Hunter Biden says he’s suing Fox News because they used drug addiction to ‘dehumanize’ him and take down dad

Hunter Biden is planning on suing Fox News for the way they used his addiction to “dehumanize” him and to go after his father, President Joe Biden.

His lawyers sent a letter to Fox News three weeks ago threatening to sue the network for supposedly working with Trump-allied operatives and foreign nationals supportive of Russia to defame him and using his image to make money.

The letter asked that retractions, corrections, and on-air apologies be issued for online articles and broadcasts. The attorneys told The Daily Beast that they plan on filing a lawsuit “shortly”.

“I’m not saying my addiction is an excuse for my bad behaviour,” the younger Mr Biden told the outlet. “What I’m saying is that my addiction is not an excuse for them to dehumanize me – and in doing so dehumanize everybody from the addict that you pass on the street, to the one that you live with.”

He claimed that the discovery part of a possible lawsuit would make the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit look like “pattycakes”.

Fox paid Dominion $787m in a settlement for spreading lies about the company helping to rig the 2020 election, which was called “the most secure in American history” by the then-president Donald Trump’sown cybersecurity agency.

The lawsuit revealed that the network’s top on-air personalities had been singing quite a different tune off-air in text messages even as they backed Mr Trump and his baseless claims of fraud on the air.

“Everybody that has ever thought about bringing a defamation suit is always told they’re just going to spend any legal proceeding defaming you all over again,” Mr Biden told The Daily Beast. “It’s not like I’m going to reignite some controversy over whether or not I ever smoked crack.”

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