Hunter Biden’s laptop fixer files lawsuit against Twitter [Video]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Hunter Biden’s laptop fixer John Paul Isaac filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter on Monday, arguing that the company’s suspension of the New York Post article where he was an informant resulted in his business downfall.
• Twitter suspended The Post’s account after publishing the story, citing it was against its policy to publish a ‘hacked material.’
• Isaac is asking for $500 million in exemplary damage.

In a lawsuit filed on Monday against Twitter, John Paul Isaac stated that the social tech company’s move to suspend the New York Post’s article about the upcoming presidential son’s dealings in Ukraine resulted in his business closure and getting death threats. Isaac was the source of the story’s information.

After fixing the Biden’s laptop, Isaac gave it to the FBI and provided a copy of the files to Rudy Giuliani’s personal lawyer, Robert Costello. Giuliani is President Donald Trump’s personal attorney. It was Giuliani who shared the information with The Post that published the story on Biden’s Ukrainian business transactions.

After The Post published the story online, Twitter immediately suspended its account. It also disabled the retweet features, arguing that it was against “distribution of hacked material.”

Isaac, however, contested Twitter’s claim, arguing that the information was not hacked. He noted that the files have been gotten since Biden did not retrieve his laptop.

The lawsuit says that the “Plaintiff, as a direct result of Defendant’s actions and statements, is now widely considered a hacker and, on the same day Defendant categorized the Plaintiff as a hacker, Plaintiff began to receive negative reviews of his business as well as threats to his person and property.”

Later, Twitter re-enabled the newspaper’s social media account while including some disclaimers on the story.

Isaac, though, remained firm in pursuing the case. The incident resulted in the closing of his computer shop business. He is requesting exemplary damage amounting to $500 million as well as pushing Twitter to “make a public retraction of all false statements.”

In its story in October, The Post said that Biden used his father, who was then a vice president, to cement his transactions in Ukraine. The story, though, had many loopholes notwithstanding the timing of the publication and the veracity of the information obtained from Biden’s laptop.

Source: Yahoo News