The implication in the Carlson segments, picked up on by other Fox News personalities, was that the money was being laundered to Joe Biden before he was elected president., Bryan Sullivan asked Carlson and Fox News Media General Counsel Bernard Guger for an acknowledgement that the network “errored by not verifying the information underlying the so-called ‘rent’ story and relying on information that it knew was described as ‘wild speculation.
In his segment, Carlson claimed that the payment was for “housing costs.” He said, “So how did a disgraced drug addict with no job skills make enough money to make a $50,000 a month rent payment? Who is paying and how much are they paying him, and why were they paying him? And by the way, what classified documents keep appearing in homes that Hunter Biden lived in?” The latter was a reference to the discovering of documents with classified markings found at Joe Biden’s Wilmington home.
Other Fox News personalities, including Sean Hannity and Jeanine Pirro, picked up on the story. Fox News anchor John Roberts said, “Hunter Biden listed that Wilmington home as his primary residence that he was renting for $50,000 a month. And I assume that the documents were in the garage at that time.”
But Sullivan pointed out that Devine had sent “cautionary tweets” about the $50,000 per-month-rent, noting that the claims that it was for the Wilmington home were “wild speculation.”