Hunter Biden Gives F-Bomb Response to Melania Trump's $1 Billion Lawsuit Threat

The first lady has threatened to sue Biden over comments linking her and Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.

August 14, 2025
Melania Trump in a white blouse and Hunter Biden in a black jacket, both looking serious, in a split image.
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Hunter Biden refuses to apologize to Melania Trump.

The first lady threatened to sue Biden for $1 billion in damages if he refused to retract and apologize for comments linking her to convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.

“Uh, fuck that," Biden said in response.

“That’s not going to happen,” he said on the Thursday (Aug. 14) episode of Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan. “First of all, what I said is what I have heard and seen reported and written primarily from Michael Wolff, but also dating back all the way to 2019.”

Melania Trump’s legal threat stemmed from Biden’s previous Channel 5 appearance in which he discussed the Epstein case and President Donald Trump’s history with the late, disgraced financier.

“They knew each other well. They spent an enormous amount of time together,” Biden said of the president and Epstein. “According to [Trump’s] biographer, Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania. That’s how Melania … the first lady and the president met. Yeah, according to Michael Wolff.”

Shortly after the interview was released, Melania Trump’s attorney, Alejandro Brito, issued a legal notice demanding that Biden “immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump.”

Brito warned that if Biden declined to retract his statements and issue an apology, he would be sued “over $1bn in damages,” per the BBC.

In July, The Daily Beast retracted an article that highlighted Wolff’s comments about Donald and Melania Trump’s alleged ties to Epstein. The outlet published an editor’s note explaining that it removed the story after receiving a letter from Melania Trump’s attorney.

“You know, she was very involved in the Epstein, in this Epstein relationship,” Wolff said on The Daily Beast podcast. “I mean, there is this model thing, but, you know, Epstein talks about, you know, and she’s introduced by a model agent, both of whom Trump and Epstein are involved with. She’s introduced to Trump that way. Epstein knows her well.”

Biden told Andrew Callaghan that he wasn’t fazed by the legal threats, as many publications, including The New York Times and Vanity Fair, have also reported on Epstein’s alleged ties to the Trumps.

“It’s been repeated by journalists and authors since then,” Biden continued. “But the primary source was interviews that Michael Wolff has been conducting … He has tapes of, I think, hours and hours and hours of interviews with Jeffrey Epstein, directly.”

Wolff has authored four biographies on Donald Trump.

“The fact of the matter is ...I don’t think these threats of a lawsuit add up to anything other than a designed distraction,” Biden said. “It’s not about who introduced whom to who. I don’t know how that in any way rises to the level of defamation, anyway.

"This is about hundreds if not over a thousand minors, children who were raped by Jeffrey Epstein," Biden continued. "I don’t believe in guilt by association alone, but the connections have become—they’re so glaringly obvious that I think they’re trying to use other things to distract."

The called the Trumps "bullies" and said he isn't scared by the threat of a lawsuit.

“If they want to sit down for a deposition and clarify the nature of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and the president," he said. "I’m more than happy to provide them the platform to be able to do it.”

Donald Trump and Epstein began their relationship in the 1980s and were spotted together at various social functions. The president spoke about their dynamic during a 2002 interview with New York Magazine, describing Epstein as a “terrific guy.”

“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years,” Trump said at the time. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

Trump later claimed he cut ties with Epstein in 2004. He readdressed the fallout while speaking to reporters in Scotland last month, claiming he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club because the financier "stole” young female staffers.

“For years, I wouldn’t talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn’t talk because he did something that was inappropriate,” the president said, as reported by NBC 10. “He hired help, and I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He stole people that work for me. I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He did it again… I threw him out, and that was it. I’m glad I did, if you want to know the truth.”