Hunter Biden has suggested he never would have left his laptop at a small computer repair shop in Delaware, but a document bearing his signature appears to contradict this claim.

When asked by Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz while giving birth to her first son, Hunter Biden claimed she intended to take her broken computer to a regular Apple store to have it repaired. Wednesday interview With members of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. But a receipt for work done by Mac Shop, a small repair shop in Delaware that turned over the contents of a laptop to the FBI in 2019, bears a resemblance to Hunter Biden's signature on other unearthed documents. Signed.

Mac Store charged Hunter Biden $85 to repair his laptop. according to Submit a copy of the receipt originally obtained and reported by the New York Post. The signature on that document is very similar to Hunter Biden's DocuSign signature on the document. business agreement This concerns Oneida Holdings LLC, an entity created in 2017 to facilitate transactions involving Hunter Biden, U.S. partners, and Chinese interests. (Related article: Joe Biden's brother changed story about dealings with China after lawmakers showed him receipts, sources say)

A close-up of Hunter Biden's DocuSign signature on a 2017 business agreement related to Oneida Holdings. (Screenshot, image via Republican Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley)

Wayne A. Burns is a retired FBI counterintelligence officer with extensive experience in signature analysis. Said Just the News that the signature on the laptop repair receipt matches signatures on other documents signed by Hunter Biden.

“Have you ever dropped your laptop at a repair shop?” Gaetz asked his eldest son, according to a transcript of Wednesday's interview released by lawmakers Thursday.

“I dropped my laptop at an Apple repair store literally three blocks from my office in Washington, D.C. If I was going to get my laptop repaired, I would have walked down the street and dropped it there,” Hunter Biden responded. , revealed. He was talking about the “Georgetown Apple Store.”

“My question is about Delaware. Have you ever dropped a laptop in Delaware?” So Gates asked.

“The largest Apple store in America, the highest-grossing and largest Apple store in the United States is located in Christiana Mall. If I was trying to drop off my laptop — I don't remember doing that, but if I were to drop off my laptop… If I had, my eldest son said, he would have gone to the Apple Store, which is seven minutes away from his parents' house.

After Hunter Biden later said he had no recollection of leaving his computer behind at a repair shop in Delaware, archived contents of the laptop showed the exchange between him and a Secret Service agent in Los Angeles. He claimed that it contained fabricated content, including fake conversations. Hotels in Angeles.

“There's a lot of different things out there that are either faked, hacked, stolen or 100% manipulated,” Hunter Biden told lawmakers about his laptop. Although the Department of Justice (DOJ) acknowledged the authenticity of the laptop's data and claimed in a court filing that Hunter Biden actually placed the laptop in the Mac Store, Internal Revenue Service whistleblower Gary Shapley testified in May 2023 that the FBI knew about the data. He will be real as early as November 2019.

The FBI then advised social media platforms that the laptop data could be a foreign influence operation, and social media companies posted on their platforms the New York Post's original 2020 article. It encouraged the article to be effectively censored. Fifty-one former U.S. intelligence officials also signed an open letter characterizing the laptop and its contents as inauthentic and a possible plot by Russian intelligence.

On “NPR Public Editor” I wrote a newsletter Pointer's Kelly McBride, a senior editor at NPR, explained that the outlet declined to cover the laptop story ahead of the 2020 election because: .[did not] You don't want to waste your time on a story that isn't really a story, and you don't want to waste your listener's or reader's time on a story that's just a distraction. ”

Hunter Biden says in sworn testimony that he cannot recall information about at least 29 transactions in which Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma paid him large sums of money to make the company more “Western-like.” he told the lawmakers.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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