Hunter Biden seems to have launched his first actual counteroffensive towards Fox Information and Trumpworld. This week, Bryan Sullivan, a lawyer representing President Joe Biden’s son, dispatched letters to Fox Information and Tucker Carlson demanding an on-air retraction from the host for accusing the primary household of taking part in a cash laundering scheme, based on The Washington Submit. One other of Biden’s attorneys, Abbe Lowell, has additionally despatched letters to the Delaware lawyer basic and the Justice Division calling for investigations into these chargeable for extracting, disseminating, and selling materials from Biden’s laptop computer, the contents of which had been leaked to the press in 2020.
In similar statements despatched to NBC, CBS, and The Washington Submit, an nameless “individual accustomed to the primary son’s technique” promoted this pivot to a extra aggressive authorized tactic in dramatic phrases: “This marks a brand new method by Hunter Biden and his workforce. He isn’t going to sit down quietly by as questionable characters proceed to violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies attempt to defame him.”
The letters particularly requested that the Justice Division’s nationwide safety division probe the “people for whom there may be appreciable purpose to consider violated varied federal legal guidelines in accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating Mr. Biden’s private laptop information,” per NBC Information.
“The actions described above greater than benefit a full investigation and, relying on the ensuing details, might benefit prosecution beneath varied statutes,” learn the letters to state and federal authorities. “It’s not a standard factor for a non-public individual and his counsel to hunt another person being investigated, however the actions and motives right here require it.”
Conservative media personalities and Republican lawmakers have been obsessing over Biden’s laptop computer ever since supplies from it first appeared within the New York Submit greater than two years in the past. The correct-wing fever round Biden has escalated to the halls of Congress, the place the brand new Republican Home majority has opened an investigation into the president’s household. They’ve known as on the Treasury Division to share monetary data pertaining to the Biden household and requested testimony from Twitter executives over the corporate’s communications with the Biden workforce across the laptop computer story (particularly a request that Twitter take away nude photos of Biden that had been leaked from his laptop computer). Till now, Biden has stored a comparatively low profile as his father begins his third 12 months within the White Home.
Of curiosity to Biden’s legal professionals are Trump ally Steve Bannon, who claimed he was in possession of Biden’s laborious drive in October 2020, and Rudy Giuliani, who, shortly earlier than the 2020 election, offered the New York Submit with information that appeared to have stemmed from a laptop computer Biden dropped off at a Delaware restore store. (On his podcast, Giuliani responded to the Biden lawyer by calling the threats “unethical” and “frivolous.”)
The proprietor of the pc restore retailer, John Paul Mac Isaac, who has grow to be a minor conservative superstar for purportedly serving because the catalyst to the scandal, was additionally talked about within the letters. Biden’s legal professionals consider he might have violated state legal guidelines by accessing information on the laptop computer. “These illegal actions brought on the widespread publication, manipulation, and exploitation of Mr. Biden’s most private data,” Lowell wrote, per The Submit, including that Mac Isaac had no purpose “to evaluate the contents of any [financial] information” to restore Biden’s laptop computer. “Mr. Biden didn’t consent to Mr. Mac Isaac having access to the content material of these information in April 2019 or at every other time.”
In a Wednesday assertion to The Submit, Mac Isaac’s lawyer, Brian Della Rocca, disregarded Lowell’s letters. “The one factor I see is a privileged individual hiring yet one more high-priced lawyer to redirect consideration away from his personal illegal actions,” Della Rocca stated.
As for Fox Information, Sullivan wrote that Carlson should retract a narrative he aired falsely claiming that Biden despatched his father $50,000 in month-to-month housing funds, which supposedly served as a stream for illicit funds. (In truth, based on The Submit, Hunter Biden spent $49,910 each three months on workplace area in Washington.)
