Hunter Biden has friends in high places.
Two Delaware prosecutors called by eldest son’s attorney to investigate Hunter’s infamous laptop have deep ties to the Biden family, while a senior DOJ official receiving a similar lawsuit is an Obama administration veteran and liberal think tanks, an analysis by La Posta. showed.
On other developments in laptop history:
- Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell has sought to retract his earlier admission that the laptop really belonged to his client.
- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dismissed calls to investigate the first child as a “delaying tactic” and promised lawmakers would “get to the bottom” of the computer secrets. An attorney for the auto repair shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, criticized Hunter Biden as “desperate” and trying to “blame everyone else for their actions.”
- Lowell sent a series of letters Wednesday evening calling for a criminal investigation into what happened to the laptop after it was abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019.
First state attorney general, Kathy Jennings, was among those asked to investigate those connected to the laptop, including Mac Isaac and former President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
Jennings, a Democrat who was elected state attorney in 2018, was nominated in 2011 by then-Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, Hunter’s late brother, to serve as a prosecutor in the state’s Department of Justice.
In 2019, despite many Democrats’ misgivings about Biden’s 2020 presidential bid, Jennings jumped on board the day the former vice president announced he would be seeking the White House.
“I have known Joe, Jill, and the Biden family for most of my life,” Jennings wrote in an inspiring Facebook post. “Joe is one of the kindest, most genuine people I’ve ever met… I choose Joe because no one understands better what it means to heal, and right now that’s what America needs.”
Even closer to the Biden family is Jennings’ deputy chief Alexander Mackler, who served as Joe Biden’s press secretary in his final months as a U.S. senator and Biden’s deputy attorney during his time as Barack Obama’s vice president. Mackler’s name also frequently appears on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
“Just finished a couple of hellish months in court,” Mackler wrote to Hunter on Oct.16, 2018, in a message with the subject “Hello”.
“Now that I have a chance to breathe, I was wondering what life is like on your side,” Mackler continued. “The last time you told me you were in Los Angeles. Call me some time so we can catch up. I love your brother.”
In Mackler’s last message to Hunter, dated Feb. 3, 2019, he wished his friend a happy birthday, adding, “I’ve lost track of time here. I hope you are fine. Call sometime.
Jennings’ office did not respond to The Post on Thursday when she was asked whether she would abstain from any possible investigation given her personal and professional ties to the Bidens.
Meanwhile, another letter from Lowell was addressed to the Justice Department’s top national security official, Matthew Olsen, who held several sensitive legal positions in the Obama-Biden administration, including general counsel to the National Security Agency and director of the Center National Counterterrorism, before leaving the government in 2014.
While in the private sector, Olsen was a member of two leftist think tanks, the Center for a New American Security and the Center for American Progress, and wrote a number of opinion pieces critical of Trump and his administration.
One such editorial, published by Time during the 2016 election campaign, had a provocative headline: “Why ISIS supports Donald Trump.”
When Biden named Olsen to head the Justice Department’s Homeland Security Division in May 2021, many Republican senators saw him as damaged property.
“While I appreciate Mr. Olsen’s former public service, he no longer has the credibility needed to fill this important role given the partisan nature of his post-administration writings,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said at the time. . “Institutions are only as good as the American public’s trust in them, and Mr. Olsen would further undermine public trust in America’s national security institutions.”
Olsen was ultimately confirmed in an almost partisan vote of 53-45.
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on Thursday when asked whether Olsen would play a role in any potential Hunter laptop investigation.
