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Trump told Melania to ‘go forward' with legal action against Hunter Biden over Epstein relationship comments
President Donald Trump confirmed Thursday morning that Melania Trump's attorneys are threatening legal action against Hunter Biden, saying he told her to 'go forward.' 'You know, I've done pretty well on these lawsuits lately. And I said, go forward. Jeffrey Epstein has nothing to do with Melania and I introducing. But they do that. They make up stories,' he told Brian Kilmeade on Fox News radio. The legal threat centers on a claim Biden made in an interview on YouTube about the Trumps' relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, according to the journalist who conducted the interview and a copy of the attorney letter obtained by Fox News. Andrew Callaghan, host of the YouTube series Channel 5, said on his channel that he had received a legal demand from the first lady asking to retract a video from last week, which currently has 1.3 million views. Melania Trump is seeking $1 billion in damages if they don't take down the video. She also wants a formal apology from Hunter Biden. 'In my hand is a legal demand letter addressed to Mr. Hunter Biden from the first lady of the United States, demanding a retraction of Channel 5's video called 'Hunter Biden returns' in which Mr. Biden here makes some speculative comments about the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein, Melania Trump and Donald Trump,' Callaghan said at the beginning of a follow-up interview with Biden posted on Thursday. Fox News also posted a copy of a letter, addressed to Hunter Biden and his lawyer, that asked Biden to 'retract the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump' during the YouTube interview. 'First Lady Melania Trump's attorneys are actively ensuring immediate retractions and apologies by those who spread malicious, defamatory falsehoods. The true account of how the First Lady met President Trump is in her best-selling book, 'Melania,'' her spokesperson Nick Clemens said in a statement when asked about the letter. Hunter had a defiant response to the request for an apology telling Callaghan in another video interview posted on August 14, 'F**k that. That's not gonna happen.' The legal demands center on an August 5 video of Callaghan's show, in which Hunter Biden spoke about the Trumps' relationship with Epstein, citing Michael Wolff. In Callaghan's latest interview with Hunter Biden, the two discuss the legal demand from the first lady, and Biden suggests it could result in the president and first lady clarifying their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in a deposition. 'I have this to say to them: If they want to sit down for a deposition and clarify the nature of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein — if the president and the first lady want to do that and all the known associates around them at the time, whatever time that they met, I'm more than happy to provide them the platform to be able to do it,' Biden said in the interview released on Thursday. 'Fact of the matter is that, you know, I don't think that these threats of a lawsuit add up to anything other than a design distraction, because it's not about who introduced whom to whom. I don't know how that in any way rises to the level of defamation to begin with,' Biden added.
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Yahoo
Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden over ‘salacious' Epstein comments
US first lady Melania Trump has demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue if he does not. Ms Trump takes issue with two comments Mr Biden, son of former president Joe Biden, made in an interview this month with American journalist Andrew Callaghan. He alleged that Epstein introduced the first lady to now-President Donald Trump. The statements are false, defamatory and 'extremely salacious' Melania Trump's lawyer, Alejandro Brito, wrote in a letter to Mr Biden. Mr Biden's remarks were widely disseminated on social media and reported by media outlets around the world, causing the first lady 'to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm', he wrote. Mr Biden made the Epstein comments during a sprawling interview in which he 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. 'Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep,' Mr Biden said in one of the comments Ms Trump disputes. Mr Biden attributed the claim to author Michael Wolff, whom Mr Trump disparaged in June as a 'Third Rate Reporter'. He has accused Mr Wolff of making up stories to sell books. The first lady's threats echo a favoured strategy of her husband, who has aggressively used litigation to go after critics. Public figures like the Trumps face a high bar to succeed in a defamation case. The president and first lady have long said they were introduced by Paolo Zampolli, a modelling agent, at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998. The letter is dated August 6 and was first reported on Wednesday by Fox News Digital. Abbe Lowell, a lawyer who has represented Mr Biden in his criminal cases and to whom Brito's letter is addressed, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Yahoo
Melania Trump threatens to sue Hunter Biden over ‘salacious' Epstein comments
US first lady Melania Trump has demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue if he does not. Ms Trump takes issue with two comments Mr Biden, son of former president Joe Biden, made in an interview this month with American journalist Andrew Callaghan. He alleged that Epstein introduced the first lady to now-President Donald Trump. The statements are false, defamatory and 'extremely salacious' Melania Trump's lawyer, Alejandro Brito, wrote in a letter to Mr Biden. Mr Biden's remarks were widely disseminated on social media and reported by media outlets around the world, causing the first lady 'to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm', he wrote. Mr Biden made the Epstein comments during a sprawling interview in which he 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. 'Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep,' Mr Biden said in one of the comments Ms Trump disputes. Mr Biden attributed the claim to author Michael Wolff, whom Mr Trump disparaged in June as a 'Third Rate Reporter'. He has accused Mr Wolff of making up stories to sell books. The first lady's threats echo a favoured strategy of her husband, who has aggressively used litigation to go after critics. Public figures like the Trumps face a high bar to succeed in a defamation case. The president and first lady have long said they were introduced by Paolo Zampolli, a modelling agent, at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998. The letter is dated August 6 and was first reported on Wednesday by Fox News Digital. Abbe Lowell, a lawyer who has represented Mr Biden in his criminal cases and to whom Brito's letter is addressed, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
