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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
Fox News takes down Hunter Biden ‘mock trial’ miniseries after | |
lawsuit threat | |
By Marshall Cohen, CNN | |
Updated: | |
2:03 PM EDT, Tue April 30, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
Fox News on Tuesday removed a six-part Hunter Biden miniseries from its | |
streaming platform, after his attorneys the right-wing network over | |
the incendiary and at-times sexually explicit program about his legal | |
troubles. | |
The removal is a swift response from the conservative media juggernaut, | |
whose spokespeople were defending the material as recently as Tuesday | |
morning. | |
“This program was produced in and has been available since 2022,” a | |
Fox News Media spokesperson said in a statement. “We are reviewing | |
the concerns that have just been raised and – out of an abundance of | |
caution in the interim – have taken it down.” | |
The program, titled “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” was an offering on | |
the Fox Nation digital streaming network. It was also promoted on Fox | |
News, the cable TV channel. | |
As of Tuesday afternoon, the link on the Fox Nation site for the | |
six-episode series was not working. Episodes that were available before | |
the lawsuit threat are no longer accessible. | |
The dispute primarily revolves around sexually explicit images of | |
Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, with women that were shown | |
on-screen during the program, which featured a “mock trial” about | |
his overseas financial dealings that led in part to his federal tax | |
indictment and has also fueled House Republicans’ struggling | |
impeachment inquiry into his father. | |
Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, and a trial | |
in California is scheduled to begin in late June. | |
and of “unlawful publication of hacked intimate images” that could | |
violate “revenge porn” laws. | |
Fox denied wrongdoing, saying in a statement Tuesday morning that its | |
coverage was accurate and “consistent with the First Amendment.” | |
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