First lady Melania Trump is demanding Hunter Biden retract and apologize for comments that linked her to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
She is seeking $1 billion in damages over comments Hunter Biden, the son of former President Biden, made in an interview last month with YouTube personality Andrew Callaghan.
In the July conversation, the younger Biden alleged Epstein was the one who introduced the first lady to her husband, President Trump, citing author Michael Wolff, who has been regularly ridiculed by the president and others.
In a letter dated Aug. 6, an attorney for Melania Trump called the comments from Hunter Biden “false, disparaging, defamatory” and “extremely salacious.”
In an interview posted to YouTube on Thursday, Callaghan held the letter and offered Hunter Biden an opportunity to apologize to the first lady.
“Uh, f‑‑‑ that. That’s not gonna happen,” Biden responded.
Fox News first reported on the letter.
The president’s connections to Epstein have been in the spotlight for weeks amid a push from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for the government to release more information about the Epstein case — most notably after the Justice Department and FBI issued a joint statement concluding he did not keep a “client list” and affirmed that his 2019 death was a suicide.
Epstein, accused in several cases of sex trafficking young girls, ran in high-powered circles with figures that included President Trump, former President Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew and a number of other celebrities and wealthy people. The late financier’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been convicted of sex trafficking and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
Trump said previously that he had a falling out with Epstein after he “stole” workers from his Mar-a-Lago resort.
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