WASHINGTON (AP) – First Lady Melania Trump demanded that Hunter Biden caught comments that link her to sex trade Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue if he doesn't.
Trump takes problems with two comments, Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, made this month in an interview with the British journalist Andrew Callaghan. He claimed that Epstein introduced the First Lady to now-President Donald Trump.
The statements are incorrect, defamatory and 'extremely salacious', the lawyer of Melania Trump, Alejandro Brito, wrote in a letter to Biden. Biden's comments were spread on a large scale on social media and reported by media around the world, causing the First Lady to “suffer overwhelming financial and reputation damage,” he wrote.
Biden made the Epstein comments during a vast interview in which he came up with “elites” and others in the Democratic party that he thought undermined his father before stopping last year's presidential campaign.
“Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are so wide and deep,” Biden said in one of the comments Trump disputes. Biden attributed the claim to author Michael Wolff, who discarded Trump in June as a 'third rate reporter'. He has accused Wolff to come up with stories to sell books.
The threats of the First Lady reflect a favorite strategy of her husband, who has used a lawsuit to go after critics. Public figures such as the Trumps are confronted with a high bar to succeed in a resilient procedure.
The President and First Lady have long said that they were introduced by Paolo Zampolli, a model agent, at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998.
The letter was dated on August 6 and was first reported by FOX News Digital.
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer who has represented Biden in his criminal cases and to whom the letter from Brito is being tackled, did not immediately respond to a request for comments at the end of Wednesday.
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