This time, unlike the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden’s conduct, his father’s administration will not be able protect him.

Hunter Biden, the son of the president, will be questioned for hours on Thursday under oath in the civil suit brought by the owner the shop where he left his laptop. In the deposition, the president’s child will have to confirm that he owns the laptop containing emails implicating the Biden family as part of a pay-to play scandal. Hunter’s father will not be able protect him this time, unlike in the criminal investigation of Hunter’s conduct.

John Paul Mac Isaac filed a lawsuit in October last year, alleging defamation, against Hunter Biden and others. Hunter Biden’s lawyers counterclaimed against Mac Isaac by alleging that the store owner committed several “invasions of privacy” torts for sharing the recovered data from the laptop. Hunter Biden’s attorneys claimed that they lacked the “knowledge necessary to deny or admit the allegations” and that the laptop he had dropped off at the shop was his.

Hunter, however, will be under oath on Thursday and cannot allow his lawyers to obfuscate in his behalf. The first question to be asked of the president’s child is whether he has left his MacBook in the repair shop.

Hunter Biden’s expensive lawyers will do everything they can to prevent Hunter from giving substantive answers, and President Biden’s son is likely to use the “I don’t remember” answer so often that one could be forgiven for believing they were questioning the elder Biden. Brian Della Rocca will dig deeper than the “journalists”, who are interviewing Hunter Biden.

Does it look like your signature? Does it look similar to your signature? Did you own a MacBook Pro? It had a Biden foundation sticker on it? It broke? Have you ever been to this part of Wilmington? What do you think of this shop? What was your address at the time of this signature? Do you have any reason to dispute the expert’s conclusion that this is your signature?

Mac Isaac claims that Hunter Biden came back to the store with a Western Digital external hard disk to allow Mac Isaac the transfer of the recovered data onto that hard drive. If Hunter Biden is correct, then the following questions will reveal the absurdity of his claim that he has no memory. So, you drove yourself to the store twice but have no recollection, because you were too drunk to remember? This is your testimony. You don’t recall purchasing a hard disk?

Mac Isaac’s lawyer will attempt to link Hunter to the laptop even if he denies that he dropped it off. He can do this by showing that a hard drive was purchased. Mac Isaac’s attorney instructed Hunter Biden to provide “all unredacted financial records” from April 2019. Hunter’s attorneys may not include credit card records or other financial records because they aren’t technically “bank records,” however Della Rocca could push the Biden’s son on this issue: How did you purchase items in 2019? What credit cards and bank accounts did you use during April 2019? Della Rocca may issue further discovery requests based on Hunter’s responses.

Mac Isaac’s lawyer is unlikely to be impressed with this method of proving Hunter Biden abandoned the laptop after signing the paperwork and dropping it off.

Hunter’s refusal to acknowledge these facts would, however, make the authenticity and content of the laptop highly relevant. How did the content on the hard drive end up there if the laptop was not his?

It might be logical for an unauthorised third party to leave the MacBook in the repair shop if the documents, photos, videos and emails are fake. If the entire laptop’s content is genuine, the only reasonable conclusion is that it was Hunter’s laptop and he or someone on his behalf brought it to the Mac Store for repair and signed the receipt.

What material do you claim isn’t authentic on the Mac Book Hard drive, Mr. Biden? Do you think it’s likely that your laptop is the one with the authentic documents on the Mac Book Hard Drive? Who else would have been able to access the laptop?

Hunter’s attorneys will likely object to the questions frequently, and Della Rocca may be forced to ask the judge of the state court to order the son of the president to answer them.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers may have made an tactical error, but instead of simply defending Mac Isaac’s defamation suit, they filed multiple counterclaims against him. The counterclaims are based on the idea that Mac Isaac illegally accessed or copied Hunter Biden’s data. Hunter Biden is in a bind if Mac Isaac’s access to the data was through the laptop that was left at his shop. The signatory to the repair contract had agreed that the equipment that had been left there for over 90 days will be considered abandoned and that the Mac Shop would not be held responsible for any loss or damage.

Hunter Biden tries to differentiate between the data and the “equipment”, i.e. the laptop, but the “hold harmless clause” applies to “any” loss or damage “of property,” a term that is wide enough to cover Hunter’s data. If Hunter Biden is looking to hold Mac Isaac accountable for privacy invasion, it’s important to know if the data on the laptop was genuine. The release of this data would then fall under the “hold harmless clause” of the contract.

Hunter Biden’s best attorneys will vigorously object and contest this theory. This litigation is likely to be prolonged further by the top-notch lawyers of Hunter Biden. This is probably their strategy, because the Bidens have deep pockets and can afford to outspend Mac Isaac. The bleak American legal system could also exhaust Mac Isaac’s resources and person. It would be a tragedy, because this could be the only chance for justice given the Biden administration’s interference in the criminal trial.