Hunter Biden has dismissed First Lady Melania Trump’s $1 billion legal threat over remarks she claims were “false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory.”
“F--- that. That’s not gonna happen,” Biden said in a profanity-laced interview with “Channel 5” podcaster Andrew Callaghan, posted on YouTube Thursday.
Callaghan brought up the dispute, noting that Trump’s legal team is demanding Biden apologize for statements he made in an early August interview titled “Hunter Biden Returns.” In that appearance, Biden claimed, “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep.”
“Mrs. Trump is seeking $1 billion in damages if we don’t take the video down, and if Hunter here doesn’t issue a formal apology to Mrs. Trump,” Callaghan said, offering Biden a chance to apologize. Biden refused, instead saying he was open to a deposition.
“I also think they’re bullies, and they think that a billion dollars is going to scare me,” he said. “If they want to sit down for a deposition and clarify the nature of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein—if the president, the first lady, want to do that, and all of the known associates around them at the time they met—I’m more than happy to provide them the platform to do it.”
Fox News Digital obtained the letter sent Aug. 6 by Alejandro Brito, the first lady’s litigation counsel, to Biden and his attorney Abbe Lowell. Brito demanded Biden “immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements” from the Channel 5 video.
Brito warned that failure to comply would leave Mrs. Trump “no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies” to recover the “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” caused.
The letter also noted that Biden’s earlier claims about Epstein introducing Melania to Trump were “extremely salacious” and widely circulated across media outlets, social media, and political commentary platforms, reaching tens of millions of people worldwide.
On behalf of the first lady, Brito demanded Biden issue both a “full and fair retraction” and an apology, in a manner as visible as the original publication of his statements.