It should have been a matchup for the ages. In the red corner, a disgraced former elected official who is currently facing criminal charges and a $148 million ruling against him in a defamation case. In the blue corner, the son of a sitting American president who’s just made history by being found guilty for lying about his illegal drug use when buying a gun.
But the head-to-head battle of two of the most ignominious figures in American political life is no longer happening. Hunter Biden has agreed to drop his lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani of breaching his privacy, according to a court filing Thursday, giving both men the presumably blessed relief of one less looming legal fight to worry about.
The apparent climbdown is something of a surprise given the seriousness of what Biden accused the former New York City mayor and his former lawyer Robert Costello of when he filed the lawsuit in September. The complaint alleged they and other defendants were “among those who have been primarily responsible for what has been described as the ‘total annihilation’ of [Biden’s] digital privacy” over data they allegedly took from Biden’s infamous laptop.
