{"id":1495590,"date":"2022-05-28T08:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495590"},"modified":"2022-05-28T08:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T12:15:57","slug":"hack-journos-at-daily-beast-apologize-to-hunter-biden-laptop-repairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hack-journos-at-daily-beast-apologize-to-hunter-biden-laptop-repairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack Journos at \u201cDaily Beast\u201d Apologize to Hunter Biden Laptop Repairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhack-journos-at-daily-beast-apologize-to-hunter-biden-laptop-repairman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495590&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Daily Beast has issued an apology to the Delaware computer repairman who acquired Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop for wrongly claiming in a past story that the computer was \u201cstolen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The apology to John Paul Mac Isaac appeared in a Wednesday editor\u2019s note attached to a story the Daily Beast published in Dec. 2020 alleging the laptop was pilfered, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/daily-beast-apologizes-john-paul-mac-isaac-hunter-biden-laptop?intcmp=tw_fnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fox News<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop as \u2018stolen.\u2019 We have removed that word, and we apologize to Mr. Mac Isaac for the error,\u201d the editor\u2019s note reads. <\/p>\n<p>Isaac, 45, was left with the infamous laptop after Hunter Biden abandoned it at his shop in 2019. The repairman came to legally own the laptop after the president\u2019s son neglected to ever pick it up.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, The Post reported that the device contained a trove full of emails that detailed how Hunter Biden used his political leverage in his shady overseas business dealings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/hunter-biden-337.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>John Paul Mac Isaac, 45, was left with the infamous laptop after Hunter Biden abandoned it at his shop in 2019.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by ANGELA WEISS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/hunter-biden-339.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/hunter-biden-339.jpg\" alt=\"Disturbing images such as this one were found on Hunter Biden&#039;s laptop, which was abandoned at a repair shop.\" class=\"wp-image-22448579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/hunter-biden-339.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1023 1023w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/hunter-biden-339.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=682 682w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/hunter-biden-339.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=341 341w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/hunter-biden-339.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Disturbing images such as this one were found on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, which was abandoned at a repair shop.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Daily Beast\u2019s apology to Isaac came after the repairman <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/03\/repairman-who-revealed-hunter-biden-laptop-sues-schiff-cnn-politico-beast\/\">filed a multimillion-dollar defamation suit<\/a> earlier this month against the publication, along with CNN,  Politico and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, claiming they falsely accused him of peddling Russian disinformation, causing him to lose his business.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if The Daily Beast\u2019s apology was tied to any deal with the suit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast has issued an apology to the Delaware computer repairman who acquired Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop for wrongly claiming in a past story that the computer was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}