Hunter Biden is gunning for Fox News.
Fox News isn’t even putting up a fight.
And now Hunter Biden just forced Fox News to admit this unthinkable defeat.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, fired off a letter to Fox News threatening a defamation suit over the network’s coverage of allegations of foreign influence peddling.
Geragos demanded that hosts like Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo issue on-air retractions.
And Geragos also warned Fox News to take down the six-part “The Trial of Hunter Biden” series that streamed on Fox Nation in October 2022.
“The Trial of Hunter Biden” was a fictionalized “mock trial” to simulate what would happen if Hunter Biden faced criminal charges for bribery and violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Geragos claimed that while the series contained true facts, it wove them in with a narrative that Geragos claimed would mislead viewers.
“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. Thus, the viewer of the series cannot decipher what is fact and what is fiction,” Geragos stated.
Within days, Fox News tapped out and removed the series.
“This program was produced in and has been available since 2022,” a statement from Fox News announcing the decision to pull “The Trial of Hunter Biden” read. “We are reviewing the concerns that have just been raised and — out of an abundance of caution in the interim — have taken it down.”
Fox News then tried to put on a brave front on this retreat and make it seem like it was gearing up for a fight.
“Hunter Biden’s lawyers have belatedly chosen to publicly attack Fox News’ constitutionally protected coverage regarding their client,” Fox News added.
“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 concluded.
Ever since the 2020 election, liberals realized they can weaponize defamation law.
Dominion Voting Systems, Atlanta election workers, and E. Jean Carroll all won sizeable settlements or judgments after suing Fox News, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump in favorable jurisdictions where they can count on sympathetic judges and juries.
Fox News is fearing a rerun of the Dominion case where a liberal judge eliminated any avenue the network had to defend itself in trial after Dominion sued following Fox News airing claims made by Trump’s lawyers that voting machines switched votes in the 2020 election.
Fox likely would have prevailed on appeal, but the prospect of a lengthy and costly process that would drag on for years didn’t seem too enticing.
That’s why Fox paid out a $787 million settlement.
If Hunter Biden sues Fox in a liberal jurisdiction like New York or his home state of Delaware, Fox could be paying out the nose again.
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