Melania Trump might be suing Hunter Biden …
… for defamation. Here’s the story:
Hunter Biden, in an interview with British journalist Andrew Callaghan, stated, “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep.” He doubled down with “Jeffrey Epstein introduced Melania, and that’s how Melania and the first lady and the president met,” repeating these false remarks despite their glaring lack of credibility. These inflammatory claims hinge on assertions made by Michael Wolff, an author with a notorious reputation for fabricating stories.
Wolff gained some notoriety back in 2018 with a book on Trump; I wrote about him previously in this post as well as this one.
Hunter Biden is quite a piece of work. It occurs to me that one of his most salient characteristics is his utter lack of shame. The laptop revelations seem to have scarcely made a dent in his willingness to give public interviews and in his arrogance, and his previous protection from legal consequences have emboldened an already very very bold and very corrupt man.
As far as stopping the accusations against Trump and Melania go and apologizing, Hunter’s answer is succinct and characteristically profane:
Hunter responds: “fuck that. That’s not going to happen”https://t.co/0AMuDBqrYA https://t.co/2EubenB0HQ pic.twitter.com/2F986cAv3W
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) August 14, 2025
Note especially that duping chuckle at the end, and the pseudo-charming smile.
If it does come to a lawsuit, can Melania win? She’s a public figure – and so is Hunter Biden. As such, she has a high standard of proof over which to hurdle, because of Sullivan. She would have to prove Hunter’s actual malice, or knowledge that his assertion was a lie, or reckless disregard for the truth. Hunter is overwhelmingly malicious, mendacious, and reckless. But proving those things were operating in this case might be difficult.
Then again, Trump has long held that he wants to test Sullivan. So this case would test it, I suppose.
Hunter Biden seems like a character in some poorly written dimestore novel. The guy’s practically a living charecture of an entitled princeling with narcissistic personality disorder. The scandal ridden, publically disgraced son of a disgraced president. A story filled with drugs, prostitutes, hedonistic hotel room videos, a sinecure at a Ukrainian enegery company, Russian spies, reckless spending, an unawknowldedged child out of wedlock with a stripper. He’s a cliche. If he weren’t real I would doubt such a person could really exist.
wolf is a terrible person, worst than hunter in some respects, he was originally some minor tech entrepreneur in the late 90s, then he surface in New York Magazine, where he specialized in W derangement, then he descended into the depths like a catfish,
yes bannon gave him initial entree, he was even worse in his second book, despite the lawsuits against him, the publishers still engage him, I guess the standards as we have found in other ventures, you can say anything but the truth, note all the books about the Russian hoax still circulating, and those authors given credibility about the next breaking news,
Chris buckley before he lost his mind, was very knowing about Biden, he painted him as a buffoon, so willing to seize the trappings of office, he would involve himself in a reality type soap opera, which was sort of what the last four years were like, for us,
There seems to be no lack of people like Hunter.
A further note from the PJ post Neo quoted: “Wolff’s allegations appeared in a Daily Beast article, which was swiftly retracted and apologized for after Melania’s legal team challenged its veracity.”
Ordinarily, I would say that the DB retraction and apology would be prima facie evidence against Hunter, but then I recall Sarah Palin’s lawsuit against the NYT for publishing an editorial essentially accusing her of being responsible for the shooting that targeted former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), the infamous “crosshairs” canard.
https://thenewneo.com/2022/02/10/sarah-palins-defamation-lawsuit-against-the-times/#comment-2606825
Eventually, the original judgment against Palin was tossed because of the judge’s egregious bias and another trial ordered.
[Judges’s errors of this type are very familiar to us, having watched the antics directed against President Trump]
https://jonathanturley.org/2024/08/29/222891/
That didn’t go as well as Turley had hoped.
https://freespeechproject.georgetown.edu/tracker-entries/sarah-palin-loses-in-retrial-of-her-federal-defamation-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times/
Unfortunately (at least in this and other defamation cases pitting conservatives against progressives), the “honesty” of the mistake is in the eyes of the jury, and appears to depend almost completely on their ideology, not the evidence, especially when the jury shares the same background context as the reporters.
In a broad sense, yeah, there’s no shortage of morally bankrupt narcisists in the world who’ve done various dispicaple and ridiculous things. And many of them are in positions of power or are the sons or daughters of wealthy, powerful people. I think what makes him so incredible is his continued presence, almost comical public shamelessness, desperate attempts to stay relevent, and how he’s avoided much culpability for his various crimes and stupidities. No doubt a lot of Democrats wish he would just go away. They’d like to pretend he doesn’t exist, like an engorged zit.
But chuck harder the very effective trial atty has been able to extract sizable setlements from the daily telegraph and the mail the reporter for one of these julia ioffe was subsequently hired at another politico type outfit puck and another found suitable employment you would think reputational risk it doesnt work that way
The bubble that she resides in is impermeable largely about hamas as well as orange man
The comments on Neo’s next post in re the Democrats are congruent with my assertions about the Palin juries, since the suit was filed and tried in New York.
@ Nonapod > “I think a lot of people on the Left are not necessarily as completely unaware of certain realities as we on the right may believe they are. It’s just that they choose to ignore those aspects of reality that they don’t like very much.”
I have commented that in today’s environment you don’t always need a conviction, or even a trial, to inflict punishment. If you can force someone to lawyer up, and can drag it out, you can inflict damage–unless the individual is filthy rich. (That’s not meant to suggest that rich people are filthy.) I believe that the Obama and Biden DOJs used that strategy routinely.
The same strategy can be employed in litigation, of course. The prevalence of pretrial settlements attest to the effectiveness. Melania Trump can drive this bus a long way.
Sic ’em.
Hunter Biden is such a shameless, degenerate, amoral sleaze-bag, I am surprised that he doesn’t leave a trail of ooze behind him wherever he slithers.
I am also surprised that any decent woman, or even an indecent one with an ounce of self-respect even remains within twenty feet of him
The merit of any suit notwithstanding, it will be expensive for Hunter to defend against. Daddy is no longer in the White House and his step-mother (any love lost anyhow?) no longer has access to the auto-pen. His usefulness as an artist to launder bribes is kaput. With nothing to offer, will some leftist sugar daddy step up to defend him, for old time’s sake? Perhaps a little blackmail will serve as an incentive. He certainly has the lack of integrity for it. I also wonder if such a suit can be filed in Florida.
I never heard of this guy but they were a dime a dozen
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/fbi-kash-patel-lawsuit-stewartson.html?__source=sharebar|twitter&par=sharebar
Probably take a lot of money to defend this. Hunter acts as if he’s not worried about it.
Has he got any money to lose?
It was reported in the news said the prominent on-air personality.
An anonymous source claimed that they had heard from high level officials that things were chaotic as the President was mulling a pathway forward.
A scion of a well-respected, long powerful family made wide ranging accusations according to an interview recently covered during a separate undercover, anonymous, well-placed source.
A free press is both a blessing and a curse.
She may not win in court but the suite it self (legal fees) is the punishment. For Melanie the cost of a lawyer is chump change. For Hunter these days I assume there be some pain.
She may be able to afford the lawyers’ fees, but does she REALLY want to go into the discovery phase? It would send the Epstein mess back into the headlines, and keep it there for months.