The legal team representing Hunter Biden has decided to go on the offense for
a change.
And I am fascinated to see how this is gonna play out.
They have sent letters to federal prosecutors urging them to
pursue criminal investigations into those who accessed and
disseminated private information from the laptop that
Hunter Biden left behind at a repair shop in Delaware.
They also send letters to various right-wing media figures urging them
to retract some of their reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop story and
also issue an apology and the letter, of course,
is complete with a threat of a defamation lawsuit should they refuse to do so.
Now, Biden's recently hired lawyer,
Abbe Lowell sent lengthy letters to the Justice Department and
Delaware's Attorney General requesting investigations into people who were
involved in disseminating the data that was allegedly collected from the laptop.
Biden's lawyers claim that about a half-dozen people have violated various
statutes, including by making public restricted private information, accessing
and disseminating stolen property, and making false statements to Congress.
In another letter, Abbe Lowell wrote to the Internal Revenue Service
challenging the nonprofit status of Marco Polo,
a group that is run by Activist Garrett Ziegler.
Lowell provided 36 pages as evidence that the group is engaging in
political activity in violation of its nonprofit and tax-exempt status.
There are more details here Cenk but
curious what you think about this new strategy.
>> Yeah, I kind of like it.
Let's go on the office.
At first, I was a little skeptical because I thought, well,
you're gonna bring more attention to this, that's not overly helpful.
And my guess is that the Biden administration was, no, cuz theoretically,
Joe Biden is gonna run for president the next two years.
And this will mean that it's more in the news for the next couple of years.
I think I have a slight theory on why they decided to pull the trigger and
go in this direction instead of ignoring it or playing defense.
And it's that if the Democrats had held the House then
there wouldn't be hearings and so
then they could continue to try to ignore it and bring less media attention to it.
But since the Republicans were in the House,
they're gonna have nonstop hearings about it anyway.
So how much more attention could you add to it?
So they decided to fight back instead.
And look, my general philosophy is you should go on the offense and stay there.
>> I mean, I agree and it's so rare to hear anyone in
the Democratic side actually use the offense tactic.
It's usually just Republicans who do that.
And so look, I have more details about their legal strategy here.
Before I get to it though, just the kind of buttress your point about how
obsessed the right wing is with this Hunter Biden laptop story.
I should note that Fox Nation had done a mock
trial of Hunter Biden and it was hilarious.
So I feel like it's foreshadowing for what's to come for Republicans.
But nonetheless, let's take a quick look.
>> The judge was TV judge, Joe Brown.
There were two actual attorneys presenting arguments.
The entire time the judge and
the attorneys had to keep reminding you the viewer that this is a mock trial.
>> This is a mock trial.
It is not a real proceeding.
This mock trial.
>> I was also a really big fan of the defense.
This was the first thing he said.
>> He's smoking crack while he's awake, while he's asleep.
He's with prostitutes.
He's making amateur porn.
>> Now if I was mocked Hunter Biden, I would mock fire, my mock attorney.
Deliberations were pretty boring.
My main takeaway was the jury wasn't as swayed by Hunter Biden's picks as
the prosecution thought they'd be.
>> [INAUDIBLE] pictures did nothing for my decision.
>> The mock count one regarding Farah, the mock jury mock decided that the government
should mock investigate Hunter Biden.
But mock count two regarding bribery.
The mock jury decided that Hunter Biden was mocked innocent.
Even in Fox News's fantasy show trial, they can't get a guilty verdict.
>> No, I love it.
I love it, because honestly,
I'm not just dismissive of claims about Hunter Biden's laptop, right?
If there is any evidence of criminality that has
an impact on the American people, right?
If there is any proof of foreign government relationships
between Joe Biden, that's relevant to us, right?
Where's the evidence?
We haven't seen any of it.
I've seen endless nude photos of Hunter Biden, unfortunately, no offense.
I've seen all the salacious stuff.
Who cares?
Why do we care about this?
Hunter Biden isn't in government?
>> Yeah, so look, we're about to get to the craziest part.
I mean unbelievable.
But first, on your points, look, if the laptops or
anything showed that Hunter Biden got his dad to help in some
of his business dealings, you used the US government to do it.
That would be a very serious issue, okay?
And I would be 100% against Hunter Biden and Joe Biden that scenario.
But as we've told you before, the laptop actually shows Hunter Biden saying on
several occasions, we can't influence my dad, so we don't over-promise.
>> Exactly.
>> It actually on the substance of it exonerates him,
which goes towards the lawsuit.
Because I think the most important part of lawsuit is a suit against
Tucker Carlson of Fox news because they're saying, hey,
you said that we got paid $50,000 for connecting my dad etc, right?
And that is just verifiably false.
And so you're making it look like my dad and
I were corrupt when the laptop shows the exact opposite, okay?
That's a very serious thing.
When a guy with a three million-person audience every night, the top cable
show in the country goes and tells people this was a specific act of corruption,
and here's my specific evidence of it.
And that turns out that evidence is a total lie.
Yeah, you could be sued for that.
I mean look at the Dominion suit Fox News over there lies about the 2020
election and it's a multi-billion dollar lawsuit and
Fox News is reeling over that, they're actually super worried about that.
So on this, they might be a little worried and they should be.
>> Right, and they did send the letter to Tucker Carlson and Fox News and
they wrote, we demand that you immediately retract these statements by
spending a significant amount of airtime on such retraction.
And then he demanded apologies from Carlson and
other commentators including Fox's Sean Hannity who have made similar claims and
requested that Fox News respond in writing by Thursday, meaning today.
So unclear if they actually responded to it.
I wanna just quickly talk about Mac Isaac.
Mac Isaac is the person who ran the repair shop, who has made a name for himself.
Going on Fox News regularly to talk about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
So John Paul Mac Isaac is his full name and he's the one who
received the laptop from Hunter Biden in April of 2019.
So citing Mac Isaac's admissions that he reviewed some of
Hunter Biden's financial information on the laptop,
the lawyer said that he had no authority or permission to do so.
And they write quote, backing up Mr Biden's files for
any repair did not require Mr Mac Isaac to review the contents of such files.
Mr Biden did not consent to Mr Mac Isaac gaining access to the content
of those files in April of 2019 or at any other time.
So they are pursuing legal action against him as well or they're threatening to.
So I like it.
I mean, if they're gonna hit you with false allegations and
make it seem like you engaged in corruption and
you're just sitting back and taking it doesn't make sense to me.
>> 100%.
So number one, if they can prove it in a court of law,
Mac Isaac should definitely go to prison.
So when you hand in your laptop to get fixed anywhere, right?
Or your phone or anything like that, the guy has access to it in order to fix it,
gets past your passcode, etc, right?
That is a big trust that you're putting in that guy.
If he goes in and gets private pictures of you nude and publishes it online,
goes into your finances, and publishes that online,
there is no greater violation of trust and it is illegal.
So I don't know if there's a single prosecutor left in the country,
but this guy's not even among the elites.
I know he helped the right-wing elites but
should you prosecute him if those things are true?
Definitely, it's criminal not to prosecute him.
Now, we've been too kind to Hunter Biden if you ask me because homeboy is
crazy, okay?
He's crazy.
So he leaves his laptop at this repair shop and
of course he's dealing with the consequences of that.
But he did other crazy things that I wanna share with you.
Biden also left a laptop with Keith Ablow, a Massachusetts-based
psychiatrist who was a regular on Fox News back in the day.
He's no longer on Fox News regularly but he's close to a psychiatrist
who has been close to Republican activist Roger Stone.
So Keith Ablow and Roger Stone are buddies, and
Hunter Biden left a laptop with him?
What?
Why?
>> We covered absolutely insane stories over the last 20 years on this show.
This is one of the craziest I have ever heard.
Keith Ablow was on Fox News' Medical A team.
You remember him?
He's the psycho that, look, I have to confess,
I said before we had the evidence and I said I clearly labeled his speculation,
I said he's got some woman tied up in his basement, okay?
And guess what?
It turned out.
Several clients, he's a therapist and
employees said, yeah, he would sexually assault,
sexually harass, he would make them get on their knees.
He would beat them with a belt that had a skull on it, okay?
So it's one of my proudest predictions.
>> Good job Cenk.
>> And so but I tell you that one to brag, let's keep it real, okay?
Number two, you're gonna psycho Keith Ablow that's on Fox News?
And on Fox news is speaking like insane.
He said, I'm a medical expert and I can tell you that Obama didn't
do enough on Ebola virus because he has affinities towards Africa.
>> He was crazy.
>> I mean he was cray, cray, how do you go to that extent?
Number one, how do you go to that therapist, period?
Number two, you're the son of Joe Biden and you're gonna go to a Fox News
lunatic as your therapist and then you're gonna leave your laptop there.
I've never heard anything crazier.
>> You did it to yourself, Hunter.
I mean, come on.
I don't even know what else to say, come on.
I get it, I get that when you're in the throes of an addiction,
you make bad decisions.
But there had to be windows of clarity where you realize I'm going to freaking
Keith Ablow, and how do you leave your laptop with that guy?
By the way, if you're wondering, what happened to that laptop?
Apparently, federal agents seized that laptop after raiding Keith Abalow's home.
>> Yeah, look there is no crack strong enough to justify using
Keith Ablow as your therapist.
Let alone leaving your laptop.
Who takes their laptop to their therapist and gives it to them.
>> Okay, look, now I'm gonna speculate I wanna be clear that I'm speculating, okay?
But with that said Keith Ablow is apparently a psychiatrist.
And psychiatrists are different from psychologists in that they can
prescribe drugs.
So, I don't know if there is a connection there but -.
>> Yes, he was known a little bit as a candy man.
And so maybe that's why he went there and
who knows Ablow is a master manipulator in the lawsuit.
The woman filed told about all of his different psychological tricks while
they're in their weakest state to take advantage of them.
He probably asked again this speculation might maybe trick Hunter Biden
into bringing the laptop in because he's thinking I can't believe the son
of Joe Biden is trusting me.
I'm gonna totally rock this guy, right?
So but guys, again, it's unconscionable to go to that guy as your therapist.
And to tell him your secrets.
There's no chance that he would keep those secrets private.
None.
He no longer has his license by the way,
after all the sexual allegations that he settled the lawsuit, etc.
But bottom line though, Hunter-.
>> It was literally the most interesting thing I've read about the Hunter Biden
laptop story-.
>> For sure.
But I'll say one more thing.
Look man,
that's a lot of mistakes that Hunter Biden made that got his dad in a lot of trouble.
He should go to a therapist about that, okay?
Because there was a good son Beau Biden.
And Hunters always had trouble and
I'm sure that there were a lot of feelings mixed up in that.
And if you guys remember Hunter then slept with Bo's wife after Bo passed away.
>> God, having kids sucks.
>> Okay.
>> How do you control that situation?
>> And then on top of that, you could leave your laptops all over the state and
you go to psycho Keith Ablow for your therapist and have your laptop?
I mean there's some psychology involved there.
But bottom line is guys, if you show me one piece of evidence that Hunter Biden
actually got Joe Biden to do something illegal and corrupt, good,
go get them, okay?
But all that's these laptops have ever shown is the exact opposite.
Plus, Hunter Biden had massive issues.
But having massive issues is not a crime and has no connection to Joe Biden.
In fact, all it's ever done is hurt him.