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Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, has reacted strongly to a legal threat from First Lady Melania Trump, while publishing a video with offensive words on YouTube in response to her request for an apology and withdrawal of the accusation.
Hunter claims that Melania Trump was introduced to President Donald Trump by convicted sex offender and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, citing a Daily Beast report sourced by author Michael Wolff.
The Daily Beast report was retracted with an apology, but Hunter repeated the claim in an interview with the Channel 5 podcast with Andrew Callaghan.
"They knew each other well, they spent a long time together," the former president's son said of Donald Trump and Epstein. "According to his biographer, Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania, that's how Melania... the first lady and the president met," Hunter continued.
Mrs. Trump's lawyer threatened to sue Hunter Biden and seek $1 billion if they "do not immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements made regarding Mrs. Trump."
But Hunter Biden wasn't interested in an apology, sharing his public reaction on Callaghans' show.
"Hell, that's not going to happen," Biden replied, after Callaghan showed him a copy of the letter.
The logo on Hunter Biden's hat featured a logo with three arrows inside a circle. The symbol is similar to that of the Iron Front resistance to the Nazi party in World War II-era Germany. Anti-Trump groups like Antifa have appropriated the symbol as their own.
Hunter Biden defended his comments, citing reports from Wolff's book and a 2019 New York Times article that reported that Epstein was "claiming to people that he was the person who introduced Mr. Trump to his third wife, Melania Trump."
In a letter to Biden and his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, the first lady's lawyer, Alejandro Brito, called Biden's comments "false, defamatory and shameful."
“Given your extensive history of trading in the names of others, including your own last name, for personal gain, it is clear that you published these false and defamatory statements about Mrs. Trump to attract attention,” Brito wrote in a letter, first obtained by Fox News Digital.
The letter was dated August 6 and gave the new Biden until August 7 to apologize.
Biden defied the threat of a lawsuit and vowed to take the Trumps to court, even though he estimated the lawsuit would probably cost 'millions' of dollars.
"If they want to go through this process, then they know it's going to cost them a huge amount of money to do that," Biden said, adding "we have to find a way to pay for it."
Channel 5's specific episode with Andrew Callaghan on YouTube has attracted a viewership of 1.3 million followers.
"These false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory statements are extremely inappropriate and have been widely disseminated across various digital media," the first lady's lawyer said.
"Indeed, the video has since been reposted by various media outlets, journalists and political commentators with millions of followers on social media who have spread the false and defamatory statements in it to tens of millions of people around the world.
As a result, you have caused Mrs. Trump great financial and reputational damage,” Brito added.
He should also “immediately apologize for the false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading and inflammatory statements regarding Mrs. Trump,” Brito said.
Today it has been 7 days since Brito's deadline.
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