Hunter Biden has suggested he would "love" to get to a deposition from the Trumps over the Epstein claims as experts say Melania has very small chances of winning her defamation lawsuit for 1 billion dollars, opening the door to a counter suit.
He may also ask Prince Andrew and King Charles, Melania s pen pal for depositions.
“I also think they’re bullies, and they think that a billion dollars is going to scare me,” he said. “If they want to sit down for a deposition and clarify the nature of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein — if the president, the first lady want to do that, and all of the known associates around them at the time of whatever time that they met, I’m more than happy to provide them the platform to be able to do it.”
Hunter Biden is protected by first amendment and defamation laws, which set a high bar for Melania.
She would have to prove Michael Wolff made an error and was guilty of malice and every one who repeated his claim, including Hunter.
https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trump-lawsuit-threat-hunter-biden-legal-analysts-2113708
As First Lady, she does not have the right to silence every one else on the subject of how she met Trump automatically.
Melania may be panicking as her links to Epstein, Maxwell are scrutinized. Kimg Charles is the pen pal of Melania raising concerns she may be a honeypot and handler of Trump on behalf of the Crown, MI6 as well as Mossad.
But her lawsuit was the wrong legal strategy and could end up exposing far more than she and Trump s blackmailers want as well as her malice in trying to shut down free speech in the USA.
She should drop the lawsuit and offer Hunter a big sum to avoid a PR and legal disaster she should never have started.
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"As a public figure, the first lady would have to prove malice, that the younger Biden knew the statement was false or that he acted with reckless disregard for the truth. But if Epstein did not introduce the president and first lady, that would not be difficult to prove," Rahmani said.
If the first lady files the lawsuit, Biden would likely raise First Amendment arguments, including that political speech receives strong free speech protections.
Practically speaking, however, Rahmani said he does not believe Melania Trump will file. If she does, she and her lawyers may look for a quick settlement.
"The president has been very litigious when it comes to these types of cases, but truth is an absolute defense to defamation. A civil complaint puts how Donald and Melania met and their relationship with Epstein, if any, at issue," Rahmani said. "That means the president and first lady would have to sit for a deposition and answer questions about Epstein. Hunter may dig in his heels and push the case to trial or the brink, like he did with his criminal cases."
A trial about the Trumps and Epstein would be a "circus," and no one wants to be associated with Epstein, Rahmani said.
However, former federal prosecutor Shanlon Wu said he believes Melania Trump does not have a strong case against Hunter Biden.
"It's pretty tough for a public figure like a first lady to be able to claim defamation," Wu said.
The case could also be difficult to prove because the statements originate from Wolff's book, he said. She would not only have to prove that the claim is false, but that Hunter Biden knew or should have known it was false.
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Hunter Biden said on Channel Five: "What I said was what I have heard and seen reported and written, primarily from Michael Wolff, but also dating back all the way to 2019 when The New York Times, I think, Annie Carney and Maggie Haberman reported that sources said that Jeffrey Epstein claimed to be the person to introduce Donald Trump to Melania at that time.
"And then I think excerpted in a book that was published in Vanity Fair, and I think it's been repeated by journalists and authors since then. But the primary source was the interviews that Michael Wolff has been conducting, in which he has, actually, tapes of I think hours and hours of interviews with Jeffrey Epstein. So, you know, fact of the matter is that, you know, I don't think that these threats of a lawsuit add up to anything other than a design destruction because it's not about who introduced whom to who. I don't know how that in any way rises to the level of defamation to begin with."
"It would be different if he was the only person starting this rumor or something, but given that there's been other people—it may be factually inaccurate, but there are other sources publicly available—it becomes more of a defamation suit based on the idea you're not allowed to reference other publicly reported stories," Wu said.
He added that a defamation trial would not "be very helpful at all" to the scrutiny the Trump administration has faced over Epstein.
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