Hunter Biden is pursuing a different kind of cover-up.
Lawyers for the eldest son are demanding that Fox News remove “intimate” photos of the disgraced middle-aged president’s offspring or face a lawsuit.
In a letter dated April 23 and made public on Monday, lawyers for scandal-scarred Mr. Hunter, 54, called Mr. Fox’s “sneaky” and “hacked” photos “reprehensible.” accused of using it.
The younger Biden’s legal team took particular issue with the six-part series “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” on the premium Fox Nation streaming service.
The series was structured as a mock trial for the president’s son on charges including violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act and bribery, and the now infamous images taken from Hunter’s laptop showed him naked. The film shows him in a compromising position with a large group of women. The same goes for doing drugs.
The latest letter, written by attorney Tina Grandian of the prominent law firm Geragos & Geragos, says the series “deliberately manipulates facts” so that viewers “cannot decipher” what is true. “
Because “Hunter Biden Trial” was “intended only as entertainment, not news,” the use of the for the commercial interests of the United States,” the lawyer argued.
“Mr. Biden is the exclusive rights holder of copyrighted material, including but not limited to the intimate images published without authorization on Fox Nation’s ‘The Trial of Hunter Biden,'” Grandian wrote. Ta. “We hereby demand that FOX immediately remove and disable access to all intimate images of Mr. Biden from The Hunter Biden Trial.”
The letter also addresses allegations by an indicted former FBI informant that Hunter Biden and his father each received $5 million in bribes from Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings. They accused the leading cable news station of unfairly doubling the amount. In exchange for the dismissal of Kiev’s then-prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, and cooperation in quashing the 2016 Burisma investigation.
Informant Alexander Smirnov was indicted by Special Counsel David Weiss on charges of lying to FBI agents about meetings with Burisma officials that were the basis of allegations against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. He was indicted in May.
There is no record or evidence that the Bidens received payments of that amount from Mr. Zlochevsky.
Mr. Grandian’s letter said that Mr. Fox “initially remained silent” about the accusations against Mr. Smirnov, but later supported the bribery claims, and that broadcast hosts Maria Bartiromo and Jesse Watters They called the charges “intimidation tactics” and “smear operations,” respectively. .
“[G]”Even if the bribery allegations are confirmed to be false, we urge FOX to take immediate steps to inform our readers and viewers that the source of these allegations has been indicted by the federal government for fabricating the allegations. We hereby request that you take action.”
Hunter Biden currently faces a criminal firearms case in Delaware for allegedly lying about drug addiction when submitting paperwork for a firearm purchase in 2018, as well as a federal tax charge of 140 between 2016 and 2016. He is also facing a criminal tax case in Los Angeles for allegedly evading $10,000. 2019.
The eldest son has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Representatives for FOX News did not respond to requests for comment.
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