For daring to report on Hunter Biden’s scandalous overseas dealings, the New York Post was maligned by snooty liberals who see nothing right about the right. They accused America’s oldest paper of spreading a “conspiracy theory” or ”Russian disinformation.”
As it turned out the black sheep of the Biden family eventually acknowledged – after his old man seemed safely White House bound – that the FBI is looking at him as a potential tax cheat.
The worst sustained by the Post – famous for its headlines, such as the 1983 beaut “Headless body found in topless bar” – was unjustified hits on its reputation and a temporary social media shunning.
But the man who put this train in motion has suffered far worse from the Twitterati.
In an interview with Breitbart News, John Paul Mac Isaac said his life and his business have been destroyed by the fallout of the accusations garnered by the Post’s reporting. Consequently, Isaac has filed a $500 million lawsuit against Twitter.
Isaac owns the Delaware computer repair where Hunter Biden abandoned his laptop. He was the one who discovered the files that indicated Joe “Big Guy” Biden might be caught up in Hunter’s schemes to cash in on the family name with foreign powers.
Isaac recalled that Hunter lugged in three machines. The third was the most critical. Hunter had requested Isaac recover the data on it, and so he performed “surgery” on it.
Said Isaac, “I became concerned over some of the content I was viewing. I became more concerned a couple of weeks later when his father announced his candidacy for president, and as the summer progressed and the machine was abandoned, the gravity of the situation grew, because I started recognizing names and events and places that I had seen on the laptop.”
When the Post reported on all this, Twitter walled it off from the world, claiming it was “hacked” material. That ricocheted onto Isaac. As Breitbart noted, “Twitter’s censorship amounted to a framing of Mac Isaac as a hacker.”
“What Twitter did went beyond censorship,” Isaac’s lawyer, Brian Della Rocca, told Breitbart.
“It was not hacked materials. John Paul accessed those materials when he legally owned them, because it was part of abandoned property. So they made a mistake there. The fact that they even decided to label it is a problem. It had direct harm. There’s no way that you can say that something is hacked materials and not directly infer that the person who provided that information is a hacker.”
Twitter’s declaration “crushed John Paul’s business,” the lawyer continued. “John Paul has been through a horrible situation when he was just trying to do the right thing, and Twitter really added to the harm that he has experienced.”
According to Della Rocca, Isaac had to close his business. He also “started getting bad Yelp reviews, calls to the shop, death threats, essentially people trying to destroy his business.”
“That’s essentially what happened,” Della Rocca added. “He had to close up the business. It’s no longer active and he is now 46 years old trying to figure out what the next thing to do is when you’ve been an (Apple) Mac specialist for more than 25 years.”
After Hunter Biden ‘fessed up to the FBI probe, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, discussed that and the Post’s reporting within the context of a report on Hunter that he prepared with Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
“Look at what Twitter and Facebook did to the Hunter Biden news,” Grassley said in a statement.
“Simply said, they interfered in the election and gave the Biden campaign a multi-million dollar in-kind donation courtesy of their blatant and unforgivable censorship. My fellow Americans, let us never forget what Twitter and Facebook did during the 2020 election”
Grassley added, “It’s a complete outrage at the way the liberal media used its power to cover up facts relating to Hunter Biden and the Biden family yet ran story after story with false information about the Russia investigation into (President Donald) Trump and the credibility of the Steele Dossier.”
“Based on all the facts known to date, Joe Biden has a lot of explaining to do. … The American taxpayer deserves nothing less,” Grassley concluded.
Joe Biden has said he will not interfere in the FBI’s investigation of his son. Somehow that might not be necessary. Like Twitter’s frequent unplugging of conservative media, it just kinda disappears on its own.