After Hunter Biden’s Attorneys Threaten To Sue Fox News For Defamation, Network Takes Down Miniseries ‘The Trial Of Hunter Biden’

After Hunter Biden’s attorneys threatened to sue Fox News for defamation, the network removed the six-part miniseries, The Trial of Hunter Biden.

Hunter’s attorneys threatened to sue Fox News for violating “revenge” laws and publishing since-debunked bribery accusations as part of a scheme to portray him inaccurately.

The letter, which President Joe Biden’s son’s counsel delivered to Fox News attorneys last week, includes a request for the network to “preserve all documents potentially relevant to the allegations in this letter” – a common precursor to litigation.

“We anticipate that litigation against Fox … is imminent,” the letter read.

Hunter’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, has represented well-known people like Michael Jackson, Chris Brown and Winona Ryder.

Geragos demanded Fox News issue numerous retractions and corrections for reporting on Hunter’s overseas business schemes.

“For the last five years, Fox News has relentlessly attacked Hunter Biden and made him a caricature to boost ratings and for its financial gain,” Geragos and the attorneys Bryan Freedman and Tina Glandian stated.

“Hunter Biden’s lawyers have belatedly chosen to publicly attack Fox News’ constitutionally protected coverage regarding their client,” a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement. “Mr. Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of investigations by both the Department of Justice and Congress, has been indicted by two different U.S. Attorney’s Offices in California and Delaware, and has admitted to multiple incidents of wrongdoing.”

“Consistent with the First Amendment, Fox News has accurately covered these highly publicized events as well as the subsequent indictment of an FBI informant who was the source of certain claims about Mr. Biden,” the spokesperson added.

On Tuesday, Fox News confirmed the removal of The Trial of Hunter Biden and stated that it would stay down at least temporarily pending a review.

“This program was produced in and has been available since 2022,” a Fox News spokesperson said. “We are reviewing the concerns that have just been raised and – out of an abundance of caution in the interim – have taken it down.”

If the president’s son moves forward with a lawsuit against Fox News, it would be his first action against a major media firm.

Biden’s attorneys demanded that Fox News remove The Trial of Hunter Biden, released in 2022, from its streaming services.

The miniseries used a mix of actors and authentic material to depict what Hunter’s trial would be like.

Hunter’s legal team slammed the series as a distortion.

“While using certain true information, the series intentionally manipulates the facts, distorts the truth, narrates happenings out of context, and invents dialogue intended to entertain,” the team wrote.

The miniseries, which Fox Nation describes as a mock trial that wants to show “how a possible Hunter Biden trial might look,” includes several sexually graphic images of Hunter, which had been reproduced in his attorneys’ letter.

According to the attorneys representing the president’s son, this miniseries “unlawfully published and continues to publish intimate images of Mr. Biden depicting him in the nude as well as engaged in sex acts in violation of the majority of states’ laws against the nonconsensual disclosure of sexually explicit images and videos, sometimes referred to as ‘revenge porn’ laws.”

The images cited in the letter date back to a time when Hunter had a drug and alcohol addiction. In his memoir Beautiful Things, published in 2021, Hunter described recurrent drug-infused binges, which usually involved sexual interactions with women.

In March, Hunter appeared on Capitol Hill for deposition in the Republican’s impeachment inquiry into his father and to refute the claim that the president was involved in any of his business dealings. House Oversight and Judiciary Committee members interviewed him during a closed-door session on Capitol Hill.

Hunter accused Republicans of hunting him in their “partisan political pursuit of” his father and said that the deposition “should put an end to this baseless and destructive political charade.”

Hunter testified for more than six hours with Republican lawmakers, making him the primary focus of their investigation into his father’s wrongdoings.

The House Oversight and Judiciary Committees did not offer evidence connecting the president to his family’s business arrangements. This long-awaited deposition appeared not to offer Republicans any new investigative leads.

On September 26, 2023, Hunter sued the former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for violations of computer fraud and data access to a laptop that the former supposedly left at a Delaware repair shop.

In October 2020, Giuliani leaked information he claimed to have gotten from the American attorney’s computer to The New York Post.

Hunter’s federal lawsuit also named Robert Costello, a previous representative of Giuliani, as a defendant.