The “sugar brother” of President Biden’s son, Hunter, is threatening authorized motion in opposition to legal protection legal professional and Fox Information contributor Johnathan Actually, accusing him of defamation.
Kevin Morris, a Hollywood legal professional and private confidant to the youthful Biden sat for a transcribed interview with the Home Oversight Committee as a part of Home Republicans’ sweeping probe into President Biden’s household and its previous overseas enterprise dealings.
In a 2022 column, Turley commented on Morris’ place as a central determine in planning a “scorched Earth campaign” in opposition to “any investigation into the Bidens’ alleged multimillion-dollar influence-peddling schemes.”
That plan, Turley famous, included “hitting critics…with possible defamation lawsuits.”
Quick-forward simply over a 12 months later — following his Home committee interview during which he revealed he gave “massive’ financial support to Hunter Biden” — Morris could also be following by on his plan.
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Hunter Biden, heart, and his attorneys Abbe Lowell, proper, and Kevin Morris, left, arrive for a Home Oversight and Accountability Committee assembly. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)
“On Wednesday, I received a letter from Bryan M. Sullivan, a partner at Early Sullivan Wright Gizer & McRae LLP, who is the lawyer of Kevin Morris (who is the lawyer for Hunter Biden). The letter warns that I could face a defamation action if I do not retract (or if I repeat) my criticism of Morris’s representational relationship with Hunter,” Jonathan Turley wrote in his Friday column.
“In his letter, Sullivan attacks my reference to ethics rules as unworthy of a professor as well as ‘blatantly misleading and just bad lawyering,'” mentioned Turley.
“That tirade about my lack of knowledge and principles is followed by a demand for an immediate retraction and adds ‘if you repeat your baseless charges, you understand that accusing someone of violating the law is defamation per se,’” he continued.
Turley acknowledged that he “will not issue a retraction despite the threats of Morris and Sullivan.”
As an alternative, he revealed one other column within the New York Publish, repeating his “objections to Morris’s blurry representational claims.”
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Hunter Biden, flanked by Kevin Morris, left, and Abbe Lowell, proper. (Kent Nishimura)
“The effort in such threats is to silence or chill critics in their criticism of a wealthy, powerful public figure like Mr. Morris,” Turley acknowledged.
Within the Publish column, Turley mentioned that following his Home testimony, the “question that lingered then, and now, is who is Kevin Morris.”
“The Hollywood lawyer, producer and Democratic donor has emerged as a major figure in the corruption scandal surrounding Hunter Biden. For years, some of us have complained that we are not sure what Morris was at any given moment,” Turley acknowledged.
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Hunter Biden, heart, and his attorneys Abbe Lowell, proper, and Kevin Morris, left, go away the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)
“What became clear in the deposition is that Morris does not appear certain himself,” he added.
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“He’s Hunter’s confidant, sugar brother, business partner, pitbull and his lawyer.”
“That could prove his undoing … both for himself and his client,” mentioned Turley.