Fox News removed its Hunter Biden docuseries Tuesday after the first son threatened to sue the network.
“This program was produced in and has been available since 2022,” the network told reporters in a statement. “We are reviewing the concerns that have just been raised and — out of an abundance of caution in the interim — have taken it down.”
Hunter’s legal team asked Fox News last week to remove “hacked” and “intimate” images from its news site or risk a lawsuit, along with its miniseries, “The Trial of Hunter Biden.” The show reports Hunter’s business activities.
“FOX knows that these private and confidential images were hacked, stolen, and/or manipulated digital material,” Hunter’s attorneys wrote in a letter last week.
“While routinely defaming and disparaging Mr. Biden, FOX has simultaneously sought to profit by the unlawful exploitation of Mr. Biden’s image, name, and likeness for commercial purposes and reprehensible dissemination of salacious photographs depicting Mr. Biden,” the attorneys continued.
Hunter Biden’s laptop repairman, John Paul Mac Isaac, said an FBI agent threatened him to stay silent after Isaac told the agent he would change the FBI agents names when he published a book about the “laptop from hell.” https://t.co/VM9tWxrZuU
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 13, 2022
Although Hunter claims the images were “hacked,” the Justice Department confirmed in January the contents on his laptop matched what authorities obtained via a search warrant of Hunter’s iCloud.
The DOJ also stated Hunter left the laptop at a computer store for repair before it was turned over to the FBI.
In addition, the “chain of custody of that laptop has been well established,” the New York Post’s Miranda Devine reported.
Fox News defended their reporting as “constitutionally protected coverage” of a public figure, the network told Breitbart News on Tuesday:
Hunter Biden’s lawyers have belatedly chosen to publicly attack Fox News’ constitutionally protected coverage regarding their client. 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 US 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 made about Mr. Biden.
Hunter faces multiple tax and gun-related indictments, along with a House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. Republican lawmakers allege Hunter potentially engaged in sex trafficking and FARA violations.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former GOP War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.
Show the world the real Biden crime family, let them see through all the lies they’re telling the American people, maybe then we’ll see who they vote for. The media hid this info last time around now the shoes on the other foot.