Hunter Laptop Repairman: “I Would Absolutely Do It Again”
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Published: March 22, 2022 | Date of Source Audio: March 21, 2022
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Larry Elder describes a life turned upside down by the laptop revelations
Larry Elder: Breitbart did a story on the Delaware computer repair shop owner, where Hunter Biden left off the laptop. His name is John Paul MacIsaac, 45 years old. Said he received a bunch of death threats and had to get a Wilmington state trooper to maintain a constant presence outside of his shop in an area called Trolley Square.
He said there were many times people came in and you can tell they weren't there to have a computer fixed. And if there weren't other people in the shop, he says, “I don't know what would've happened. I was having vegetables, eggs, ‘dog blank’ thrown at the shop every morning.”
And he described why he ended up making the laptop public. He said he became concerned because some of the content he was viewing. He informed the FBI of it before bringing it to the former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani. Eventually, the New York Post came in possession of the laptop’s contents and published a series of reports on them in October 2020, extensively covered by Breitbart.
“I would hate to think that I was singled out in a politically motivated attack.”
MacIsaac told the New York Post that because of the reaction, he had to close his shop, applied for unemployment, had to use his 401k funds to cover bills. And he wrote a letter to Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware and a close friend of President Joe Biden. Here's what he wrote to Coons, “I would hate to think that I was singled out in a politically motivated attack. If a state agency was weaponized to punish a perceived political enemy, the country has a right to know.”
He said after that letter, he began receiving unemployment funds, though he says it ended up being several thousand short of what he was owed. He also sued Twitter over the platform censorship of the stories regarding Hunter Biden. And six months after the filing, a federal judge dismissed the case with prejudice and ordered MacIsaac to cover Twitter's legal fees, which he says were in the range of around $175,000. Also, last September, he says he received an IRS invoice regarding his tax return from 2016. He showed it to an accountant who says generally, the agency does not go back that far unless they're looking for something. So, he paid the sum of nearly $60 and he said he decided not to contest the amount of money that he said that the IRS claims he owed.
All throughout last year, he says Facebook censored his posts on the platform. And ultimately, he was completely suspended in September. He successfully appealed the determination apparently, and has been restored on Facebook. He also says he's written a book about his life since the laptop revelation, but he's not found a publisher willing to work with him.
Now, although his life, he says, has been completely upended, he said, and I'm quoting, “If I had the choice to do it again, I would absolutely do it again. I was raised since 9/11 to believe if you see something, say something.”
