Hunter Biden’s Attorney Issues Legal Threat Over Tucker Carlson, Fox News Segments About $50,000 Rent Payments
deadline.comAn attorney representing Hunter Biden has fired off a legal threat to Tucker Carlson and Fox News, demanding a retraction for segments suggesting that Biden made nearly $50,000-a-month in housing rent payments to his father President Joe Biden.
The implication in the Carlson segments, picked up on by other Fox News personalities, was that the money was being laundered to Joe Biden before he was elected president.
In the letter, Bryan Sullivan asked Carlson and Fox News Media General Counsel Bernard Guger for an acknowledgement that the network “errored by not verifying the information underlying the so-called ‘rent’ story and relying on information that it knew was described as ‘wild speculation.'” Sullivan also is asking for other statements to be made on air, including an apology.
Carlson’s segment on Jan. 16 cited a rental application background check form allegedly filled out by Hunter Biden in 2018. In the application, which was first posted online by an anonymous Twitter user and was claimed to have come from Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive, there was a reference to a rent payment that totaled nearly $50,000 per month.
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