Fox News pulled down a mini-series on Hunter Biden after facing a lawsuit threat from the first son’s lawyers, the network confirmed on Tuesday.
The six-part program, “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” had been available on Fox Nation, the network’s digital streaming platform, but will stay down at least temporarily pending a review, per the network.
“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,” a Fox News spokesperson told The Post.
A day prior, Hunter Biden’s lawyers penned a scathing letter to the cable news giant, accusing it of publishing “hacked” intimate images of the scandal-plagued 54-year-old.
They demanded Fox News issue a series of retractions and corrections for its reporting on Biden’s overseas business machinations.
“For the last five years, Fox News has relentlessly attacked Hunter Biden and made him a caricature in order to boost ratings and for its financial gain,” attorneys Mark Geragos, Bryan Freedman and Tina Glandian said, per the Washington Post.
They also specifically called on the network to remove “The Trial of Hunter Biden” mock trial series, which was released in 2022.
“The Trial of Hunter Biden” used a mix of actors and real material to depict what a trial of the first son would be like.
Hunter Biden’s legal team blasted the series as a distortion.
“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,” they wrote.
“Thus, the viewer of the series cannot decipher what is fact and what is fiction, which is highly damaging to Mr. Biden.”
Fox News had fired back at the demands for retractions and corrections.
“Hunter Biden’s lawyers have belatedly chosen to publicly attack Fox News’ constitutionally protected coverage regarding their client,” the network 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.”
Hunter Biden is facing two indictments out of California and Delaware for nine tax charges as well as three charges related to illegal possession of a firearm while addicted to illicit drugs.
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges thus far and is battling special counsel David Weiss over a collapsed plea deal.
Additionally, Republican investigators in Congress have probed the first son’s overseas business dealings and accused the first family of influence peddling.
Hunter Biden’s team has begun more forcefully pushing back publicly against criticisms against him and his father. He is a central figure in the House GOP impeachment inquiry of President Biden.
Fox News is a subsidiary of Fox Corporation. The executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corp., Lachlan Murdoch, is also the chair of News Corporation, the parent company of The Post.
