Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to Jeffrey Epstein
Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to Jeffrey Epstein
First lady threatens to sue Joe Biden’s son after he said sex offender Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/14/melania-trump-demands-hunter-biden-retract-comments-linking-her-to-jeffrey-epstein?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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The statements were false, defamatory and “extremely salacious”, Melania Trump’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, said in a letter to Biden. Biden’s remarks were widely disseminated on social media and reported by media outlets around the world, causing the first lady “to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm”, he added.
Biden made the Epstein comments during a sprawling interview with the US journalist Andrew Callaghan in which he lashed out at “elites” and others ... who he said had undermined his father before he dropped out of last year’s presidential campaign.
“Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep,” Biden said in one of the comments that the first lady disputes. Biden attributed the claim to the author Michael Wolff. Donald Trump has accused Wolff of making up stories to sell books.
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“What I said is what I have heard and seen reported and written primarily from Michael Wolff, but also dating back to 2019.” He cited a number of publications, including the New York Times and Vanity Fair, as sources of his information.
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TACO has also chimed in, “I said go forward. You know, I’ve done pretty well on these lawsuits lately … and Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania and introducing." Proof this suit will go nowhere is: she is using TACO's lawyers.
When asked if he would retract, Biden said: “Uh, fuck that, not going to happen.”
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