Abbe Lowell, the lawyer for First Son Hunter Biden’s lawsuit against various parties for distributing his private information, said in a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith that the screenshots of alleged WhatsApp messages from Hunter Biden referencing his father are fake, NBC News reports.
Referred to by two former IRS agents the Republicans refer to as whistleblowers, the screenshots have been passed around the internet and were accepted into evidence by the Republican committee majority without checking their authenticity. “[Both messages] include a photo of Mr. Biden not from 2017 but from the White House Easter Egg roll in April 2022 (long after the purported message was sent); both images portray the message in a blue bubble, when WhatsApp messages are in green; one image super-imposed the Chinese flag for the contact ID, when surely that was not how a text or contact was kept; and one purports to be a screenshot with the ‘. . .’ of someone composing a text (as in Apple’s iMessage) when that does not happen on WhatsApp.”