Politics
NEW: Melania Trump Hits Hunter Biden With $1 Billion Defamation Notice
First Lady Melania Trump has presented Hunter Biden with a $1 billion legal notice over what she claims are “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” made about her in a recent interview with a popular YouTuber. The First Lady is demanding that Biden immediately remove and retract the content in question or face legal action.
In a letter sent to Hunter Biden and his attorney, Abbe Lowell, Alejandro Brito, attorney serving as litigation counsel for the first lady, demanded that Biden “immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump,” which were made in an interview with YouTuber Andrew Callaghan on August 6.
“Failure to comply will leave Mrs. Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to her to recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that you have caused her to suffer,” Brito wrote in the letter, which was obtained by Fox News.
The interview, titled “Hunter Biden Returns,” went viral earlier this month due to the former First Son’s profanity-laced rants and instructions on how to make illegal drugs, among other things. At one point in the interview, Biden claimed that “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep.”
Former President Biden’s son further claimed that “Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania, and that’s how Melania and the first lady and the President met.”
“These false, disparaging, defamatory, and inflammatory statements are extremely salacious and have been widely disseminated throughout various digital mediums,” Brito wrote. “Indeed, the video has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide.”
Brito added: “Consequently, you have caused Mrs. Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm.”
The First Lady’s attorney went on to note that Biden’s “source” for the debunked claims is “serial fabulist Michael Wolff, whose lies were published by The Daily Beast in the article titled ‘Melania Trump ‘very involved’ in Epstein Scandal: Author.’”
“Following receipt of our cease-and-desist demand letter just a week ago, The Daily Beast issued an apology to Mrs. Trump and retracted the false and defamatory statements contained in the article by deleting it in its entirety,” Brito wrote. “Despite this, you have unjustifiably relied upon Mr. Wolff’s false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump and maliciously elected to republish them.”
Brito went on to state that Biden has no viable defense to the overwhelming reputational and financial harm” he has caused to the First Lady.
The timing of this video is evident and underscores the actual malice behind the decision to publish it given the plain falsity of the statements,” the legal notice continued. “Given your vast history of trading on the names of others—including your surname—for your personal benefit, it is obvious that you published these false and defamatory statements about Mrs. Trump to draw attention to yourself.”
The letter concluded with a demand that Hunter “immediately issue a full and fair retraction of the video and any and all other false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading, and inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump in as conspicuous a manner as they were originally published.”
Brito also demanded a formal apology “for the false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading and inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump.”
“If you do not comply with the above by August 7, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. EST, Mrs. Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce her legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for over $1 Billion Dollars in damages,” the legal notice concluded. “You are on notice.”
