Hunter Biden is suing Fox News for its The Trial of Hunter Biden series, according to a Sunday court filing in New York County Supreme Court.
Biden’s attorneys said the “series intentionally manipulates the facts, distorts the truth, narrates happenings out of context, and invents dialogue intended to entertain.” They’re also taking issue with the outlet’s publication of photos “depicting him in the nude … as well as engaged in sex acts.”
The lawsuit fulfills a threat made by Biden’s lawyers that they would sue over the series, which the network took down in April. The series on Fox Nation, its streaming service, offered a fictionalized version of what a trial against Biden might look like. The television personality overseeing it, Judge Joe Brown, warned viewers that what they were seeing was not a real trial and that Biden was not facing charges.
“Far from reporting on a newsworthy event, Fox sought to commercialize Mr. Biden’s personality through a form of treatment distinct from the dissemination of news or information,” the lawsuit notes.
“Indeed, the entire miniseries is fictionalized and based on a nonexistent criminal case. … 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, which is highly damaging to Mr. Biden.”
Biden’s attorneys cite three causes of action: a violation of Biden’s civil rights due to the intimate images “disseminated and published” by Fox, alleged intentional infliction of emotional distress by Fox, and Fox News’s alleged unjust enrichment from the series.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Biden’s attorneys but did not receive a response.
Biden’s attorneys also cite the Dominion Voting Systems judgement against Fox News as to “not be the first time that Fox knowingly engaged in unlawful conduct.”
A Fox News spokesperson said in a statement to the Washington Examiner that the lawsuit was “entirely politically motivated” and “devoid of merit.”
“The core complaint stems from a 2022 streaming program that Mr. Biden did not complain about until sending a letter in late April 2024,” the spokesperson said. “The program was removed within days of the letter, in an abundance of caution, but Hunter Biden is a public figure who has been the subject of multiple investigations and is now a convicted felon. Consistent with the First Amendment, FOX News has accurately covered the newsworthy events of Mr. Biden’s own making, and we look forward to vindicating our rights in court.”
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Biden is seeking punitive and compensatory damage awards, an order directing Fox News to “take down, remove and delete any publication of an Intimate Image of Mr. Biden,” a permanent injunction enjoining defendants from publishing, disseminating, disclosing, posting, or uploading any intimate images of Biden, and disgorgement of profits from The Trial of Hunter Biden, among other things.
Meanwhile, Biden is dealing with litigation against him as well, as he was recently convicted in his gun trial and faces more criminal charges in his California tax case.
