The computer repair shop owner who handed over a laptop hard drive that may have belonged to former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has reportedly received death threats and closed his shop.
A sign posted on John Mac Isaac’s Trolley Square store ten days after the election said it was closed, a neighbor claiming that the owner had left town. Mac Isaac’s lawyer, Brian Della Rocca, confirmed to the Delaware News Journal that Mac Isaac had closed the shop, but did not say whether his client had left town. He did claim that his client had received death threats.
Della Rocca told the Journal that his office had communicated with Wilmington FBI agents and Delaware’s Assistant United States Attorney Leslie Wolf about the situation, saying, “I’ve been in touch with federal law enforcement, yes.”
The hard drive triggered a firestorm after The New York Post published a story on the alleged contents of the drive, which had been given to Rudy Giuliani. The story claimed that emails on the laptop showed that when Joe Biden served as vice president in 2015, he met with an executive from Burisma Holdings while Hunter Biden had been employed by Burisma. That claim was vehemently denied by the Biden campaign.
Democrats responded by alleging the story was part of a “Russian disinformation” campaign, and some social media outlets suppressed the story, arguing that the information was suspect.
Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the emails were not connected to a Russian disinformation plot, asserting, “Let me be clear, the intelligence community doesn’t believe that because there is no intelligence that supports that and we shared no intelligence with chairman Schiff or any other member of Congress that Hunter Biden’s laptop is part of some Russian disinformation campaign. It’s simply not true.”
“Two days after the Post story, USA Today and the Associated Press reported the FBI was investigating whether the emails published in the article were connected to a potential Russian operation to spread disinformation,” the Delaware News Journal notes.
Della Rocca said that John Mac Isaac had consulted his father, retired United States Air Force Col. Richard “Steve” Mac Isaac, about what to do with the laptop, and his father had brought a copy of the hard drive to FBI agents in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Della Rocca continued that three months later, “The FBI reached out to John Paul and met him at his house (in Wilmington) to discuss John Paul’s concerns. On December 9, 2019, the FBI served a subpoena on John Paul for the computer, the hard drive, and all related paperwork. He willingly gave it to the FBI and was happy to see it go.”
Della Rocca said that his client grew impatient after the FBI did not publish any information about the issue, and so in September 2020 he contacted Giuliani.
“It remains unclear whether the emails purportedly found on the hard drive and which formed the basis of the disputed New York Post story are authentic,” The Delaware News Journal commented.
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This Man should be protected and kept safe by any means possible! The FBI is not acting in good faith for the american People, which sends a signal to all American’s that they are NOT protected if and when they uncover a crime and report it, as the right thing to do, that if the FBI is politically involved in or do not like the evidence! When did we start to allow our citizen whistle Blowers to become “Criminals”? The FBI Agent’s and Agency took a Oath to Protect and Defend all it’s citizens! Why is this not investigated and brought into the light? Is our Total Government corrupt?