**Rudy Giuliani's Lawyer: FBI Didn't Want to Touch Hunter Biden's Laptop During Raid**

Robert Costello, the lawyer who represented Rudy Giuliani in legal challenges related to the 2020 election, has made a shocking claim. According to him, FBI agents who raided Giuliani's apartment and office in 2021 didn't want to touch Hunter Biden's laptop hard drives, despite the first son being under investigation at the time for potential tax fraud.

Costello told The Post's Miranda Devine on the latest episode of "Pod Force One" that the agents saw the hard drives as "radioactive." This is a reference to the fact that they knew Giuliani had possession of them and was about to expose their contents, which would have revealed Hunter Biden's involvement in shady business deals with Ukrainian and Chinese energy companies.

The hard drives led to The Post's bombshell October 2020 reports on Hunter Biden's efforts to leverage his father's position as vice president for lucrative business deals. Costello also said that the FBI raid and the bureau's other actions to downplay the damning details in The Post's report was "the best proof of election interference in the 2020 campaign."

According to Costello, when he called the lead FBI agent on the phone during the raid, he explained the situation and asked if they knew what a hard drive looked like. The agent confirmed that they did, and then said, "Oh, we're not going to touch those." This contradicts the order on the warrant to seize every electronic device in Giuliani's home.

Costello asked Devine to consider why the FBI agents would treat the hard drives as radioactive: "Because they knew that they were legitimate." The lawyer explained that the agents knew that Giuliani had given them to the New York Post, and that their plot to keep all of this stuff secret was falling apart fast.

The bureau's actions are even more suspicious when considering that federal and congressional investigations later confirmed that the Biden family received tens of millions of dollars from foreign patrons. The FBI had "verified" the authenticity of Hunter's laptop as far back as November 2019 after taking custody of the device, and agents for the bureau had even told content moderators at Twitter that the emails on its hard drive were real when the first Post report was published.

Costello also claimed on "Pod Force One" that his client's claims of the 2020 election being interfered with are bolstered by the FBI's actions with respect to the Hunter Biden case. He said, "The Hunter Biden laptop by itself proves that what he was doing is telling the truth." Yet, Giuliani was disbarred due to the cancel culture, losing his reputation, money, and law license.

Costello concluded by revealing that he's been in contact with informants who are working to corroborate how "everything" that Giuliani claimed about the Biden's influence-peddling with respect to Ukraine "was true." This includes some who have expressed that Joe and Hunter Biden did receive a $10 million "bribe" from an executive at the Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings.

"We have other witnesses whose names I'm not going to reveal, but I have revealed it to the correct people who say the same thing," Costello said. "In fact, those people are still communicating with me today, and I am trying to get them to the right place in either the Department of Justice or the Senate or the House of Representatives, so that they can follow up on this."