Hunter Biden is suing Fox News for “revenge porn,” claiming the conservative news network featured several of his “intimate images” in a “politically motivated” six-part miniseries that was distributed on the Fox Nation streaming service in October 2022. The controversial miniseries, which is no longer available, was titled “The Trial of Hunter Biden” and centered on evidence allegedly found on Biden’s notorious laptop . It was structured as a fictitious mock trial that imagined what a criminal proceeding against Biden might look like if he were charged with bribery and acting as a foreign agent.
Since no such charges have ever been filed, the series is an act of fantasy, not legitimate news, and had no right to include private, intimate images and video depicting Biden fully naked and sometimes “engaged in sex acts,” Biden alleges in his new lawsuit filed in New York. “Beginning in 2020, as part of their politically motivated attacks against the president and his family, [Fox News Network and its affiliates] targeted Mr. Biden in an effort to harass, annoy, alarm, and humiliate him, and tarnish his reputation,” the complaint, first submitted in state court and moved on Monday to federal court in Manhattan, alleges.
Biden claims the series was not a “matter of legitimate public concern,” so Fox should not be allowed to claim any free speech protection. “In publishing and disseminating these intimate images, Fox knew that these private and confi.
