Trump Defends Melania Suing Media Over Epstein Accusation: ‘I Let Her Use My Lawyers!’
President Donald Trump encouraged his wife, Melania Trump, to sue media outlets reporting that between the First Lady and the late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
Lawyers representing Melania Trump have allegedly threatened $1 billion defamation lawsuits against The Daily Beast, James Carville, and Hunter Biden, each of whom suggested that Trump met his future wife via an Epstein connection.
On Thursday morning, Trump phoned in for a Fox News Radio interview with Brian Kilmeade, who brought the topic up.
“Just real quick on that Melania, the first lady, Melania Trump is suing Hunter Biden for a billion dollars because he said that Jeffrey Epstein introduced you to each other and she’s suing Hunter for a billion dollars,” Kilmeade noted. “Is that the right thing to do?”
“Well, I said go forward, you know, I’ve done pretty well on these lawsuits lately, and I said, go forward with it,” Trump replied.
“Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania and introducing,” he clarified before attacking the press. “But they do that to demean, they make up stories.”
“I mean, I can tell you exactly how it wasn’t-, it was another person, actually,” he added. “I did meet through another person. But it wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein.”
“Yeah, I told her, let’s go ahead and do it. I let her use my lawyers, Trump concluded. “She was very upset about it.”
Both Carville and The Daily Beast took down the content in which they alleged that the Trumps met each other through Epstein.
The tactic of threatening these massive lawsuits has succeeded in some ways, but have also kept the news narrative alive, also known as the Streisand Effect. I described the phenomenon in a just-published column.
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