First Lady Melania Trump has threatened to sue Hunter Biden for $1 billion over “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements.”
Fox News exclusively obtained a letter sent to Biden from Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito, where Brito ordered that the former president’s son “immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump” that were made in a video interview and aired earlier this month.
Biden claimed in the interview that “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump.”
“Failure to comply will leave Mrs. Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to her to recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that you have caused her to suffer,” Brito wrote, adding, “These false, disparaging, defamatory, and inflammatory statements are extremely salacious and have been widely disseminated throughout various digital mediums.”
“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,” the letter read, asserting that the statements have “caused Mrs. Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm.”
Biden has since condemned Trump’s threat, saying during an appearance on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan, “That’s not going to happen.”
After Democratic strategist James Carville made similar claims against Melania Trump, he issued an apology and retracted the statement.
“In last week’s podcast episode, we spoke with Judd Legum,” he said on his “Politics War Room” podcast. “After the episode, we received a letter from Melania Trump’s lawyer. He took issue with our title of one of those YouTube videos from that episode and a couple of comments I made about the first lady. We took a look at what they complained about, and we took down the video and edited out those comments from the episode. I also take back these statements and apologize.”
