Morris: Hunter Biden Running Wild Disinformation PR Push in Giuliani Lawsuit

“Plaintiff’s data was manipulated, altered and damaged before it was copied and sent to Defendants; and Defendants’ illegal hacking and tampering has involved further alterations and damage to the data to a degree that is presently unknown to Plaintiff,” the lawsuit claims.

It also claims Giuliani keeps a copy of the hard drive on him to manipulate at any given moment, as needed. (If you are reading that in disbelief, the exact words are, “[Giuliani] apparently carries [the hard drive] around with him on a daily basis, presumably so that he can continuously access, tamper with and manipulate the data whenever and wherever he desires.”)

According to the “map” reported by Devine, this appears to be part of Hunter’s team’s public relations effort to claim that Hunter’s private information was somehow “hacked” or “cloned,” among other claims to muddy the story of the device’s chain of custody, Hunter Biden’s role in it, and its contents.

“The counternarrative Morris is mounting on Hunter’s behalf has nothing to do with the damning contents of the laptop, which have been repeatedly verified as authentic by multiple media organizations since The Post broke the story in October 2020,” Devine wrote in May of last year. “Instead, Hunter’s team is attempting to sow confusion about how the laptop became public … and claiming his private information was somehow stolen, ‘hacked’ or ‘cloned.’ But the chain of custody of that laptop has been well established by The Post.”

The lawsuit makes another claim, that Hunter “never authorized or consented to any access of his data by any Defendant at any time or for any purpose.”

Well, that’s also new, because at the time the Post did its original reporting on the laptop, when Hunter, via his lawyer at the time, George Mesires, was reached for comment, the Post received back a barely coherent response seeming to claim the reporting is a “conspiracy theory” peddled by Giuliani.

“He has been pushing widely discredited conspiracy theories about the Biden family, openly relying on actors tied to Russian intelligence,” Mesires said of Giuliani at the time, refusing to address the substance or content of the reporting.

Rudy Giuliani speaks outside the Fulton County jail, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Hunter wasn’t telling Giuliani to stop accessing his computer — he was denying the computer exists and calling the reporting on it “Russian intelligence!”

So, that part doesn’t really hang together, either.

This lawsuit would have you believe that Rudy Giuliani, who is nearly 80, devised and executed an elaborate operation to hack into Hunter Biden’s Mac, alter its contents so precisely as to trick a billion-dollar news corporation and its team of lawyers, and then the rest of the media in the years following, and to this day, continues to pursue this sinister plot, at any given moment, because he keeps the hard drive in his pocket.

Not only does this story make no sense, and contradict itself at various points, but it requires the audience to delete three years of reporting from their memory and, really, suspend rational function to presume 79-year-old Rudy has advanced, expert, almost other-worldly tech capabilities that would not even be seen in the CIA.

Based on those facts, perhaps this fantastical and confusing story isn’t really meant to hold up in court, but rather, to be just that, a fantastical and confusing story.