Hunter Biden sues former Trump aide over release of laptop materials online
LA TimesHunter Biden, seen last year at the White House, filed the lawsuit in California federal court. Hunter Biden sued a former Trump administration aide in California federal court Wednesday, alleging that he published emails, images, videos and recordings belonging to Biden online. Ziegler, a former aide to White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, has emerged in far-right media circles as one of the Biden family’s most outspoken critics. Ziegler has said his “nonprofit research group” Marco Polo has posted online over the last two years thousands of emails, photos, text messages and other documents purportedly from Hunter Biden’s iPhone backup and cloud storage. Biden’s attorneys say Ziegler “has waged a sustained, unhinged and obsessed campaign against and the entire Biden family for more than two years.” The filing describes how Ziegler and the 10 unnamed defendants allegedly obtained data belonging to Hunter Biden from other Trump allies in January 2021 and disseminated “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings” on the internet.