Former Trump aide asks judge to dismiss Hunter Biden lawsuit tied to laptop

Biden claimed in the suit that Garrett Ziegler and his company broke the law in an effort to create an online database with emails attributed to him.

A former Trump White House aide has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that alleged he violated state and federal laws in connection with the online publication of laptop content attributed to Hunter Biden.

The president’s son sued Garrett Ziegler and his company, Marco Polo, in September, claiming they broke state and federal laws in an effort to create an online searchable database with 128,000 emails attributed to Biden.

Attorneys for Ziegler, who worked on trade policy in the White House under Trump adviser Peter Navarro, argued in a 30-page filing that Biden’s legal team had not established a causal connection between Ziegler’s conduct and Biden’s claims of injury related to the data and that they failed to state "a viable claim."

“Plaintiff alleges no facts which demonstrate Defendants ever accessed any computer, storage, or service which Plaintiff either owns or has exclusive control over,” Ziegler's attorneys wrote in a filing with a federal court in the Central District of California.