“You know, I’ve done pretty well on these lawsuits lately… and Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania and introducing,” he told Fox News Radio host Brian Kilmeade.
“But they do that to demean, they make up stories. I mean I can tell you exactly how it was and it was another person actually… but it wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump and Melania, with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in 2000.Credit: Getty
“I told her go ahead and do it. I’d rather use my lawyers – very upset about it.”
While Trump didn’t name the “other person”, he and Melania have long said they were introduced by Paolo Zampolli, a modelling agent, at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998.
The London Telegraph reported that Biden was publicly defiant after the legal threat which it said amounted to a US$1 billion lawsuit.
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Asked in a podcast interview if he would retract his words, he said: “F— that. That’s not going to happen.
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer who has represented Biden in his criminal cases and to whom Brito’s letter is addressed, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Melania Trump’s letter to Biden was first reported by Fox News.
The first lady’s legal threats echo a favoured strategy of her husband, who has aggressively used litigation to go after critics.
The US president has faced mounting pressure over his administration’s handling of the Epstein scandal and his links to the convicted paedophile, who died while in custody in 2019.
He has brought a $US10 billion ($15 billion) suit against The Wall Street Journal after it published a story reporting that he had signed a “bawdy” letter to Epstein for his 50th birthday, which included a drawing of a naked woman with his signature attached.
He named Murdoch, News Corp chief executive Robert Thomson and the two reporters responsible for the article as defendants. The company intends to defend the reporting.
AP
