CNN Anchor Confronts Hunter Biden Lawyer: ‘Was It A Mistake’ To Suggest Laptop ‘Was Fake?’

CNN anchor Abby Phillip confronted Hunter Biden attorney Tina Glandian about whether it was a “mistake” for members of Hunter’s team to suggest the laptop “was fake” — and does it hurt their case against Fox News.

Biden’s lawyers  sent a letter to Fox News and Fox Corp making demands and threatening legal action over the network’s coverage of material from a laptop that they say featured “hacked, stolen, and/or manipulated digital material.”

On Monday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip interviewed Glandian, and pressed her on claims that the laptop was not authentic:

PHILLIP: Was it a mistake, and does it hurt your case, that Hunter Biden’s attorneys, not your firm, but the other attorneys involved in this case, claimed that this was the product, that laptop and the information on it was a product of Russian disinformation? They suggested that it was fake.

GLANDIAN: Well, and this doesn’t actually say anything to contradict that. I mean, I’m not going to comment —

PHILLIP: It purports that these images are real, that the information that comes from the laptop that is in these Fox reports are real.

GLANDIAN: No. So, these are referred to as hacked, stolen, and or digitally manipulated material. So, certainly, nobody could dispute that when you when you see these images, it depicts Hunter Biden. Now, the source of that, again, that has no bearing on the fact that Fox Nation is improperly using that to commercially exploit Hunter, both for monetary gain just from the series, but also to humiliate him and, you know, to maliciously injure him by using images which they know are not with his consent.

PHILLIP: And just to be clear, I don’t want to belabor this, but for clarity’s sake, the position is still that some of these images or information from that laptop is digitally manipulated?

GLANDIAN: Nothing in our letter takes — yes, the position that we have taken, which is that these images clearly depict Hunter Biden and they’re explicit images. And these are exactly the type of images that the state, I mean, almost every state at this point has what has been labeled as revenge porn laws. And New York State enacted these in 2019.

There’s both a criminal component and a civil component. And it protects exactly this — images depicting an individual that are intimate, sexually explicit without that person’s consent. And that’s exactly what this is.

Fox News issued a statement dismissing the letter and defending their coverage.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.