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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    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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    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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      It’s a pretty good interview. He’s got a lot of good opinions and he talks very candidly about his struggles with addiction

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    Didn’t realize the colony city of Philadelphia was part of Great Britain in 1997 when Andrew Callahan was born there. But, as I’ve learned, the original “British” accent brought to the colonies was very close to the current American accent.

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        I heard it was in the NYC/NJ area, once the non-rhotic accents were excluded. But yeah, it’s never going to be fully conclusive and it won’t stay exactly the same. This is largely based on finding rhymes in poetry and trusting they were accurate then.

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      First time I’m hearing him being British. Maybe they found this photographer from the UK and got confused, or maybe saw the video on his channel that was in England?

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        I believe this is also a downgrade from the tag he got when the interview had just dropped, “a youtuber known for crossing the country in an RV” as if he wasn’t doing street-level coverage of 2020 riots/protests and doesn’t have dozens of events covered like the Area 51 Naruto Run and flat earth conventions. Oh, and somewhere in the mix: crossing the southern US border via river just to see what it’s like to get caught by border patrol.

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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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    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.