Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden for $1bn
The son of former US President Joe Biden made the comments during a YouTube interview with Channel 5 host Andrew Callaghan early this month. In particular, Biden alleged that Epstein introduced Melania to Trump back in the day, citing a book by American journalist Michael Wolff, and said the connections between the late sex trafficker and the Trumps 'are, like, so wide and deep.'
Shortly after the explosive interview, the first lady's attorney,Alejandro Brito, sent Biden a letter threatening him with a $1 billion lawsuit. The letter, dated August 6 and circulated by the US media this week, demanded Biden 'immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump' or face the massive suit needed to 'recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that you have caused her to suffer.'
The US president, who is no stranger to filing massive litigation lawsuits himself, has backed the looming legal action against Biden.
'I said go forward. You know, I've done pretty well on these lawsuits lately … and Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania and introducing,' Trump told Fox News Radio host Brian Kilmeade on Thursday. Previously, the US president accused Wolff of making up his stories to sell books and dismissed him as a 'third-rate reporter.'
Biden reappeared on Callaghan's show on Thursday, being offered an opportunity to apologize. The ex-president's son, however, refused to do so, standing by his original remarks.
'F**k that, that's not going to happen,' he said. '[Epstein and Trump] knew each other well, they spent an enormous amount of time together.' Biden once again invoked Wolff's claims, as well as cited several other publications alleging the link between the first lady and Epstein.
According to the first lady's best-selling memoir, 'Melania,' she met her future husband at a 1998 Fashion Week party in New York, where the two were introduced by a modeling agent.
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