Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, had sturdy phrases for first girl Melania Trump and her threats to sue him for $1 billion over feedback he made concerning the Trumps and convicted intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Mrs. Trump is demanding an apology, and she or he desires the YouTube collection “Channel 5” to take down the video that aired on Aug. 5 during which Biden speculated that Epstein launched the Trumps throughout the Nineteen Nineties on the peak of Epstein’s baby intercourse trafficking ring.
For his half, Biden, who was pardoned by his father after pleading responsible to tax evasion and was convicted on weapons fees, rejected an apology. “F*ck that. It’s not gonna occur.”
In an Aug. 14 Instagram publish, Biden appeared in a brand new “Channel 5” video with host Andrew Callaghan.
“It’s lawsuit time,” Callaghan mentioned.
“In my hand is a authorized letter addressed to Mr. Hunter Biden from the primary girl of the USA demanding a retraction of Channel 5’s video known as ‘Hunter Biden Returns’ during which Mr. Biden right here makes some speculative feedback concerning the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein, Melania Trump and Donald Trump,” Callaghan intoned as he launched the brand new episode with Hunter Biden.
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Fox Information additionally posted a replica of a letter to Biden and his lawyer asking Biden to “retract the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump” throughout the “Channel 5” interview final week.
“First Girl Melania Trump’s attorneys are actively making certain speedy retractions and apologies by those that unfold malicious, defamatory falsehoods. The true account of how the First Girl met President Trump is in her best-selling e book, ‘Melania,’” her spokesman Nick Clemens mentioned in a press release, in response to reporting by CNN.
President Donald Trump mentioned Thursday morning that he pushed Melania to “go ahead” with the authorized motion.
“You recognize, I’ve completed fairly properly on these lawsuits these days. And I mentioned, go ahead. Jeffrey Epstein has nothing to do with Melania and I introducing. However they do this. They make up tales,” he instructed Brian Kilmeade on Fox Information radio.
The feedback in query began with Biden referring to the connection between the Trumps and the disgraced financier within the earlier interview.
“OK, they knew one another properly. They spent an infinite period of time collectively. In accordance with his biographer is that Jeffrey Epstein launched Melania. That’s how Melania and — the primary girl — and Trump met,” Biden mentioned within the earlier Channel 5 final week.
“Actually? Epstein made the intro?” Callaghan requested.
“Yeah, in response to Michael Wolff. And, so, I solely can go by what persons are saying, and I don’t know,” Biden continued.
“You didn’t make these claims out of nowhere,” Callaghan remarked. “They arrive from one other journalist, Michael Wolff, who’s a biographer who really spoke to Jeffrey Epstein.”
Epstein tapped Wolff, a best-selling writer, to write down his biography. Wolff says he has over 100 hours of tape with the convicted trafficker, who authorities mentioned died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019.
The newest “Channel 5” interview with Hunter Biden, revealed on Aug. 14, suggests a lawsuit over his Epstein feedback may finish in a deposition with the Trumps being required to make clear their relationship with the intercourse trafficker.
“I’ve this to say to them: In the event that they need to sit down for a deposition and make clear the character of the connection between Jeffrey Epstein — if the president and the primary girl need to do this and all of the recognized associates round them on the time, no matter time that they met, I’m very happy to supply them the platform to have the ability to do it,” Biden instructed Callaghan
“Reality of the matter is that, you realize, I don’t assume that these threats of a lawsuit add as much as something aside from a designed distraction, as a result of it’s not about who launched whom to whom. I don’t know the way that in any means rises to the extent of defamation to start with,” he added.
Meantime, the president confirmed Thursday morning he’s instructed his spouse’s attorneys to “go ahead” with a lawsuit towards “Channel 5” and Biden.
