A lawyer for former President Trump aide Garrett Ziegler told the Daily Caller what he thinks of the latest legal developments surrounding President Joe Biden's embattled son Hunter.

bob tylerpresident and general counsel of the faith and freedom advocacy group, and one of the attorneys representing Ziegler, believes in Biden's federal taxes. indictment In California, the Justice Department's review of Hunter Biden's laptop archives strengthens Ziegler's argument that the case against him should be dismissed. (Related: FBI agents find cocaine in gun pouch used by Hunter Biden, prosecutors say)

Hunter Biden accused Ziegler of computer fraud in September. Marco PoloI created something that is publicly available database Contains the contents of Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop archive.

Read the lawsuit:

“Since approximately December 2020, Defendant Ziegler, Defendant ICU, and their 'team' of volunteers and independent contractors have accessed computer data that they do not own or that they claim to have; Countless hours have been spent tampering with, manipulating, tampering with, copying, and damaging. “It was obtained by hacking Plaintiff's iPhone data and reviewing a copy of the hard drive of what they claim is Plaintiff's 'laptop' computer,” Biden said. lawsuit claims.

his lawsuit The defendant acknowledges that “the exact manner in which Defendant Ziegler obtained Plaintiff's data remains unclear,” and cites news reports and Ziegler's past interviews as evidence. The complaint accuses Ziegler of refusing to hand over data for review by Biden's team.

“Everything that's going on is helpful to some degree. In our case, it's helpful in terms of validating what the ultimate defense is. At the end of the day, what is this case about? “It's an effort to censor investigative reporters, an effort to silence them, but investigative reporters have First Amendment rights,” Tyler said in an interview with the Caller.

“Whether it's the Justice Department, whether it's IRS officials, whether it's the California lawsuit, whether it's the potential contempt charges against Hunter Biden for not appearing in Congress, there are new Every time a filing is filed, all of this highlights the fact that this is an important issue of public interest, and this filing itself is a sign that our investigative reporters, our clients, have a lot to say about these topics. “It supports our defense that we have a First Amendment right to write and provide information publicly,” Tyler added.

Special Counsel David Weiss and his team filed multiple lawsuits. response behavior On Tuesday, he pushed back against Biden's efforts to have three federal firearms charges against him dismissed in Delaware.in response motion In response to Biden's claims of selective prosecution, a Justice Department prosecutor confirmed that Hunter Biden's laptop archives had been examined by federal investigators. (Related: House Republicans to issue new subpoena to Hunter Biden)

Read the motion:

“In August 2019, IRS and FBI agents obtained a search warrant for the defendant's Apple iCloud account for tax violations. 2 In response to that warrant, in September 2019, Apple “I created backups of data from various electronic devices that I was using,” the complaint states.

“Investigators subsequently obtained an Apple MacBook Pro that the defendant had left behind at a computer store. A search warrant was also obtained for his laptop, and the search results largely overlapped with information investigators had already obtained from Apple. .”

Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty in October to federal firearms charges, which could carry a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. felony crime.

IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley provided similar details to the House Ways and Means Committee when testifying about Hunter Biden's criminal investigation in May.

“In October 2019, the FBI became aware that a repair shop was storing a laptop purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden and that the laptop may contain evidence of a crime. FBI verified its authenticity in November 2019 by matching the device number to Hunter Biden's Apple iCloud ID,” Shapley said. testified.

“When the FBI acquired this device in December 2019, we notified the IRS that it may contain evidence of tax crimes,” he added. (Related: House Republicans release report detailing how Justice Department gave Hunter Biden 'special treatment' during investigation)

Ziegler is motion to dismiss Mr. Biden filed suit in December, alleging lack of jurisdiction, failure to state a claim of computer fraud and seeking to limit Mr. Ziegler's free speech rights.

Read the motion to dismiss:

“Plaintiffs' challenge is primarily premised on a report the defendants prepared on Hunter Biden as part of their mission to investigate foreign compromises within the government. relied on copies of files from Biden's laptop that have been widely circulated since the public became aware of them. This court should dismiss plaintiff's case for the following reasons.'' It begins and explains each reason why the case should be dismissed. A public hearing on the motion is scheduled to be held in February.

Marco Polo wrote a lengthy report on all the information contained in Hunter Biden's laptop archives. Republicans such as Wisconsin Sen. ron johnson Possession of a publicly available copy of the report.

“My client has performed an incredible public service to the great people of the United States by making this available to the public, and the fact that it has been made available to the public is a great honor to the Department of Justice. I think it forced the Department of Justice to act. It also helped Congress have the fortitude to act,” Tyler said.

House Republicans have launched an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden over his alleged role in his son's overseas dealings. House Republicans said in a September memo that the Biden family and their associates received more than $24 million from foreign sources over about five years. (Related: Joe Biden's lead was 'off the table' during Hunter Biden investigation, IRS whistleblower testifies)

The laptop hard drive was the first report The New York Post reported this ahead of the 2020 presidential election. Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's former lawyer, provided the Post with a copy of the hard drive. Giuliani distributed the hard drives to numerous journalists and news outlets. Tyler said Ziegler eventually obtained a copy of the laptop's hard drive for himself. (Related: These are the biggest lies Joe Biden told about Hunter's promotion of foreign influence)

Hunter Biden's lawsuit against Ziegler alleges that the laptop archives were manipulated before receiving copies of the hard drives from Giuliani and conservative media personalities.

The complaint also accuses Ziegler of illegally accessing and manipulating data on Hunter Biden's iCloud backup server.Marco Polo's Website View text messages from Biden's iPhone backup. Tyler told the caller that the only change Ziegler made to the data was to check whether the pornographic content in the archives on Biden's laptop was suitable for viewing.

“My client did not manipulate the data to change facts or statements or misrepresent anything. Our client did not manipulate any of the content related to the photo to avoid distributing pornographic material. We only censored the section,” Tyler said.

“When we challenge our client that there are federal and state litigation causes and that is primary, he obtained the laptop illegally. Our client never obtained the laptop. “There was a copy of the laptop on the memory drive that was created by the store owner,” Tyler explained.

“From what I understand, he gave a copy of the information on the memory drive to Rudy Giuliani, which was passed on to a number of media outlets and reporters, including our client Garrett Ziegler. It also included.”

Mr. Biden has filed a similar lawsuit against Mr. Giuliani over the distribution of hard drives, and Mr. Biden is listed as a creditor on Mr. Giuliani's bankruptcy filing.

The contents of Biden's laptop archive have been verified by the Daily Caller News Foundation, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other news organizations.Facebook and Twitter censored New York Post article report On your laptop for the 2020 presidential election.

“State and federal law requires that the laptop itself must have been physically obtained and manipulated illegally. Second, everything there is accurate, so there is no manipulation…information The email was unchanged, except for a few highlights here and there to reflect some of the content, but nothing changed in content or meaning,'' Tyler added.

Hunter Biden filed the lawsuit in the Central District of California, where he faces nine federal tax charges for allegedly failing to pay more than $1 million worth of taxes over a four-year period. His attorney, Abby Lowell, said: to cause Allegations of political pressure from Republicans on Weiss. He declined to comment.

“It definitely helps us,” Tyler said of the California charges. “This just shows the great public interest that this has implications not just for Hunter Biden, but potentially for the president himself.”

He pleaded not guilty to the tax charges at his arraignment on January 11.