You're assuming Rudy and others don't have copies and a dead man switch.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/theyre-going-to-try-to-kill-me-rudy-giuliani-reveals-he-has-a-kill-switch-to-release-biden-family-crime-docs-if-he-disappears-video/

They can leak it to the press and Rudy also has Discovery. He can subpoena the government and the Biden's and every other deadbeat involved. They didn't need to take the copy of Hunter's laptop. They already legally obtained it as evidence. They just needed it to look like a partisan witch hunt. They have to look at the evidence and act on it.