First lady Melania Trump has threatened to sue Hunter Biden for more than $1 billion if he doesn’t retract his claim that she was introduced to President Donald Trump by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein — but the president’s political rival isn’t backing down.
On Aug. 6, Melania Trump’s lawyer Alejandro Brito issued a legal notice calling Biden’s comments “false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory,” demanding he “immediately retract” them, according to USA Today.
The claim was made during an interview earlier this month on the Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan YouTube show, when Biden said:
“They spent an enormous amount of time together. That’s how Melania, and the first lady and the president met. Yeah, according to Michael Wolff.”
When Callaghan asked if he wanted to apologize to the first lady, Biden replied:
“F— that. That’s not going to happen,” citing 2019 news reports that “sources said that Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be the person to introduce Donald Trump to Melania at that time.”
Melania Trump married Donald Trump in 2005. Her husband has denied Epstein had any role in their relationship. On Aug. 14, President Trump told Fox Radio’s Brian Kilmeade:
“Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania. But they do that to demean. I told her to go ahead and do it. She was very upset about it.”
Trump’s association with Epstein — whom he once described as a “Palm Beach fixture” — has faced renewed scrutiny, particularly after Elon Musk referenced it during their public feud. Trump has said he had a “falling out” with Epstein in the mid-2000s.
Hunter Biden, who was pardoned by his father after pleading guilty to tax violations and being convicted on firearms-related charges, dismissed Melania Trump’s legal threat as a “designed distraction.”
“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,” he said. “I don’t know how that in any way rises to the level of defamation to begin with.”
Biden argued that Trump’s Epstein ties are “so glaringly obvious” the lawsuit threat is meant to divert attention.
“I also think they’re bullies,” he added.
He said he would be “happy” to provide a platform for the Trumps to sit for a deposition:
“I think the entire world would love to finally get to the bottom of the true nature of their relationship.”
