During an appearance on The Greg Kelly Show Tuesday, 77WABC host Rudy Giuliani claimed the FBI illegally surveilled him and other media members while it investigated the origins of the laptop owned by Hunter Biden that held alleged videos and emails of improprieties from the now-President’s son.
The former New York mayor claims he had the story of Biden’s laptop in 2019, and alleges he gave the story to Sean Hannity, Mike Pompeo, and then-Attorney General Anthony Barr, but the story wasn’t uncovered until The New York Post began reporting on it in 2020.
Kelly asked Giuliani if the FBI knew he was in possession of the laptop for “many months” before it was reported.
“No doubt about it,” Giuliani said. “They had to have known it, because they were illegally surveilling me.”
Trump’s attorney then claimed he was not alone in being surveilled by the FBI, claiming those he spoke with about the story were also surveiled.
“I’m not the only one. I’m on a list of about 15 people. One of the others is someone I communicated with about this, John Solomon. So John Solomon is on that list…I communicated with Jon about strategies on how to get this out. We knew they would bury it. They had buried everything else we tried to put out, and tried to bury us in the meantime.”
John Solomon is the founder of JustTheNews.com.
Before alleging he was spied on by the FBI, Giuliani lamented his perceived downfall of journalism standards and ethics because of the lack of reporting on the “FBI cover up”.
“These stories are stories — you’d think — journalists would dream about,” Giuliani said. “‘I’ve got a story the FBI covered up the most relevant piece of criminal information on a Presidential candidate ever, in history, and they covered it up? What a story that is!’ Wow.”
