The laptop was real: DOJ confirms in new court filing it indeed belonged to Hunter Biden

WASHINGTON (TND) — Hunter Biden’s surprise appearance on Capitol Hill on Jan. 10 may have stunned GOP lawmakers, but in the end, they got what they wanted - an agreement that he appears in private to answer questions related to their investigation into his business deals.

A deposition is now scheduled for Feb. 28.

“He’s going to be asked a lot of questions about China and Romania. What exactly did you do to receive the millions and millions of dollars that our enemies around the world sent you?"Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said in an interview on Fox News' "Hannity" Friday.

Comer said members will also zero in on what, if any, role Joe Biden played, which is the subject of their impeachment effort.

In the same interview on Fox, Comer also pointed to a Feb. 7, 2020 email from Hunter Biden’s lawyer Kevin Morris, which detailed risk "personally and politically" if his tax returns weren’t completed.

The political problem was that Hunter Biden hadn’t paid his taxes and the IRS was fixing to cart him off, and that would’ve been very damaging to Joe Biden’s Presidency," Comer explained.

We now know that email came less than two months after the FBI seized a laptop from the computer repair shop in mid-December 2019, which was ten months before a story was published in the New York Post about its contents, entitled "Biden’s secret emails" which was published on Oct. 14, 2020.

Five days later, a letter signed by 51 former intelligence officials was released, which said those “emails purportedly belonging to Vice President Biden’s son Hunter" had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

In an interview on CBS "Sunday Morning," Hunter Biden was directly asked, "Was that your laptop?"

For real, I don’t know," he responded. "There could be a laptop that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was Russian intelligence.

But the Department of Justice now, for the first time, has confirmed the laptop was Hunter's,an Apple MacBook Pro that he had left at a computer repair shop.

The Jan. 16, 2024 court filing from special counsel David Weiss, opposing Hunter Biden's motion to dismiss the case against him, states:

A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop and the results of the search were largely duplicative of information investigators had already obtained from Apple.

Now, the slow drip of information from before the last Presidential campaign is continuing to make its way into this one.