Hunter Biden has filed a lawsuit against a former Trump White House aide for releasing the contents of his infamous ‘laptop from hell,’ which includes various pieces of evidence related to the Biden family, as well as personal photos, emails, and text messages exchanged between the first son and his colleagues.
Yes, it’s the very same laptop that 51 former intelligence officials claimed displayed “all the typical signs of a Russian information operation.”
According to a Wednesday night filing, Hunter Biden’s legal team is suing Garrett Ziegler, who operates the website Marco Polo.
The CBS News reports:
The 13-page lawsuit alleges that Ziegler and others violated federal and California privacy laws by “accessing, tampering with, manipulating, altering, copying and damaging computer data” gathered from Hunter Biden’s purported laptop and iPhone cloud storage without consent.
The lawsuit details how Ziegler and unnamed defendants allegedly obtained sensitive materials by hacking into encrypted data on Hunter Biden’s devices and uploading them to Ziegler’s website, where it remains public. In the lawsuit, Hunter Biden’s lawyers assert that the defendants had refused requests to “cease their unlawful activity” and return private data belonging to the president’s son.
In response, Ziegler told CBS News:
“I nor the nonprofit, Marco Polo, have been served with a lawsuit — but the one I read this morning out of the Central District of California should embarrass Winston & Strawn LLP. It’s not worth the paper it’s written on,” adding “Apart from the numerous state and federal laws and regulations which protect authors like me and the publishing that Marco Polo does, it’s not lost on us that Joe’s son filed this SLAPP one day after a so-called Impeachment Inquiry into his father was announced. The president’s son is a disgrace to our great nation.”
Earlier this year, Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit against a Delaware-based computer repairman named John Paul Mac Isaac. It was with Mac Isaac that Hunter left behind his now well-known laptop, the contents of which have been a focal point in several Congressional hearings.
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