wrote. “But what did I know? Plus, it was none of my business.”

Hunter Biden never came back to the store to pick up his laptop, and Isaac subsequently became the owner of the device, in accordance with the store’s abandonment policy. Isaac first gave a copy of the hard drive to the FBI in December 2019, before handing another copy to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer Robert Costello.

In October 2020, the New York Post broke the story after obtaining a copy of the hard drive from Giuliani. Emails from the hard drive and Treasury records revealed how Joe Biden, his brother James, and Hunter Biden were involved in various foreign business ventures, in countries such as Ukraine, Russia, and China. At the time, many media outlets discredited the revelations as “Russian disinformation” and the news was blocked by social media platforms.

The Washington Post and The New York Times only authenticated the emails and published their own reports relating to Hunter Biden’s laptop in March.

Then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, with his son Hunter at the Duke Georgetown NCAA college basketball game in Washington on Jan. 30, 2010. (Nick Wass/AP Photo)
Then-Vice President Joe Biden, left, with his son Hunter at the Duke Georgetown NCAA college basketball game in Washington on Jan. 30, 2010. Nick Wass/AP Photo
In a blurb promoting his book, Issac said he became concerned about his safety.

“After his father announced his candidacy for president of the United States, and Hunter failed to pay for and collect his computer, fear for my safety grew,” he wrote. “There was paperwork in Hunter’s possession giving me permission to examine and copy his data—someone was going to come looking for the laptop, and come looking for me.”

Eventually, he said he had to leave Delaware after media outlets began reporting on the laptop.

“I was instantly labeled as a hacker and a criminal. My actions were labeled Russian disinformation, and it didn’t take long before people started attacking my business and my character, forcing me to close my shop and flee the state,” he added.

On May 3, Isaac filed a lawsuit in Maryland against Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), CNN, The Daily Beast, and Politico for alleged defamation, saying they wrongfully accused him of spreading Russian disinformation.
His attorney, Brian Della Rocca, told the New York Post that Isaac is seeking “at least $1 million in compensatory damages [and] punitive damages.” 
Frank Fang
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Frank Fang is a Taiwan-based journalist. He covers U.S., China, and Taiwan news. He holds a master's degree in materials science from Tsinghua University in Taiwan.
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