This is an insane move.
On Tuesday, President Biden’s son took legal action by filing a lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, alleging that the former attorney for President Trump violated his privacy rights through the unauthorized dissemination of content from Hunter’s infamous laptop.
According to Fox, this legal complaint was lodged in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, asserting that Giuliani is primarily accountable for the severe breach of Biden’s digital privacy. Additionally, the lawsuit includes Robert Costello, a former federal prosecutor who previously represented Giuliani, as a defendant, according to confirmation from Fox News.
The complaint contends that for an extended period, the defendants have dedicated substantial time and effort to seeking, tampering with, copying, and widely distributing data they claim to have acquired from devices or storage platforms associated with Hunter. The lawsuit emphasizes that this data didn’t originate from a traditional laptop but rather from an external drive.
The contents of this external drive encompass various forms of media, such as images, videos, emails, and other data. Since their initial publication by the New York Post in 2020, this information has placed Hunter in legal jeopardy and caused political challenges for his father, President Biden.
Giuliani and Costello have publicly acknowledged obtaining copies of files from a hard drive that Hunter purportedly left at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019. In October 2020, Giuliani shared this information with the New York Post, which subsequently published a story based on Hunter’s emails. These emails implicated President Biden in a business deal with a Ukrainian company that had enlisted Hunter on its board.
House Republicans initiated an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, asserting that, during his tenure as vice president, he interfered with Ukrainian prosecutors’ investigation into the company where his son worked. Further investigations by GOP lawmakers claimed that the president was involved in several business deals orchestrated by Hunter.
President Biden has consistently denied any involvement in his son’s business affairs. Hunter’s legal team had previously issued cease-and-desist letters to Giuliani and others who had acquired and disseminated the laptop’s contents.
The lawsuit’s primary objective is to obtain a court order preventing Giuliani and others from accessing, tampering with, manipulating, or copying Hunter’s data. It also seeks the return of the device or hard drive to Hunter, along with any backup files, cloud files, or duplicates of the same data.
As of now, neither Hunter’s attorneys nor a representative for Giuliani has responded to requests for comments. This lawsuit, filed on Tuesday, marks Hunter’s latest effort to counteract the leaks that have brought his private life into the spotlight on conservative media outlets.
Earlier this month, Hunter also filed a lawsuit against former President Trump aide Garrett Ziegler. In this suit, he alleged that Ziegler and his company had disseminated a substantial amount of explicit content from the device. Additionally, in March, Hunter initiated a countersuit, claiming that the owner of the Wilmington, Delaware, computer repair shop, John Paul Mac Isaac, had unlawfully spread his personal information and lodged six invasion of privacy charges against him. Mac Isaac had initially filed a lawsuit against Hunter, CNN, Politico, and Rep. Adam Schiff in October 2022 for defamation.