Former Virginia GOP Rep. Denver Riggleman said Wednesday he is working with Hunter Biden’s legal team and cast doubt on information obtained from the first son’s abandoned laptop, despite its contents having been verified by the FBI in late 2019 and authenticated by many news outlets since.
Riggleman, who also served on the House January 6th select committee as a senior adviser, shared a CBS News report to confirm he was helping Hunter’s lawyers combat congressional investigations into the first son’s finances.
“Truth matters. When I took this job, I wasn’t pro-Hunter or anti-Hunter. I am pro-data and facts,” the 53-year-old tweeted. “Forensics make clear that considerable information linked to Hunter Biden is questionable.”
The now-infamous laptop provided the basis for The Post’s bombshell October 2020 reports on the now-53-year-old first son trading on the Biden family name for lucrative business opportunities abroad, including in Ukraine and China.
Soon after the first stories were published, 51 former intelligence officials tried to discredit the laptop, saying in a signed letter that its contents had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
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But text messages, emails, photos and financial documents found on the laptop’s hard drive that formed the substance of The Post’s reporting were confirmed as authentic nearly two years later.
Former CIA Director Mike Morell also testified to the House Judiciary Committee in April that the intelligence officials’ letter had been inspired by then-Biden campaign official Antony Blinken, the current secretary of state.
The president’s son had been the subject of a five-year federal investigation for alleged tax and gun offenses, but entered into a probation-only plea deal last month with the Justice Department.
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If the agreement is approved by a judge July 26, Hunter is expected to serve two years of probation for tax misdemeanors and enter a pretrial diversion program for possessing a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine.
According to an IRS supervisory agent who testified to the House Ways and Means Committee May 26, the FBI “verified” the contents of the laptop in November 2019 as part of its Hunter probe — and a federal computer expert also attested that its contents were “not manipulated in any way.”
Hunter abandoned three damaged laptop computers at a repair shop in Wilmington, Del., in April 2019.
The shop’s owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, handed an intact hard drive over to the FBI later that year after finding evidence of suspicious financial activity and pornographic images.
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Riggleman, who was attacked as a consumer of “Bigfoot erotica” by his Democratic campaign opponent in 2018, owns Silverback Distillery and is the co-founder and former CEO of Analyst Warehouse LLC, an intelligence and defense contracting company based in Virginia. He served one term in the US House of Representatives.
In a statement to CBS News, Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris also confirmed Riggleman’s presence on the Hunter team.
“Denver has been assisting us with data analysis since late last year,” said Morris, a confidant of the president’s son who last year paid $2 million in back taxes on Hunter’s behalf. “He is an invaluable resource and we have made tremendous strides in untangling the massive amount of corruption and disinformation involved in this story. There will be much more coming to the public.”
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The ex-Republican congressman met with Hunter’s attorneys at the Four Seasons hotel in Washington, DC, on Monday — and was spotted Tuesday at the White House during the July Fourth festivities with the first family and Hunter’s legal team, according to CBS.