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brooklynite

(94,483 posts)
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 02:48 PM Nov 2020

Computer repairman who claimed he gave Hunter Biden data to Giuliani closes shop

Source: USA Today

Weeks before the Nov. 3 presidential election, the world’s political intrigue turned to a Wilmington computer repair shop after the New York Post revealed that its owner gave a copy of a laptop hard drive he believed belonged to Hunter Biden to a lawyer representing Rudy Giuliani.

Ten days after the election, a sign on the repair shop’s door said it had closed. A neighbor said the owner had left town.

A slew of new information has surfaced in the weeks since, including details about the laptop’s journey from the repair shop to Giuliani's office.

Yet with fears of fake news flooding the nation's consciousness and Giuliani's resistance to share the source material, it remains unclear whether the emails purportedly found on the hard drive and which formed the basis of the disputed New York Post story are authentic.


Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/24/hunter-biden-laptop-more-details-emerge-rudy-giuliani/6404635002/



A good con job calls for a quick departure after the Mark has been taken.
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Computer repairman who claimed he gave Hunter Biden data to Giuliani closes shop (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2020 OP
Republican Ratfuckery 101 ffr Nov 2020 #1
Might be to skip paying his bills. Mine did. One fine day he just closed up the shop and CTyankee Nov 2020 #2
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ awesomerwb1 Nov 2020 #3
What island did he go to and can we extridict? mpcamb Nov 2020 #21
He's leaving on a jet plane, don't know when he'll be back again ... marble falls Nov 2020 #4
Back to Moscow, and a heroes welcome. TeamPooka Nov 2020 #5
exactly LymphocyteLover Nov 2020 #12
They got what they wanted. A stupid press that publicized it and even left it hanging.... LiberalLovinLug Nov 2020 #6
Yeah!!! IsItJustMe Nov 2020 #9
If I was this individual I would go nowhere near Russia jmowreader Nov 2020 #7
not clear he really failed though LymphocyteLover Nov 2020 #13
Or loose ends when they win. marble falls Nov 2020 #15
+1 ProfessorGAC Nov 2020 #26
Wow!!! That is one effed up story. Of coarse Rudy would be involved in this. IsItJustMe Nov 2020 #8
Well... jmowreader Nov 2020 #16
Probably not many customers want Kashkakat v.2.0 Nov 2020 #10
The blind computer repairman ToxMarz Nov 2020 #11
If he got paid enough, he might be sitting on a beach somewhere - sipping a Mai Tai. Talitha Nov 2020 #14
It's like when you kill the hit man to cover your tracks infullview Nov 2020 #17
I just wonder where he'll resurface Warpy Nov 2020 #18
Probably never Nasruddin Nov 2020 #22
HaHaHa...Another satisfied customer of Rudy Giuliani AKing Nov 2020 #19
i don't think anything was authentic about this stupid story samsingh Nov 2020 #20
... greenjar_01 Nov 2020 #23
Michael K Williams is so dope ... mr_lebowski Nov 2020 #27
Yep reminds me of a scene from The Sting.... paleotn Nov 2020 #24
Has anyone checked for him in the basement of the human trafficking pizzeria in Washington, DC? Mr. Ected Nov 2020 #25

ffr

(22,665 posts)
1. Republican Ratfuckery 101
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 02:59 PM
Nov 2020

Last edited Tue Nov 24, 2020, 04:57 PM - Edit history (1)

And excellent bookmark for anyone who might think, even for a minute, that democrats will ever be 1/1000th as corrupt as republicans.

This!

CTyankee

(63,900 posts)
2. Might be to skip paying his bills. Mine did. One fine day he just closed up the shop and
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 03:01 PM
Nov 2020

disappeared. His website lingered for a bit then was gone.

Now we have no one to help us.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,168 posts)
6. They got what they wanted. A stupid press that publicized it and even left it hanging....
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 03:34 PM
Nov 2020

"it remains unclear whether the emails purportedly found on the hard drive and which formed the basis of the disputed New York Post story are authentic."

Translation for the red hats: " The press can't even dispute it! Now they are going to bury it! TRUMP2020!.....er 2024!"

jmowreader

(50,546 posts)
7. If I was this individual I would go nowhere near Russia
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 03:47 PM
Nov 2020

The KGB assassination manual is still in the Kremlin library, and the Russians do not tolerate failure.

IsItJustMe

(7,012 posts)
8. Wow!!! That is one effed up story. Of coarse Rudy would be involved in this.
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 03:50 PM
Nov 2020

Sounds like that hard drive has been to hell and back. Guess none of these geniuses have ever heard of a chain of custody.

At this point, I wonder who hasn't handled the hard drive.


Talitha

(6,579 posts)
14. If he got paid enough, he might be sitting on a beach somewhere - sipping a Mai Tai.
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 04:22 PM
Nov 2020

If they stiffed him though, who knows?

Warpy

(111,224 posts)
18. I just wonder where he'll resurface
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 05:38 PM
Nov 2020

I'm thinking Idaho, eastern Washington or Oregon, someplace he thinks his name won't be recognized, and he's probably right.

Or maybe he got paid in advance, and is lazing on a beach in Costa Rica, who knows?

Silly me, I really expected a better October Surprise than a story that even Pox News thought was too hinky to report.

samsingh

(17,594 posts)
20. i don't think anything was authentic about this stupid story
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 06:20 PM
Nov 2020

it hasn't been brought up after it didn't stick. And stupid ruddie the goulihani projected his own crimes like wanting to sleep with underage girls (see the Borat movie - i don't think he was tucking in his shirt).

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
27. Michael K Williams is so dope ...
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 11:11 PM
Nov 2020

Omar, Chalkie on Boardwalk Empire, and Atticus' dad on Lovecraft Country now ... that dude is always nails.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
25. Has anyone checked for him in the basement of the human trafficking pizzeria in Washington, DC?
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 07:59 PM
Nov 2020

My God these people are out of their minds.

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