Delaware Computer Repair Shop Owner at Center of Hunter Biden Scandal Files $500 Million Defamation Suit Against Twitter

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John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of a computer repair shop in Delaware, has filed a $500 million defamation lawsuit against social media giant Twitter.

Isaac’s shop is where Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, abandoned a laptop after dropping it off for repairs. The laptop contained compromising photographs, as well as a trove of documents that seemed to detail an international money-for-access scheme perpetrated by the Biden family.

In a bid to justify its censorship of stories stemming from information gleaned from the computer, Twitter implied that the information was the result of a hack. It was these allegations that triggered the lawsuit.

“On October 14, 2020, Defendant locked the NY POST’s account as it attempted to post and disseminate its exposé on the social media platform provided by Defendant,” the suit claims. “In addition to locking the NY POST’s account, Defendant published that it was doing so because the NY POST’s story violated Defendant’s rules against ‘distribution of hacked material.'”

“Defendant’s actions and statements had the specific intent to communicate to the world that Plaintiff is a hacker,” the filing states. “According to Merriam-Webster, a ‘hacker’ is ‘a person who illegally gains access to and sometimes tampers with information in a computer system.’ The term ‘hacker’ is widely viewed as disparaging, particularly when said about someone who owns a computer repair business. Plaintiff is not a hacker and the information obtained from the computer does not [constitute] hacked materials because Plaintiff lawfully gained access to the computer, first with the permission of its owner, BIDEN, and then, after BIDEN failed to retrieve the hard drive despite Plaintiff’s requests, in accordance with the Mac Shop’s abandoned property policy.”

After censoring the information for weeks social media companies as well as mainstream media outlets began reporting on the story in the weeks immediately after the Nov. 3 election.

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