The Delaware computer repair shop whose owner reportedly provided a copy of a hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has closed shop.
An attorney for John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of The Mac Shop, told the Delaware News Journal on Tuesday that he closed his computer repair store after the 2020 elections after receiving death threats, and an unidentified neighbor of the shop owner told the outlet that he left town.
Mac Isaac found himself under the national news media’s spotlight in October after the New York Post reported that he had provided a copy of a hard drive that supposedly belonged to Hunter Biden to Giuliani, who is President Donald Trump’s personal attorney. Giuliani later provided a full copy of the drive to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Doing a quick errand in Wilmington, Del. brought me by the famous Mac Shop. It’s closed. pic.twitter.com/KYYFCpxuYs
The unusual sourcing for the laptop led many to suspect that it was part of a foreign disinformation campaign, and the Associated Press reported in October that the FBI was investigating whether the emails on the drive were connected to a foreign influence operation.
However, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliff said the emails were not associated with a Russian disinformation campaign. A cybersecurity expert cryptographically authenticated a key 2015 email from the drive that Hunter Biden received from an executive of a Ukrainian gas company discussing an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden.
The Post called the email “smoking gun” evidence proving Joe Biden had spoken with his son abou... (Read more)
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