Former US President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has faced a legal warning from First Lady Melania Trump after repeating claims that she was introduced to Donald Trump by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The first lady is demanding more than $1 billion if Biden does not retract the statements. The notice, sent on August 6, comes after Biden made the assertions during an interview on the YouTube show Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan.
Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito, described Biden’s remarks as “false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory” and called for their immediate retraction.
BIDEN HITS BACK AT MELANIA
Despite the threat, Hunter Biden pushed back on August 14, using strong language in his response. “F*** that. That’s not going to happen,” he said during the interview, citing newspaper reports dating back to 2019 that suggested Epstein claimed to have introduced Trump to Melania.
“They spent an enormous amount of time together,” Biden said of the president and Epstein. “That’s how Melania, and the first lady and the president met. Yeah, according to Michael Wolff,” he added, referring to the author of several Trump-focused books.
Biden’s remarks come amid ongoing scrutiny of his legal history. He was pardoned by his father after pleading guilty to tax violations and previously convicted on firearms-related charges.
TRUMP DEFENDS MELANIA
Melania Trump, who married Donald Trump in 2005, has repeatedly denied any connection to Epstein, calling the claims “false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory.”
Donald Trump supported his wife’s legal efforts, saying in an August 14 interview with Fox Radio’s Brian Kilmeade: “Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania. But they do that to demean. I told her to go ahead and do it. She was very upset about it.”
The couple’s association with Epstein, who died in 2019 while in federal custody, has been in focus. Trump previously stated he had a “falling out” with Epstein in the mid-2000s and described him as a “Palm Beach fixture.”
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