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That isn’t a credible argument. Why would Hunter Biden, whose dad is running for President, leave his laptop at a Trump-supporting discount computer repair shop without paying with (supposedly) incriminating emails on it? It’s so convoluted... it only makes sense if you wanted to fabricate cover for illegally hacking someone’s data (or more likely, modified and/or falsified data) and releasing it. As it is, the computer repair shop doesn’t own copyright of the PII and has no right to release it.

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He's left valuable stuff before. He left his wallet and a crack pipe in a rental car that he returned. Some people are just forgetful.

Aside from the leak, it's also not the loss that it would be for most of us. He's rich. He had some sort of iCloud backup thing (sorry not a Mac user) to restore all the data, so he wasn't missing anything. Picking up an old laptop wouldn't be worthwhile if a replacement arrived before the old one was repaired.

The loss is that he left (supposedly) incriminating data on a laptop. That is incredibly valuable no matter how rich he supposedly is. It's just not a credible argument.

(And again, note that the repair shop owner never saw who dropped off the laptop. He just inferred it was Hunter Biden because there was apparently a Beau Biden sticker on the laptop.)

Have you ever interacted over a period of time with a crack addict?

Crackhead does not think the same way or act in any sort of reasonable manner. Well sometimes they do and then next day they break into a house crack a woman on the head killing her and get put into prison. While having enough money in the bank to stay high for years. It does not make sense but that is what one former classmate of mine did.

None of it surprising in any way.

This “(supposedly) incriminating data” is incredibly valuable and (presumably incriminating) circumstantial evidence of illegal drug use is not?

Why would you smoke crack when you know the navy would drug test you?

Why would you knock up a stripper while cheating on your dead brothers widow who you were also dating?

How the contents of that laptop made their way to the news is a bizarre story. But that dude also made some bizarre decisions.

> Why would you smoke crack when you know the navy would drug test you?

Because you are addicted.

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