{"id":32723,"date":"2020-10-21T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32723"},"modified":"2020-10-21T11:24:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:24:27","slug":"full-story-behind-hunters-laptop-debunks-latest-russia-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32723","title":{"rendered":"Full Story Behind Hunter&#8217;s Laptop Debunks Latest Russia Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>As the Hunter Biden laptop scandal threatens to throw the 2020 election into chaos with what appears to be\u00a0<strong>solid, undisputed evidence of high-level corruption by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter,\u00a0<\/strong>the same crowd which peddled the Trump-Russia hoax is now suggesting that\u00a0<strong>Russia is behind it all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To wit, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who swore on National television that he had evidence Trump was colluding with Russia &#8211; now says that President Trump is handing the Kremlin a &#8220;propaganda coup from Vladimir Putin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1317432785070706688&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Ffull-story-behind-hunters-laptops-debunks-latest-russia-conspiracy-theory&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1317432785070706688\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT)<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>has gone full tin-foil<\/strong>, suggesting that Giuliani was a &#8216;key target&#8217; of &#8216;Kremlin constructed anti-Biden propaganda.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1317449899860951040&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Ffull-story-behind-hunters-laptops-debunks-latest-russia-conspiracy-theory&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1317449899860951040\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Headlines in major publications are perhaps even more conspiratorial:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory.png?itok=tewuJ0Gu\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory.png?itok=tewuJ0Gu\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory.png?itok=kou9jvWk 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory.png?itok=kou9jvWk 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory.png?itok=kou9jvWk 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory.png?itok=kou9jvWk 2x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory.png?itok=kou9jvWk 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory.png?itok=tewuJ0Gu 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"118\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a02a6b55-fb1e-411a-a491-855c0a4a9c5c\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory1.png?itok=PjIb7myy\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory1.png?itok=PjIb7myy\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory1.png?itok=vJSLCplZ 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory1.png?itok=vJSLCplZ 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory1.png?itok=vJSLCplZ 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory1.png?itok=vJSLCplZ 2x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory1.png?itok=vJSLCplZ 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory1.png?itok=PjIb7myy 1x\" type=\"image\/png\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/crazy%20theory1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"167\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"49ac2bc3-e4ea-4104-9a5c-87666c81e984\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>And of course, propagandists are doing their thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1317443500330373120&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Ffull-story-behind-hunters-laptops-debunks-latest-russia-conspiracy-theory&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1317443500330373120\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Yet,\u00a0<strong>if one looks at the actual facts of the case<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; in particular, that\u00a0<strong>Hunter Biden appears to have dropped his own laptops off<\/strong>\u00a0at a computer repair shop,\u00a0<strong>signed a service ticket<\/strong>, and the shop owner approached the FBI first and Rudy Giuliani last after Biden failed to pick them up,<strong>\u00a0the left&#8217;s latest Russia conspiracy theory is quickly debunked<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/turcopolier.typepad.com\/sic_semper_tyrannis\/2020\/10\/yes-the-hunter-biden-emails-are-authentic-by-larry-c-johnson.html\"><em>Authored by Larry C Johnson via Sic Semper Tyrannis\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>(emphasis ours)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hunter%20isaac.jpg?itok=0ZKOg_hd\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hunter%20isaac.jpg?itok=0ZKOg_hd\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hunter%20isaac.jpg?itok=SIJxaeRj 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hunter%20isaac.jpg?itok=SIJxaeRj 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hunter%20isaac.jpg?itok=SIJxaeRj 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hunter%20isaac.jpg?itok=SIJxaeRj 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/hunter%20isaac.jpg?itok=SIJxaeRj 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/hunter%20isaac.jpg?itok=0ZKOg_hd 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/hunter%20isaac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"269\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"4dd5c158-4a5f-4989-83e4-a8d15f83717f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the story of an American patriot, an honorable man,\u00a0<strong>John Paul Mac Issac, who tried to do the right thing<\/strong>\u00a0and is now being unfairly and maliciously slandered as an agent of foreign intelligence, specifically Russia.\u00a0<strong>He is not an agent or spy for anyone. He is his own man. How do I know? I have known his dad for more than 20 years.<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019ve known John Paul\u2019s dad as Mac. Mac is a decorated Vietnam Veteran, who flew gunships in Vietnam. And he continued his military service with an impeccable record until he retired as an Air Force Colonel. The crews of those gunships have an annual reunion and Mac usually takes John Paul along, who volunteers his computer and video skills to record and compile the stories of those brave men who served their country in a difficult war.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediaactionnetwork.com\/burisma-executive-hunter-biden-his-ultimate-purpose-was-to-close-down-ukrainian-investigations\/\">This story is very simple<\/a>\u2013<strong>Hunter Biden dropped off three computers with liquid damage<\/strong>\u00a0at a repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware on April 12, 2019. The owner, John Mac Issac, examined the three and determined that one was beyond recovery, one was okay and the data on the harddrive of the third could be recovered.\u00a0<strong>Hunter signed the service ticket and John Paul Mac Issac repaired the hard drive and down loaded the data<\/strong>. During this process\u00a0<strong>he saw some disturbing images and a number of emails that concerned Ukraine, Burisma, China and other issues<\/strong>. With the work completed, Mr. Mac Issac prepared an invoice, sent it to Hunter Biden and notified him that the computer was ready to be retrieved. H<strong>unter did not respond<\/strong>. In the ensuing four months (May, June, July and August), Mr. Mac Issac made repeated efforts to contact Hunter Biden. Biden never answered and never responded. More importantly,\u00a0<strong>Biden stiffed John Paul Mac Issac\u2013i.e., he did not pay the bill.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p>When the manufactured Ukraine crisis surfaced in August 2019, John Paul realized he was sitting on radioactive material that might be relevant to the investigation.\u00a0<strong>After conferring with his father, Mac and John Paul decided that Mac would take the information to the FBI office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.<\/strong>\u00a0Mac walked into the Albuquerque FBI office and spoke with an agent who refused to give his name. Mac explained the material he had, but was rebuffed by the FBI.\u00a0<strong>He was told basically, get lost<\/strong>. This was mid-September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Two months passed and then, out of the blue, the FBI contacted John Paul Mac Issac.\u00a0<strong>Two FBI agents from the Wilmington FBI office\u2013Joshua Williams and Mike Dzielak\u2013came to John Paul\u2019s business<\/strong>. He offered immediately to give them the hard drive, no strings attached.\u00a0<strong>Agents Williams and Dzielak declined to take the device<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks later, the intrepid agents called and asked to come and image the hard drive. John Paul agreed but, instead of taking the hard drive or imaging the drive,\u00a0<strong>they gave him a subpoena. It was part of a grand jury proceeding<\/strong>\u00a0but neither agent said anything about the purpose of the grand jury. John Paul complied with the subpoena and turned over the hard drive and the computer.<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing months, starting with the impeachment trial of President Trump, he heard nothing from the FBI and knew that none of the evidence from the hard drive had been shared with President Trump\u2019s defense team.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>The lack of action and communication with the FBI led John Paul to make the fateful decision to contact Rudy Giuliani\u2019s office<\/strong>\u00a0and offer a copy of the drive to the former mayor. We now know that Rudy accepted John Paul\u2019s offer and that Rudy\u2019s team shared the information with the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>John Paul Mac Issac is not responsible for the emails, images and videos recovered from Hunter Biden\u2019s computer. He was hired to do a job, he did the job and submitted an invoice for the work.\u00a0<strong>Hunter Biden, for some unexplained reason, never responded and never asked for the computer. But that changed last Tuesday, October 13, 2020. A person claiming to be Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyer called John Paul Mac Issac and asked for the computer to be returned. Too late. That horse had left the barn and was with the FBI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Paul, acting under Delaware law, understood that Hunter\u2019s computer became the property of his business 90 days after it had been abandoned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/full-story-behind-hunters-laptops-debunks-latest-russia-conspiracy-theory\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/full-story-behind-hunters-laptops-debunks-latest-russia-conspiracy-theory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}