{"id":1762956,"date":"2022-12-05T06:04:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762956"},"modified":"2022-12-05T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:49:08","slug":"hunter-biden-whistleblower-says-hes-been-vindicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-whistleblower-says-hes-been-vindicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden Whistleblower Says He&#8217;s Been Vindicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-whistleblower-says-hes-been-vindicated%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=1762956&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 former owner of the computer repair shop who blew the whistle about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop said he\u2019s been \u201cvindicated\u201d now that Twitter owner Elon Musk released the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/02\/elon-musk-releases-twitters-files-on-censorship-of-post\/\">explosive report<\/a> on how the social media giant censored <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/14\/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad\/\">The Post\u2019s reporting<\/a> on the disgraced first son\u2019s shady overseas business dealings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful. I don\u2019t know how many people know but I basically was financially ruined by Twitter last year. I tried to save my career because Twitter labeled my actions hacking,\u201d John Paul Mac Isaac\u00a0said in an interview Sunday on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6316564441112\"> Fox News,<\/a> noting that he sued the company for defamation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo obviously watching Elon release this material Friday night was very exciting for me because what I felt like I knew the whole time was true. And I feel vindicated,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/john-paul-mac-221204-76.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/john-paul-mac-221204-76.jpg\" alt=\"John Paul Mac Isaac, who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden&#039;s laptop, said he has been \" vindicated \/><\/a><figcaption>John Paul Mac Isaac, who blew the whistle on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop, said he has been \u201cvindicated\u201d by Elon Musk\u2019s releasing a report on how Twitter suppressed The Post\u2019s story about it.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">James Keivom<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He also said that things could have turned out differently for him and his legal challenges had Musk owned Twitter earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he had bought Twitter during the lawsuit, I think things would have worked out a little bit better for me. But you know, it is what it is. And I\u2019m grateful that the truth is coming out now and that I\u2019m vindicated,\u201d Mac Isaac said,\u00a0joking that if Musk wants free tech support, \u201che\u2019s got it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, released through journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/03\/who-is-matt-taibbi-journalist-behind-hunter-biden-twitter-files\/\">Matt Taibbi <\/a>on Friday a damning report on how the top workers at the company suppressed The Post\u2019s expose on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop in October 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/musk-twitter-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/musk-twitter-04.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk released a report on Friday detailing the internal deliberations on hos the company decided to censor The Post&#039;s story about Hunter Biden&#039;s laptop.\" class=\"wp-image-24890246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/musk-twitter-04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/musk-twitter-04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/musk-twitter-04.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Elon Musk released a report on Friday detailing the internal deliberations on hos the company decided to censor The Post\u2019s story about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/elon-musk-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/elon-musk-02.jpg\" alt=\"A photo illustration showing Elon Musk&#039;s Twitter profile.\" class=\"wp-image-24890240\" width=\"624\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/elon-musk-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1245 1248w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/elon-musk-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=934 936w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/elon-musk-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=624 624w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/elon-musk-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=311 312w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/elon-musk-02.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The whistleblower said that things could have turned out differently for him and his legal challenges had Musk owned Twitter earlier.\u00a0<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The decision to censor the story was made at the \u201chighest levels of the company\u201d and used the rationale that the report violated Twitter\u2019s \u201chacked\u00a0materials\u201d policy \u2013 a conclusion that a number of insiders questioned, Taibbi\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n<p>Mac Isaac said the hacking theory doesn\u2019t add up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI took possession of the laptop on Dec. 9, and with that they took all my notes, all my information that I had provided them, and so they had ample time to review that data and realize that it wasn\u2019t Russia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/john-paul-mac-fox-221204-81.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/john-paul-mac-fox-221204-81.jpg\" alt=\"John Paul Mac Isaac.\" class=\"wp-image-24890244\" width=\"320\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/john-paul-mac-fox-221204-81.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=637 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/john-paul-mac-fox-221204-81.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=478 480w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/john-paul-mac-fox-221204-81.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=320 320w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/john-paul-mac-fox-221204-81.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=159 160w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/john-paul-mac-fox-221204-81.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>John Paul Mac Isaac.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Fox News<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ten months had elapsed since the FBI took the laptop from Mac Isaac\u2019s Delaware computer shop in December 2019 to October 2020 when The Post published its report on Hunter Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I watched the internet shutdown on Oct. 14, The New York Post came out with the story at 6:30 in the morning. By nine o\u2019clock, you couldn\u2019t find any discussion of it on the internet,\u201d Mac Isaac said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s not something that happens naturally. That\u2019s something that\u2019s coordinated and set up so that when the story broke, they were going to be ready, they could flick a switch and they could shut it down,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd that\u2019s exactly what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop at the Wilmington, Del., repair shop in April 2019, and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/08\/11\/hunter-biden-laptop-repairman-says-fbi-threatened-him-to-stay-silent\/\">Mac Isaac said<\/a> he turned over its hard drive to the FBI. Months later, he got in touch with Rudy Giuliani, who was at the time a lawyer for then-President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani provided a copy of the hard drive to The Post. <\/p>\n<p>Mac Isaac\u2019s suit against Twitter was dismissed, but he has <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/03\/repairman-who-revealed-hunter-biden-laptop-sues-schiff-cnn-politico-beast\/\">litigation pending <\/a>against a number of other people and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>He said through the lawsuits he has filed and his book<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/06\/mac-shop-owner-john-mac-isaac-reveals-night-he-met-hunter-biden\/\">, \u201cAmerican Injustice: My Battle to Expose the Truth,\u201d<\/a> he hopes \u2018the truth will come out\u201d about what really happened with Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and \u201cI can get on with my life.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former owner of the computer repair shop who blew the whistle about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop said he\u2019s been \u201cvindicated\u201d now that Twitter owner Elon Musk released the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1762959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762956","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}