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Donald Trump Reveals What He Told Melania After Hunter Biden’s Epstein Relationship Comments

President Donald Trump has shared his reaction to first lady Melania Trump’s $1 billion defamation threat against former President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

Speaking with Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade on Thursday, Trump said that he is supportive of his wife’s possible pursuit of legal action against his former rival’s second-oldest son.

Trump’s reaction came after Hunter Biden recently claimed in an interview with YouTuber and journalist Andrew Callaghan that the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein initially introduced the first couple.

Melania Trump’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, denied the claims in an Aug. 6 letter addressed to Hunter Biden and his attorney, Abbe Lowell. The letter was first reported Wednesday by Fox News Digital.

Brito called Biden’s claims about the first lady false, defamatory and “extremely salacious.” Melania Trump’s legal team has demanded that Biden retract his comments and apologize while vowing to sue if he does not.

Discussing the potential lawsuit, Donald Trump said he encouraged his wife to pursue legal action and also denied that Epstein, a former friend of his, introduced them.

“Well, I said go forward. I’ve done pretty well in these lawsuits lately,” the president told Kilmeade. “Jeffrey Epstein has nothing to do with Melania and introducing, but they do that to demean, they make up stories.”

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’d let her use my lawyers. She was very upset about it.”

In her memoir “Melania,” which was released last October, the first lady said that Donald Trump was on a date with another woman when he first met her in 1998 at the Kit Kat Klub club during a New York Fashion Week party. The pair later tied the knot in 2005.

Biden’s accusations came as the Trump administration has faced criticism in recent weeks for its handling of the Epstein files.

The backlash ramped up after the Department of Justice announced in a two-page memo last month that it would not be releasing any additional records in connection to Epstein and the sex trafficking case against him.

The DOJ and FBI also said that Epstein didn’t have a “client list” of powerful figures he could potentially blackmail and maintained that he died by suicide in his jail cell in 2019 as he awaited trial on federal charges.

Meanwhile, Biden responded to Melania Trump’s demand for a retraction in a separate interview Thursday on Callaghan’s Youtube channel, “Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan.”

After Callaghan suggested Biden could apologize for his comments, he fired back, “Fuck that. That’s not going to happen.”