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The laptop was given to the FBI first and then someone from the FBI leaked it to Giuliani after the investigation was not moving. Once it became public a senate committee verified the validity of the evidence and the investigation made it to the public.

Edit: I stand corrected. The repair shop owner shared an image of the disk with Giuliani, after first sharing it with the FBI.

If I recall, it was the repair shop owner who shared an image of the hard drive with Giuliani's people. He thought the FBI wasn't doing enough with it.

Edit: Source https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/10/14/meet-wi...

Digital data is not hard to duplicate. Both can be true.

The repair shop made disk images (part of the repair process), then gave the laptop to the FBI, and then shared the disk images.