Hunter Biden has responded brutally to Melania Trump’s threat to sue him for $1 billion over statements he made about her links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Since Donald Trump returned to government for a second term in January, Epstein has been the target of conspiracy theories.
Hunter, former President Joe Biden’s son, alleged in a recent interview that Melania was introduced to Trump by a convicted paedophile.
Speaking to filmmaker Andrew Callaghan, Biden answered: “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump – the connections are so wide and deep,” adding elsewhere in the interview that the alleged Epstein files would ‘implicate’ President Trump.
Melania’s legal team responded Biden a letter, the BBC reports, challenging he retract the ‘false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory’ statement and apologize, or suffer a lawsuit of at least $1 billion.
The letter, written by lawyer Alejandro Brito, charged Biden of causing Melania ‘to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm’.
He commented: “It is obvious that you published these false and defamatory statements about Mrs. Trump to draw attention to yourself.”
The letter seen by the BBC states Biden’s claim was incompletely ascribed to journalist Michael Wolff, who said in a since-deleted Daily Beast interview that Melania was acquainted with Trump by someone with ties to both Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The Daily Beast posted an update on the story that read: “After this story was published, The Beast received a letter from First Lady Melania Trump’s attorney challenging the headline and framing of the article.
“After reviewing the matter, the Beast has taken down the article and apologizes for any confusion or misunderstanding.”
Amid the threat of a lawsuit and potentially going to court, Biden has answered a cruel response while sitting down for a recent interview with Channel 5.
When Channel 5’s Andrew Callaghan asked Hunter in a follow-up interview if he was going to apologise to Melania, he said: “F**k that, that’s not going to happen.”
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He added: “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.
“I also think they’re bullies and they think a billion dollars is going to scare me.”
The Justice Department has recorded in the past that over 200 pages of documents linking to Epstein are in their possession, while the FBI is said to have thousands more.