Fox News Removes Hunter Biden Series

Fox News removed a six-part series about Hunter Biden from its streaming platform on Tuesday after attorneys for the president's son threatened a defamation suit against the cable news network.

The program on Fox News' streaming platform, Fox Nation, was titled The Trial of Hunter Biden. It was promoted on Fox News.

In a reported letter sent this week to Fox News, the law firm Geragos & Geragos said the videos in the docuseries represent incendiary and sexually explicit images about Hunter Biden's legal troubles. The letter also cited "revenge porn" laws and demanded the immediate removal of the series.

In an emailed response to Newsweek on Tuesday afternoon, Fox News said the program was removed "out of an abundance of caution."

"This program was produced in and has been available since 2022. 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 statement said.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the link on the Fox Nation site for the Hunter Biden series was not working.

The series featured a "mock trial" about Hunter Biden centered around the overseas financial dealings that led to his federal tax indictment and helped fuel the House impeachment inquiry into the president.

In a letter obtained by CNN on Monday, Biden's lawyers said the series used "intimate images of Mr. Biden depicting him in the nude as well as engaged in sex acts." The letter added that "FOX knows that these private and confidential images were hacked, stolen, and/or manipulated digital material."

The letter also reportedly includes a request for the conservative news outlet to "preserve all documents potentially relevant to the allegations in this letter." It also states that "we anticipate that litigation against FOX ... is imminent."

Newsweek has requested a copy of the letter sent by Geragos & Geragos to Fox News.

Fox News released a separate statement to Newsweek about the letter it received from Hunter Biden's attorneys.

"Hunter Biden's lawyers have belatedly chosen to publicly attack Fox News' constitutionally protected coverage regarding their client," the statement said. "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. Consistent with the First Amendment, Fox News has accurately covered these highly publicized events as well as the subsequent indictment of an FBI informant who was the source of certain claims made about Mr. Biden."

In an emailed response to Newsweek, attorney Mark J. Geragos said Fox News should retract the statement.

"Predictably Fox News has once again doubled down on its efforts to mislead the public," Geragos said. "In its statement today, Fox falsely states that Hunter Biden was the subject of an investigation by Congress, mischaracterizes the plain facts of his litigation, and intentionally avoids telling their audience that their attacks on Hunter were 'based' on an informant who lied. We demand that Fox immediately retract and correct today's statement which is the latest example of its relentless attack on Hunter Biden in complete disregard for the truth."