Staff Reports
The saga of Hunter Biden and his mysterious computer data just keeps getting more convoluted. The first son is knee-deep in legal battles involving the data from his laptop and external hard drive that he conveniently abandoned at a repair shop in Delaware. And now, his handling of the data is raising some eyebrows, to say the least.
Hunter Biden’s competing approaches in court to his laptop contents https://t.co/nTpqZCt3uE https://t.co/nTpqZCt3uE
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 10, 2024
In one case, Biden is squaring off against former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler and his company, Marco Polo. They’re in the midst of a lawsuit where Biden is trying to prove that the data in question belongs to him. On the flip side, in Delaware, Biden is singing a different tune, distancing himself from the same set of data and fighting to keep it out of a criminal case brought by special counsel David Weiss.
The drama all began when various operatives got their hands on copies of Biden’s laptop and hard drive and served up the material to the New York Post just before the presidential election that his father, Joe Biden, was running in.
Now, Biden finds himself in a messy legal tangle, with Ziegler’s company Marco Polo making a very public display of using the data from the laptop. Although Biden has admitted that at least some of the data belongs to him, he’s also crying foul, claiming it has been “manipulated” and “tampered with.” Convenient, huh?
Ziegler is trying to get the lawsuit dropped, arguing that Biden can’t claim ownership over copies of the data. His defense team is pushing back, saying that the argument is “baseless” and citing court decisions that suggest ownership of a physical computer isn’t necessary to seek redress for unauthorized access to data.
Meanwhile, in his criminal case related to gun charges in Delaware, Biden is doubting the laptop’s authenticity and gearing up to argue that its data should be inadmissible as evidence. His defense attorneys are questioning the origin and authenticity of the data, asking for an exact copy of the laptop for examination and claiming a Fourth Amendment violation in the search warrants used by Weiss.
Weiss, however, seems undeterred, contending that the evidence he plans to use against Biden is solid, despite the murky waters surrounding the computer data. Nonetheless, Biden is adamant about challenging the admissibility of the evidence gathered from the final search warrant.
In the end, the whole situation seems like a tangled web of legal maneuvering and data disputes. With Biden seemingly flip-flopping on his relationship to the data, who knows where this wild ride will end? One thing’s for sure, it’s shaping up to be a juicy legal battle with no shortage of twists and turns.
