Hunter Biden’s legal team seems to be on a roller coaster ride: They file pleadings, then withdraw them quickly; they file lawsuits, then dismiss them. Review what Hunter Biden’s legal team has done in the last few weeks.
- Biden, just days after being convicted in Delaware of federal firearms offenses on June 30, dismissed his suit against Rudy Giuliani. He was accused of improperly accessing digital data and disseminating it from the “laptop from Hell.”
- Biden’s attorneys filed a motion to retry him on the Monday after his conviction. They then requested that it be removed from the docket and then refiled the motion the following week.
- In the motion for a new trial, Biden’s legal team argued that the court of trial had no jurisdiction at the time of trial because the Third Circuit Court of Appeals hadn’t formally returned the case to the trial court following its refusal to hear his interlocutory appellations.
- Biden’s legal team, after being humiliated by the prosecution’s response to this novel theory (which noted that the Third Circuit certified orders contained the notation “Issued instead of Mandate”), retracted the motion for a new trial.
- Biden, in the meantime, filed a lawsuit against Fox News Channel for a miniseries 2022 streamed on the network. He claimed that the network targeted Biden, “in an attempt to harass, annoy and alarm him, as well as tarnish and damage his reputation.”
At the time of filing the lawsuit, eyebrows were raised due to the nature and extent of Hunter Biden’s public antics. As I have noted:
What would it take for an observant reader to question what “tarnishes” the reputation of someone who is a crack addict, had an affair with the widow of his brother (getting her addicted to crack in the process), her sister, a stripper he fathered an unborn child with, refused to acknowledge the fact until the court forced him to, and tried to claim personal expenses such as a sex club membership as a business expense?
Biden’s lawyers have voluntarily dropped the suit just three weeks after it was filed against Fox.
NEW: Hunter Biden just dropped his lawsuit against Fox News
— Shelby Talcott (@ShelbyTalcott) July 22, 2024
It is important to note that the case has been dismissed “without prejudice”, meaning it can be refiled. The reason for dismissal is not known at this time, but considering the tumultuous nature of Biden World in the last few weeks, it’s easy to imagine the discussions that are taking place about legal maneuvers and the implications for (for the moment) the First Son.
