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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[–] 41 points 1 year ago*

Melania pictured here asking Epstein for directions to get away from Epstein:

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    She was sold to Trump.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    I didn't know that Hunter Biden sat for an interview. I didn't care what Hunter Biden is up to these days. I guess I still don't. I'm sure he says a lot of things. By surfacing this one comment, though, now I'm aware that Epstein introduced her to her husband. Fascinating.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Must be some truth to the accusation.

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    Its not that we want to believe everything about Trump, but that we know hes a deplorable human and that most of this is probably true. You have to start opening your eyes to the absolute corruption that is taking over and that has completely taken over the Republican party. Which by the way, is supposed to be the party of law and order, trad family values, and small government, of which they are holding none of those values up on a pedestal anymore. I mean Vance is literally in support of deporting his wife and children (as they are of Indian descent). You cant tell me there arent better options within the party that would make fine presidents, so long as they kept the nationalism down to a minimum.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    I don't care, do you?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Since when is Andrew Callaghan British? Edit: Probably was fixed in the source, there it states "US journalist" now

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Overwhelming financial harm? Ha. Good one.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    There is some dirt on melenia that trump and them can't cover up. That is my take on this.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Channel 5 is British? What the helly?

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    [–] 111 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Streisand Effect:

    Asked if he wished to apologize, Biden said: “Uh, fuck that, not going to happen.”>

    “What I said is what I have heard and seen reported and written primarily from Michael Wolff, but also dating back to 2019.” He cited a number of publications, including the New York Times and Vanity Fair, as sources of his information.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    My personal take is that she's only staying married to him for spite.

    If she divorced he'd be able to openly marry one of his bimbos.

    She's telling people that Donnie and Epstein were buddies.

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  • [–] 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Idk I think she's probably just an awful person and has absolutely no morals or ethical standards to make her dislike Trump. Remember the "I dont care do u?" jacket she wore to the child detention camp? That's not something a person does if they aren't the kind of person that gets raped to death every day in a Sisyphus torture hell.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    She can still be a horrible person and still dislike Donald.

    She stays away from him a lot, when he tried to hold her hand she actively swatted it away.

    It may simply be that she sees him as ugly, old, and gross, even if she has no particular objections to him morally or ethically. He was a viable way to a luxurious life, but particularly this first lady stuff imposes on her and is annoying, even as she mostly shrugs it off.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    She won't get the big pay-out unless they're still married when he dies. Divorce settlements are always smaller than an inheritance.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    When are the Epstein files getting released?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you really think they're going to be released?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, they've probably been destroyed. Probably a lot in 2019.

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    I'm honestly not sure what "files" people expect to exist and what they might contain.

    Genuinely asking: was he a blackmailer? Did he keep evidence on all of his clients?

    More cynically: do we really expect that law enforcement has that evidence and that the trump administration might release it?

    There's just no chance in hell anything actionable will be released by the Trump administration.

    Honestly, they could release a list, handwritten in sharpie, of Democrats and call that the epstein files and that would be that.

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    [–] 69 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    She wore this after visiting children in cages. She’s no friend of mine.

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    [–] 61 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe she shouldn’t have partied with human traffickers. No sympathy for these kiddy diddlers and rapists.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    Pretty sure she "hung out with traffickers" because she was actively being trafficked...

    A marriage to a rich older businessman is basically the retirement plan for high end escorts.

    And they guy who "discovered her", Paolo Zampolli, is essentially another Epstein. They even co-owned a modelling agency together.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    Alternate title: "Matriarch of family that used man as conspiratorial lynch pin in their attacks on his father demands apology and retraction of statements shared by and corroborated by many other sources."

    What a bunch of lunatics.

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    Hunter should counter sue for all the shit they said about him.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Hunter is a deeply troubled man but he isn't an idiot. He understands that the discovery phase isn't something he wants.

    Contrast that with republican dumbfucks who will make empty threats before their lawyers explain why that is a bad idea and why they will be dropping them as clients (and setting a few server rooms on fire) before filing.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Linking? Didn't Jeffrey Epstein had sex with her first before Trump got his sloppy seconds?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Release the Epstein files!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    It's common knowledge that she, Trump, and Epstein socialized. Epstein introducing the two would only be interesting if that "introduction" involved the exchange of money.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Yeah - lets take this to court and get some facts on the table

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Chomo mad at being called a chomo.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why is she butthurt over this?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Fuck Melania, but also fuck Hunter. They both seriously suck. I have very little sympathy for either of them and the way they act in public.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    We should just let em duke it out in a cage match.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There's not much human face left for Hunter to punch.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Demanding to supress the truth? How Trump!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I’m glad him and Callahan don’t seem to be backing down from her empty threats.

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    [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    Streisand effect. Now everyone will know Epstein pimped her out to Trump.

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  • Wow she chimed in for once? Must be something there, so keep going.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    First I heard of this...

    Barbara S. entered the chat...

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Andrew of All Gas no Brakes/Channel 5 fame is a British journalist? Love it.

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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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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    The quiet lady suddenly got very loud. Must have finally hit the nerve. Bullseye.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've always heard that the British accent from the 1700s was like a "modern" southern accent in America. Here's an inconclusive BBC article:

    https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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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  • Andrew’s a Brit now? Someone should tell him.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

    And I sea they removed the beach heh

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Andrew isn't British. WTF?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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

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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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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago

    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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