Hunter Biden has issued a brutal response to Melania Trump threatening him with a $1 billion lawsuit over claims he made about her links to Jeffrey Epstein.
Ever since Donald Trump returned to office in January for a second term, conspiracy theories about Epstein have hounded him.
Former president Joe Biden’s son Hunter claimed in a recent interview that Melania was introduced to Trump by the convicted paedophile.
Speaking to filmmaker Andrew Callaghan, Biden claimed: “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 issued Biden a letter, the BBC reports, demanding he retract the ‘false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory’ statement and apologize, or face a lawsuit of at least $1 billion.
The letter, written by lawyer Alejandro Brito, accused Biden of causing Melania ‘to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm’.
He added: “It is obvious that you published these false and defamatory statements about Mrs. Trump to draw attention to yourself.”
Melania’s legal team are threatening to sue (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
The letter seen by the BBC states Biden’s claim was partially attributed to journalist Michael Wolff, who said in a since-deleted Daily Beast interview that Melania was introduced to 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 issued a brutal 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 continued: “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.”
It should be worth noting there’s no verified evidence that Epstein was involved when Melania was introduced to Trump, with the First Lady claiming all along she and her now-husband met at a 1998 modelling agency party.
Convicted pedophile Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, New York City in August 2019.
The financier had been arrested earlier in the year and died aged 66 while awaiting trial for charges related to sex trafficking – charges to which he pleaded not guilty.
The Justice Department has said in the past that over 200 pages of documents relating to Epstein are in their possession, while the FBI is said to have thousands more.
