Many of the deleted documents were system files, application files, or duplicates of user files stored elsewhere on the laptop.
Some of the retrieved data, however, expose some of his financial dealings in 2018 and early 2019, as well as his private dealings during that time frame. Also retrieved from the drive were deleted pictures of government ID cards for two people linked to President Joe Biden's son.
Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos, a former Secret Service agent who has testified in over 100 classified, criminal, and civil matters, recovered the deleted files from unallocated space on the hard drive using a technique called data carving.
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The presence of recoverable deleted user files adds another layer of authenticity to the hard drive, Dimitrelos said.
"In order for user-created data — including personal photographs, bank records, invoices, business records, third-party data such as the driver's licenses of other persons, chat conversations, and medical records, as examples — to exist within the unallocated hard drive space, the computer user would have had to manually delete the files," Dimitrelos said. "Any Robert Hunter Biden recovered files in unallocated space was there as a result of deletions by the user ‘roberthunter.’"
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Dimitrelos has reviewed the Washington Examiner's copy of the hard drive and determined with 100% confidence that Hunter Biden "was the only person responsible for the activity on this hard drive and all of its stored data."
Many of the salvaged user files were extensions to text messages that Hunter Biden sent to or received from his associates. The text messages include markers indicating that an attachment was deleted.
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One of the recovered text attachments was a selfie he took in which he can be seen holding a vape pen. He attached the photo to a message sent to an unknown person Jan. 30, 2019.
"That's the weed vape pen that a Russian Escort left in my room before I came here this time," Hunter Biden texted them.
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A report by Republican senators in 2020 concluded Hunter Biden paid “nonresident women” who were “nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries” and who appeared to be linked to what records indicated was an “Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.”
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Hunter Biden also received an invoice from his psychiatrist, former Fox News contributor Keith Ablow, showing he had racked up $13,600 worth of psychotherapy charges in November and December 2018. Hunter Biden had requested that Ablow send him the invoice in a Dec. 10, 2018, text.
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