Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Demand Fox News Remove ‘Hacked’ Images From Platforms, Citing ‘Revenge Porn’ Laws
Hunter Biden and his legal team struck back at Fox News on Monday, demanding that the network remove explicit images from its platforms.
CNN obtained a letter sent by Biden’s lawyers to Fox News and Fox Corps that alleges the network is involved in a “conspiracy to defame” the son of President Joe Biden while it covered House Republicans’ efforts to impeach the latter:
The letter sent by attorneys for Hunter Biden to Fox News and FOX Corp. alleges conspiracy to defame and unlawful publication of “hacked” images, seeking corrections and retractions on air and in online articles to claims that President Biden and his son engaged in a bribery scheme abroad.
Hunter Biden’s legal team has undertaken an aggressive legal and public relations strategy for several months. His lawyers have fired off letters demanding investigations into Hunter Biden’s opponents and filed a series of lawsuits against his detractors. Hunter Biden’s lawyers say they “anticipate” suing Fox but have not yet done so.
At issue, according to CNN’s Dana Bash and Holmes Lybrand, who saw the letter, are a “mock trial” of Hunter Biden that aired on Fox Nation that used sexually explicit images, as well as months’ worth of coverage about the alleged bribery scheme involving Hunter and his father, which largely rested on a now-indicted FBI informant whose claims have both been debunked and linked to Russian intelligence. Biden’s lawyers claimed that these images violated revenge porn laws. They also wrote:
“[I]n a brazen show of no remorse, rather than walk back the story and correct the record, FOX double-downed on the debunked bribery allegation and used Smirnov’s indictment to claim this is an ‘intimidation tactic’ aimed at silencing ‘whistleblowers,’ to blame the FBI for its credulity, and to suggest an even deeper conspiracy,” the letter alleges.
The letter demands Fox News issue editor’s notes to online articles “informing readers of the indictment” and have several prominent Fox News hosts including Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo and Jesse Watters “inform their viewers on air that they have been sharing a debunked allegation from a source who has been federally indicted.”
CNN stated that Fox News did not have a comment on the matter.
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