Melania threatens to sue Hunter Biden over Epstein link - but he won't apologise
Lawyers representing the first lady sent Joe Biden's son a letter accusing him of unleashing 'false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements' about her.
Speaking to Channel 5, Biden alleged that Epstein introduced Melania to now-president Donald Trump – remarks which were widely disseminated on social media and reported by media outlets around the world.
He stressed it was 'beyond a doubt' that Trump and the paedophile were 'very close friends', adding: 'They spent an enormous time together.
'According to [Trump's] biographer, Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania.
'That is how…the first lady and the president met.'
Biden also lashed out at 'elites' and others in the Democratic Party he says undermined his father before he dropped out of last year's presidential campaign.
His other claims he attributed to author Michael Wolff, whom Trump disparaged in June as a 'Third Rate Reporter.'
The president has previously accused Wolff of making up stories to sell books. And he has also previously stated he ended his association with Epstein after a fallout in the early 2000s.
Alejandro Brito, wrote in a letter to Biden, on behalf of hic client that he caused her to suffer 'overwhelming financial and reputational harm.'
Channel 5 have since released a second interview with Biden to 'give him the opportunity to apologise' to Melania and avoid the hefty lawsuit. More Trending
With a big smile stretching across his face, he replied: 'F**k that. That won't happen.
'What I said is what I have heard and seen reported and written, primarily from Wolff.'
He added: 'I don't think these threats of a lawsuit add up to anything rather than they are designed to distract.
'It is not about who introduced who to who. I don't know how that rises to the level of defamation.'
The president and first lady have long said they were introduced by Paolo Zampolli, a modeling agent, at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998.
It was there the pair came face-to-face for the first time.
At the time, he was dating Celina Midelfart, but he requested Melania's phone number.
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