First lady Melania Trump is demanding that Hunter Biden apologize for and retract remarks he made linking her to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and is seeking $1 billion in damages.
Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, made the comments in a July interview with YouTube personality Andrew Callaghan. In that conversation, he alleged that Epstein introduced Melania Trump to her husband, President Donald Trump, citing author Michael Wolff as the source.
In an Aug. 6 letter, Melania Trump’s attorney called Hunter Biden’s statements “false, disparaging, defamatory,” and “extremely salacious.”
The letter, sent by Miami lawyer Alejandro Brito, cited Florida’s pre-suit defamation statute and warned that failure to issue an immediate retraction would leave the first lady “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.”…