Court filings confirm Hunter Biden's laptop is real, abandoned at repair shop

In a new court filing in the Delaware gun case against Hunter Biden, federal prosecutors confirmed the existence of the infamous laptop and verified the story of how it came into the possession of the FBI and the IRS.

The filing, part of Special Counsel David Weiss's gun case against the first son, presented evidence that Hunter Biden was addicted to controlled substances at the time of his gun purchase, making it illegal.

“In August 2019, IRS and FBI investigators obtained a search warrant for tax violations for the defendant’s Apple iCloud account. In response to that warrant, in September 2019, Apple produced backups of data from various of the defendant’s electronic devices that he had backed up to his iCloud account,” the filing reads.

“Investigators also later came into possession of the defendant’s Apple MacBook Pro, which he had left at a computer store. A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop and the results of the search were largely duplicative of information investigators had already obtained from Apple,” the prosecutors’ motion continued.

This small paragraph confirms two things:

1. Hunter Biden did, in fact, leave his laptop at a computer repair shop.
2. The information investigators found on the laptop closely matched evidence that they had already obtained from the iCloud account, verifying the contents on the device.

You can read the court filing below: 

In September, Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani and his lawyer claiming that they violated California and Federal law when they accessed information they allege was found on the abandoned laptop and that they said came from a computer repair man in Delaware. In the suit, Hunter Biden refused to admit that their story of how the laptop was obtained was true. 

When the laptop was raised in the 2020 presidential election, then-candidate Joe Biden claimed that the information obtained from his son’s device was a Russian disinformation operation—“a Russian plan.”

In addition, 51 former intelligence official wrote an open letter claiming that the Hunter Biden laptop had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation” likely designed to influence the outcome of the election.

However, evidence provided by IRS Whistleblower Gary Shapley to Congress showed the FBI had authenticated the laptop in late 2019 and again in early 2020, well before the letter was released, now confirmed again by the new court filings.