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The former computer shop owner who came into possession of Hunter Biden’s laptop told investigative reporter John Solomon that the FBI had a strange reaction to the material that was on the computer — including what the man says was evidence of potential money laundering.
The first agent his family contacted told his father to “lawyer up and get out” of his office, the man said.
In an interview Solomon reported on Just the News on Tuesday, John Paul Mac Isaac said when the FBI finally did want to look at the contents of the MacBook, agents seemed more concerned about possible child pornography — including whether or not he had looked at it.
Isaac came into possession of the laptop after a man identifying himself as Hunter Biden dropped the computer off for repairs at Isaac’s Delaware shop in 2019.
Biden reportedly signed a form that acknowledged the laptop would become the property of the store if he didn’t pick it up in 90 days.
Unsurprisingly, he didn’t pick it up, and when Isaac looked at the contents of the hard drive, he says he found what Just the News described as “evidence of large, suspicious foreign transactions involving the Biden family and Ukraine, China and Russia.”
“I have no doubt in my mind” it was Hunter Biden’s laptop, Isaac said. “Probably about within 30 minutes of performing the data transfer, I had been able to verify that the person that was in the shop was indeed the person that was on the computer and the owner of the computer.”
Isaac told Just the News he asked his father, an Air Force veteran, for advice on how to proceed. His father, in turn, went to an FBI office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a copy of the contents of the hard drive, Solomon wrote.
“He had the copy of the drive as well as the copy of the signed authorization,” Isaac said. “So that if there was a legal question on how this was obtained, here’s a document that proves it.
“And the FBI agent that he spoke to refused to give his name and then said, ‘you better lawyer up and get out of my office.’”
The FBI eventually became interested in the computer, although perhaps not for the reasons one might think.
Isaac told Solomon he was eventually approached by an FBI agent in Delaware who specialized in child exploitation crimes.
“They really didn’t show any interest in any of the money,” Isaac told Solomon. “They were more interested in why I was afraid, and not necessarily what was on the on the drive.”
Isaac said “the first thing they asked me was if I had seen any child pornography, and you know, I’m not wanting to look at another man’s porn. So I generally wasn’t, it wasn’t what I was looking for. When I sat down to look for stuff, I really focused on Ukraine. What I casually saw when I was doing the data transfer, sure, there was porn.”
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“Then they asked why I was concerned,” he continued. “So they never brought up money laundering at all, which that seems kind of odd. But they wanted to hear my concerns. I explained to them that there are powers foreign and domestic that are involved. There’s a lot of money involved.”
Isaac said it was the material about Ukraine on the computer that got him to contact the FBI, particularly with then-President Donald Trump’s potential impeachment in the headlines — along with talk about Burisma, the Ukrainian energy concern that paid Hunter Biden $50,000 a month to sit on its board.
Isaac told Fox News he was frustrated that the FBI stopped contacting him about the laptop and believed they were going to spike the investigation.