Hunter Biden lawyers threaten Fox News with lawsuit over photos
Hunter Biden's attorneys are threatening to sue Fox News over its usage of photos the president's son argues are private.
In a letter sent by Biden's attorneys to Fox News this week and obtained by several news outlets, the younger Biden accused Fox of conducting unlawful publication of “hacked” images. He is demanding the outlet retract and remove them from its platforms.
“For the last five years, Fox News has relentlessly attacked Hunter Biden and made him a caricature in order to boost ratings and for its financial gain,” the attorneys wrote in their letter.
The news outlet shot back in a statement Tuesday, saying 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," the statement reads. "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.”
Fox has relentlessly covered the various corruption scandals and business dealings of the president's son, while Republicans in Congress have conducted investigations into Hunter Biden, alleging the president benefited from some of his dealings.
At issue, Tina Glandian, one of Biden's attorneys said, is a fictionalized docuseries that Fox created and produced for its streaming service "just for entertainment value."
"There’s absolutely no newsworthy purpose to this," Glandian said Monday night during an appearance on CNN.
"So, it’s basically blending in fact and fiction in a way that doesn’t allow viewers to decipher what really is fact and what’s fiction," she said of the Fox Nation docuseries. "And that is very harmful because then, the portrayal is perceived to be true, even though it’s not."