A team is preparing to defend Hunter Biden against an expected onslaught of investigations by House Republicans.
Allies of the president’s son gathered for a private strategy session last September in California where they discussed going after Hunter’s accusers and critics with defamation lawsuits, according the Washington Post.
Hunter’s attorney and friend Kevin Morris suggested at the meeting the suits be filed against Fox News, Eric Trump and Rudy Giuliani, along with a probe into the repairman who handed over his laptop.
Claimants sue for defamation if they believe someone has damaged their reputation, with it unclear what Hunter has taken issue with in coverage of his shady past.
Morris told the group he was crucial for Hunter’s camp to be more aggressive and also ‘outlined extensive research on two potential witnesses against Hunter Biden – spurned business partner Tony Bobulinsky and computer repairman John Paul Mac Isaac, who turned over his laptop to the FBI.
It comes amid an ongoing investigation into Hunter’s finances and allegations of illegal business dealing in China and Ukraine that remain in the public eye as Twitter answers why it suppressed the story about his laptop leak.
Hunter Biden wasn’t at the meeting, but called into the discussion via video.
David Brock, a well-known liberal activist and Clinton family defender, who attended the meeting, was planning for a new group, Facts First USA, which focused on fighting the looming House GOP investigations, The Post reported.
‘They feel that there is a whole counter-narrative missing because of the whole Hunter-hater narrative out there,’ Brock said.
‘What we really got into was more the meat of it, the meat of what a response would look like.’
The Washington Post reported that there were two competing approaches laid out at the strategy session.
The first is to be more aggressive, which includes going after Hunter Biden’s critics, including Eric and Rudy.
The plan also involves a ‘team of researchers’ working with attorneys Joshua A Levy, who will run interference with House probes, and Chris Clark, who is dealing with the federal investigations.
The other approach is to have Hunter Biden keep his head down, which is reportedly the approach the White House prefers as it tries to argue he is a private citizen – meaning an ‘inappropriate target’ for Republicans.
But the more Hunter is in the public eye, the more the GOP will argue they have justification for coming after him, the Post reported.
‘Some involved in these efforts argue that Hunter Biden and Morris should stay out of the limelight so Democrats can focus on painting the Republican investigations as a partisan political exercise,’ the Washington Post article states.
‘No one thinks this strategy of putting Hunter Biden front and center is smart,’ said one Democrat involved in the broader effort. … ‘No one, including the White House.’
John Paul Mac Isaac, the ex-computer shop owner who alerted feds of incriminating content on Hunter’s laptop in 2020, said earlier this month he’s ‘not surprised’ that the New York Times and other ‘liberal’ media has yet to cover recent revelations aired by Elon Musk in his so-called ‘Twitter files.’
He spoke to DailyMail.com two days after Musk shared a trove of emails published by journalist Matt Taibbi on whether Twitter execs attempted to suppress reporting on the story in the run up to the 2020 election – all at the behest of the Biden campaign.
The barrage of tweets, titled the ‘Twitter Files’, saw the site’s new CEO accuse his predecessors of engaging in collusion with Biden’s team – publishing internal emails from the company that supported those claims.
At the time, The Times refused to report on the scandal, calling the claims ‘unsubstantiated’ – a stance it has since maintained even after’s Musk’s massive evidence dump.
Now, Mac Isaac, the owner of the since-shuttered Delaware Mac Shop where an ‘inebriated’ Hunter brought the laptop in 2019, says the paper’s decision to abstain from filing a story is likely ‘its master’s bidding’ – with the master being the Biden Administration.
Speaking to DailyMail.com Sunday, 45-year-old Mac Isaac said he feels ‘vindicated’ following Musk’s expose, after he was forced to shutter his 10-year-old store after coming forward with the laptop claims in 2020.
At the time, Mac Issacs unsuccessfully sued Twitter for defamation after execs called his claims inaccurate, forcing him pay $175,000 to cover the social media giant’s legal fees.
‘I feel vindicated,’ the former store owner, who has since penned a successful book about the ordeal, said. ‘My only wish is that Elon had bought Twitter during my lawsuit.
