Melania Trump has demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and has threatened to sue if he does not.

Biden, the son of the former president Joe Biden, alleged in an interview this month that Epstein introduced the first lady to Donald Trump.

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 British journalist Andrew Callaghan in which he lashed out at “elites” and others in the Democratic party who he said undermined his father before he dropped out of last year’s presidential campaign.

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    Everything else aside, what kind of “financial” harm could she have possibly suffered? As if she would even know the meaning of overwhelming money loss.

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      i learned the hard way that the american system requires you to defend yourself before the accusation is supported; so you’re going to need a lawyer that knows how to manipulate the judge into forcing the support to come out before you fail your defense.

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    Biden made the Epstein comments during a sprawling interview with the British journalist Andrew Callaghan in which he lashed out at “elites” and others in the Democratic party who he said undermined his father before he dropped out of last year’s presidential campaign.

    Buddy, we all watched your dad’s brain turn into mush. We all thought that was a serious problem.

    Turns out having a mushy brain President isn’t a huge issue anyways. So maybe you were right, Hunter.

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    at “elites” and others in the Democratic party who he said undermined his father before he dropped out of last year’s presidential campaign.

    Ah yes the elites in the party who 1) didn’t run a primary and 2) let Biden pretend to be the candidate all the way up until they could no longer hide his melting brain from even the most credulous of liberals and then 3) gave the candidacy to Kamala (who had the charisma and vote total of a wet fart the last time the “Democrats” allowed the illusion of democracy) while telling her to make literally no changes or statements that might harm “Biden’s legacy”

    yes hunter i’m sure those elites definitely colluded against your dad, yup

    I hate that there are ignorant liberal fuckwits who this line of bullshit will work on.

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    What does Hunter Biden know about Epstein? Seems like the privileged failson is about to implicate his father, or at the very least his late brother.

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    The Trumps are suers (sewers). Making their money suing people.

    You know this is a bluff because there is no way Melania is entering into the discovery processes. Hunter does not fear discovery because his life has been laid bare for two years.

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    She’s e very bit the fascist lying removed her old man is obviously. Let her hang

    And I sea they removed the beach heh

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    causing the first lady “to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm”, he added.

    More harm than her reputation suffered by marrying that shitbag? I doubt it.

    “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.

    This is a case that can easily be won because he’s citing what others said before him rather than making an independent claim. Not that he’ll get a fair trial from this DOJ or the corrupt judges appointed by the shitbag, but oh well.

    “Help, help! Some crack-smoking guy who my team loves to shit on repeated a claim that makes me embarrassed in front of our braindead supporters!” Boo hoo, you fucking tyrant-fellating asshole. Have another.

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    I dont think she has a leg to stand on with thr amont of claims trump has made about hunter biden and pretty much every person