US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has sued Rudy Giuliani and Giuliani’s former lawyer Robert Costello, accusing the pair of violating Hunter Biden’s privacy over data allegedly taken from his laptop, court documents filed on Tuesday showed.
Biden in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Los Angeles accused Giuliani, who has served as a personal lawyer for former president Donald Trump, and Costello of being responsible for the “total annihilation” of his digital privacy. Biden, 53, previously sued a former White House aide who served under Trump and the US Internal Revenue Service. Republicans have focused on Hunter Biden as President Joe Biden, a Democrat, seeks re-election next year. The legal action was filed as Hunter Biden prepares to plead not guilty to federal gun charges next week after an earlier plea deal with prosecutors fell apart.
His trial in Delaware is the first-ever prosecution of a sitting US president’s child, and comes as Joe Biden could again face Trump, who faces four upcoming criminal cases of his own, in 2024.
Trump and congressional Republicans, without evidence, have separately accused the Democratic president of profiting while he served as vice president from 2009-2017 from his son’s foreign business ventures. The White House has denied the accusations.