Rudy Giuliani claimed that Attorney General William Barr is “intimidated,” and that’s why he’s not investigating the allegations of corruption surrounding Hunter Biden.
Giuliani, the president’s lawyer who’s at the center of the allegations, made the accusation during an interview with Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo on Thursday morning.
During the interview, she asked the former New York City mayor, “You’ve brought forth very important information that the public needs to hear. Where is government? Where is the attorney general? How come Hunter Biden has not been subpoenaed? OK. How come we’re not forced to get an answer from the Biden family about this, five days before a presidential election?”
Giuliani responded by blaming the media, but she then followed up, “Where’s the subpoena? I’m not talking about the media. I’m talking about the government. I’m talking about the [attorney general].”
“They’re intimidated,” Giuliani responded. “They’re intimidated, Maria. They don’t want to get treated the way I get treated. My career is way behind me. They can’t do anything about my career. These people have careers. I have had people work with me that are getting — that got fired by their law firm, get threatened to be fired by their law firms.”
She then quipped, “Forget about justice.”
Earlier this month, the New York Post reported on the contents of a laptop and hard drive that purportedly belonged to Biden, which contained emails and other data detailing his foreign business dealings. Some of the content on the supposed hard drive, critics say, raise concerns about possible corruption and national security issues for him and his father.
Giuliani had access to the hard drive prior to its publication and said he obtained it through his lawyer, who received a copy of it from a Delaware computer repairman who claims to have obtained it after Hunter Biden left it there.
Biden, in response to the allegations, has claimed attacks related to the laptop are part of a “smear campaign” while Democrats and former intelligence officials have said the story has hallmarks of Russian disinformation, something that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has said there is no evidence to support.
Giuliani is not the only person who has appeared frustrated with Barr’s approach to the hard drive.
President Trump urged him to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate, telling Fox & Friends last week that he’s “got to act fast. He’s got to appoint somebody. This is major corruption, and this has to be known about before the election.”
