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Hunter Biden gives blunt two-word response to Melania Trump’s threats of $1 billion defamation lawsuit
Hunter Biden gives blunt two-word response to Melania Trump’s threats of $1 billion defamation lawsuit
Hunter Biden has refused to apologize to First Lady Melania Trump after she threatened him with legal action for “over $1bn in damages” if he failed to retract comments he made linking her to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“F*** that! That’s not going to happen,” Biden laughed during a new interview with British journalist Andrew Callaghan, the same person he was speaking to in July when he made the allegations that apparently enraged the first lady.
“First of all is that, what I said was what I have heard and seen reported and written, primarily from Michael Wolff but also dating back all the way to 2019 when The New York Times – I think Annie Carney and and Maggie Haberman – reported that sources said that Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be the person to introduce Donald Trump to Melania at that time,” Biden continued.
But the primary source was the interviews that Michael Wolff has been conducting, in which he has actually tapes of, I think, hours and hours and hours of interviews with Jeffrey Epstein directly.
“So, you know, 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 designed distraction because it’s not about who introduced whom to who. I don’t know how that in any way rises to the level of defamation to begin with.”
Lawyers for Trump had objected to two statements made by Biden, the son of former president Joe Biden, in a YouTube interview he gave to Callaghan last month.
In the sprawling discussion in question, Biden alleged that it was Epstein who first introduced Melania to Trump in the late 1990s, when she was a fashion model and he a luxury property magnate with no known political aspirations.
The statements are false, defamatory, and “extremely salacious,” Melania Trump’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, wrote in the letter to Biden.