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FRIENDS IN LAW PLACES

Hunter begs officials who owe Biden family favors to save him

By EMILY CRANE and SAMUEL CHAMBERLAIN

Hunter Biden has implored Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings and US Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen (insets, above) to criminally investigate his political enemies — including the computer repairman who handled his laptop. But both Jennings and Olsen were given jobs by members of the Biden family.

Hunter Biden has friends in high places.

Two Delaware prosecutors whom the first son’s lawyer called upon to probe Hunter’s infamous laptop have deep ties to the Biden family — while a top DOJ official who received a similar demand is a veteran of the Obama administration and liberal think tanks, an analysis by The Post has shown.

In other developments in the laptop story:

Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell tried to walk back his prior admission that the laptop did indeed belong to his client.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy dismissed the first son’s investigation demand as a “delaying tactic” and vowed lawmakers would “get to the bottom” of the computer’s secrets.

An attorney for repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac slammed Hunter Biden as “desperate” and trying to “blame everyone else for his own actions.”

Lowell fired off a pair of letters Wednesday calling for a criminal investigation into what happened to the laptop after it was abandoned at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019.

Connections galore

Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings was among those urged to look into people connected with the laptop, including Mac Isaac and former President Donald Trump’s onetime attorney Rudy Giuliani.

Jennings, a Democrat who was elected in 2018, was tapped in 2011 by then-Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden — Hunter’s late brother — to serve as a prosecutor in the state Department of Justice. In 2019, despite the misgivings of many Democrats about a Biden 2020 presidential run, Jennings jumped on board the day the former vice president announced he would seek the White House.

“I’ve known Joe, Jill and the Biden family for most of my life,” Jennings wrote in a gushing Facebook post, adding: “Joe is one of the kindest and most genuine people I’ve ever known.”

Even closer to the Biden family is Jennings’ chief deputy, Alexander Mackler, who served as Joe Biden’s press secretary in his final months as a senator, managed Beau’s successful re-election campaign for state AG in 2010 and served as the elder Biden’s deputy counsel during his time as Barack Obama’s vice president.

Mackler’s name also appears frequently in Hunter Biden’s laptop.

“I just finished a hellacious couple months in court,” Mackler wrote Hunter on Oct. 16, 2018, in

a message with the subject line “Hey.” “Now that I have a chance to breathe, was wondering how life is on your end,” Mackler went on. “Last you told me you were out in LA. Gimme a call sometime we can catch up. Love you brother.”

In Mackler’s last message to Hunter, from Feb. 3, 2019, he wished his friend a happy birthday and added, “Lost track of time down here. Hope you’re ok. Call sometime.”

Jennings’ office didn’t respond to The Post on Thursday when asked if she would recuse herself from any potential investigation given her personal and professional ties to the Bidens.

Meanwhile, another letter from Lowell was addressed to the Justice Department’s top nationalsecurity official, Matthew Olsen — who held several sensitive legal positions in the Obama-Biden administration, including general counsel of the National Security Agency and director of the National Counterterrorism Center before leaving government in 2014.

While in the private sector, Olsen was a fellow at two left-leaning think tanks — the Center for a New American Security and the Center for American Progress — and wrote a number of op-eds critical of Donald Trump.

One of those op-eds, published in 2016 by Time, bore the provocative headline: “Why ISIS Supports Donald Trump.”

A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment Thursday when asked if Olsen would play a role in any possible Hunter laptop probe.

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