Donald Trump has revealed his role in Melania’s $1 billion lawsuit threat to Hunter Biden over his comments about Jeffrey Epstein.
The US President's wife of nearly two decades has threatened to sue Hunter, the son of former President Joe Biden, who made some bold claims about how they met.
He alleged that Trump's former friend Epstein, a sex offender who died by suicide in a New York prison cell in 2019, was responsible for introducing him to his third wife.
"Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep," Biden said in an interview with Channel 5's Andrew Callaghan on 5 August.
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He said the claims were attributed to Trump biographer Michael Wolff, who previously told The Daily Beast Podcast that he received 'the last message from him before he died'.
Hunter's suggestion, however, doesn't match up with what Melania wrote in her self-titled memoir in 2024.
The First Lady, 55, claims she first met Trump, 79, at the Kit Kat Klub in New York City while he was on a date with another woman in 1998.
On Thursday (14 August), the Republican leader revealed that he 'let her use my lawyers' and told her, 'let’s go ahead and do it'.
He urged her to 'go forward with it', adding that he's 'done pretty well' with his own recent lawsuits.
It comes after Melania's lawyer wrote a letter to Biden, 55, demanding a full retraction of the interview, which was shared on YouTube.
"These false, disparaging, defamatory, and inflammatory statements are extremely salacious and have been widely disseminated throughout various digital mediums," Trump's attorney, Alejandro Brito, wrote in the letter, as seen by Fox News.
"Indeed, the video has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide."
Brito requested the former president's son to 'immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump'.
The lawyer threatened to sue him for $1 billion if he didn't agree to their terms, claiming that it caused 'overwhelming financial and reputational harm'.
Biden was given until 7 August to agree to their demands, which included an apology. Instead, he went back on Callaghan's show and said: "F**k that, that's not gonna happen."
"I don't think that these threats of a lawsuit add up to anything other than a distraction because it's not about who introduced whom to whom," Biden said. "I don't know how that, in any way, rises to the level of defamation to begin with."
Nick Clemens, a spokesperson for Melania, told PEOPLE: "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."
Topics: Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, US News, Politics, Hunter Biden
Anish Vij