00:00So now we're here maybe to give you the platform to apologize to the First Lady
00:05for your statements that you made about her possible connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:11Uh, f*** that. That's not going to happen.
00:15Hunter Biden crassly brushed off First Lady Melania Trump's threat to sue him for $1 billion
00:20if he doesn't retract what she is calling false and defamatory comments,
00:25linking her to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
00:28The former First Son made the comment with a smirk on his face
00:31during an interview on the YouTube show Channel 5 with Andrew Callahan on Thursday.
00:37Hunter Biden had appeared in an interview on the same show just one week prior,
00:41on August 5th, where he first made the controversial claim.
00:45I mean, Epstein introduced Melania to Trump.
00:49The connections are, like, so wide and deep.
00:52The next day, the First Lady's team revealed that it put the scandal-scarred former First Son
00:57on notice for his statements, as seen in a legal notice obtained by Fox News Digital.
01:03Failure to comply will leave Mrs. Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights
01:08and remedies available to her to recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm
01:14that you have caused her to suffer, the First Lady's attorney, Alejandro Brito, wrote.
01:19Hunter Biden went on to defend his past comments in the newly released interview,
01:23saying the information came from claims made by Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolfe,
01:28which he cited later in the initial interview.
01:30According to his biographer, it is that Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania.
01:34That's how Melania and the First Lady and the President met.
01:37Really? Epstein made the intro?
01:39Yeah, according to Michael Wolfe.
01:41However, Melania's team seemingly foresaw such a defense,
01:45writing in the legal notice that he unjustifiably relied on Mr. Wolfe's false, defamatory, disparaging,
01:52and inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump, and maliciously elected to republish them.
01:58Her team has also issued similar threats to other key figures.
02:01Last month, for example, the Daily Beast retracted an article that peddled similar claims
02:06after getting threatened by the First Lady's team.
02:09Brito notified Hunter Biden that he would have until August 7th at 5 p.m. Eastern
02:14to immediately issue an apology for the false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading,
02:21and inflammatory statements about Mrs. Trump.
02:23Or they would file suit against him for $1 billion in damages.
02:28Despite his bravado, Biden could find himself in a lot of financial trouble if he were sued.
02:33The former first son claimed in court documents earlier this year
02:36that he is saddled with significant debt in the millions of dollars range,
02:41amid struggling art sales and expensive legal bills.
02:45According to a source who spoke to Fox News Digital,
02:48Hunter Biden did not comply with the deadline.
