FBI Didn't Destroy Hunter Biden's Laptop

Misbar’s investigation found no evidence that the alleged report from the FBI destroying the laptop holds any merit. As Misbar has previously discussed, Hunter Biden’s laptop was held as a “smoking gun” by Republican officials during last year’s Presidential election. After it was reportedly left at a computer repair shop by Hunter Biden himself, former President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani promised that incriminating evidence was to be found on the hard drive. Giuliani turned the hard drive over to authorities to investigate; aside from opening an investigation in December, no official updates have been given on the story.

This all changed when US MagsPress posted a story that the FBI admitted to accidentally destroying the laptop. Users reposted the Twitter story over 2500 times and it continues to be spread on right-wing “free speech” platform Gab.

Reading the article gives clues to the high likelihood that it is satire. The article reports that “FBI agent Joe Barron told the Washington Queefblaster Daily…” The aforementioned newspaper does not exist. Other phrases and terms in the article speak to a disbelief in the Hunter Biden laptop story being anything more than fiction in the first place, such as “other federal representatives defended the tale by noting that is is both more realistic than Rudy Giuliani’s explanation of the events leading into the controversy, as well as still being a better love story than Twilight.” The article also states the unlikely destruction as being perpetrated by Michael J. Fox and Kelsey Grammar.

Citing no sources or evidence, the biggest clue is perhaps the first line of the article: “In what sounds for all the world like a slapstick display...designed for a satirical network of Trump supporter-enraging Facebook pages.”

With failure of any other news report whatsoever and rhetoric supporting a satirical bent, Misbar guides against continued sharing of this as a news story.