US President Joe Biden waves as he walks with First Woman Jill Biden and son Hunter Biden upon arrival at Fort McNair in Washington, DC, on July 1, 2024. Biden returned to Washington for the primary time after the primary presidential debate in Atlanta on June 27. (Picture by Mandel NGAN / AFP)
US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter is suing right-wing Fox Information for airing nude pictures of him in a miniseries that he claims quantity to “revenge porn,” courtroom paperwork confirmed Monday.
“The Trial of Hunter Biden” was made up of six episodes revealed in 2022 on Fox Nation, the conservative broadcaster’s on-line platform owned by the household of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
A dramatized model of a legal trial, the collection contained a warning the proceedings have been fiction, depicting the primary son being prosecuted for graft — accusations which have been made for years by Donald Trump supporters who level to Hunter Biden’s previous enterprise ties with Ukraine and China.
The accusations have by no means led to authorized motion.
However the collection integrates actual pictures of Biden, “depicting him within the nude, depicting an unclothed or uncovered intimate a part of him, in addition to engaged in intercourse acts,” the criticism alleges.
“Fox revealed and disseminated these intimate pictures to its huge viewers of hundreds of thousands as a part of an leisure program to be able to humiliate, harass, annoy and alarm Mr. Biden and to tarnish his repute.”
The photographs originated from a laptop computer that Hunter Biden dropped off at a pc restore store, however which he by no means collected.
Its contents have been circulating ever since, and are the topic of widespread conspiracy theories in addition to embarrassing fodder for the political opposition.
“This fully politically motivated lawsuit is devoid of advantage,” Fox Information mentioned in a press release.
“Mr. Biden didn’t complain about (it) till sending a letter in late April 2024. This system was eliminated inside days of the letter, in an abundance of warning.
“In step with the First Modification, Fox Information has precisely coated the newsworthy occasions of Mr. Biden’s personal making, and we sit up for vindicating our rights in courtroom.”
Hunter Biden was convicted by a jury in June of unlawful possession of a firearm in a federal trial that once more dropped at gentle his years of habit to alcohol, cocaine and crack cocaine, obvious in lots of the pictures found on the laptop computer.
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In September, he’ll face a separate tax fraud case, a trial that’s more likely to distract from his father’s presidential marketing campaign.
