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Miles Archer

(19,983 posts)
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 12:56 PM Yesterday

The First Nude ain't gonna sue Hunter for ONE BEELION DOLLARS. She'd never go through the "discovery process" in court.

My educated guess is that Trump told her to "SCARE HIM" the same way he "scares" anyone who pisses him off.

Problem is, she's not going to sit in court and get grilled about the "good ol' days" with Epstein and Maxwell.

No "discovery process," no defamation suit. And she can't just send in a fucking video. She'd have to be questioned by Biden's attorneys.

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The First Nude ain't gonna sue Hunter for ONE BEELION DOLLARS. She'd never go through the "discovery process" in court. (Original Post) Miles Archer Yesterday OP
They are only successful when they have leverage newdeal2 Yesterday #1
Their PERCEIVED "leverage" is Maxwell, who got popped on 2 perjury counts during her 2016 deposition Miles Archer Yesterday #2
y'all need to leave Melanoma alone.... democratsruletheday Yesterday #3
All he has to do to beat the "salacious" comment is show her cheesy porn shots Ritabert Yesterday #4
Just another distraction,,, IrishAfricanAmerican 22 hrs ago #5
Maybe witnesses for alternative meeting stories are being paid off struggle4progress 20 hrs ago #6
It's completely irrelevant if what Hunter Biden said was true or not. Wiz Imp 19 hrs ago #8
I agree. It's still interesting to see who exactly gets appointments from Sleazy Don struggle4progress 19 hrs ago #9
Pretty sure as first lady, the bar for anything is impossible to meet. Johonny 20 hrs ago #7

newdeal2

(3,637 posts)
1. They are only successful when they have leverage
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:02 PM
Yesterday

They have power over Paramount (merger approval), newspapers (access), universities (funding), tech and business (regulations and tariffs).

But they shouldn't mess with a person who has nothing to lose.

Miles Archer

(19,983 posts)
2. Their PERCEIVED "leverage" is Maxwell, who got popped on 2 perjury counts during her 2016 deposition
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:17 PM
Yesterday

I'm just guessing Biden knows what I know, which is the fact that she's not going to go into court and be quizzed down about her "modeling" (wink wink) days.

democratsruletheday

(1,444 posts)
3. y'all need to leave Melanoma alone....
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:33 PM
Yesterday

she's just trying (and failing) to convince any of us with 1/2 a brain that she wasn't bought and paid for

Ritabert

(1,525 posts)
4. All he has to do to beat the "salacious" comment is show her cheesy porn shots
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 02:05 PM
Yesterday

Then show all the photos of her with Epstein and Maxwell.

Wiz Imp

(6,584 posts)
8. It's completely irrelevant if what Hunter Biden said was true or not.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 06:52 PM
19 hrs ago

He didn't make it up. When he said it, he said exactly where he was getting it (from a public interview with Michael Wolff) and the same fact about their meeting has been repeated in literally hundreds of news articles from major news sources over the years. It is quite literally insane for anyone to claim what Hunter Biden said was defamatory.

Defamation: the act of harming another person's reputation by making false statements. It encompasses both libel (written defamation) and slander (spoken defamation). To be considered defamation, the statements must be false,
published to a third party, and cause harm to the individual's reputation.

3 things must be true

1) the statements must be false - actually, the statements need to be shown that they were known to be false when made. Public figures must prove "actual malice," meaning the statement was made with knowledge of its falsity or with reckless disregard for the truth. Hunter Biden had every reason to believe the statement was true (and of course it has yet to be proven that it isn't true). There was no malice or reckless disregard for the truth. He attributed the statement to respected journalist/author Michael Wolff who has had personally interviewed both Jeffrey Epstein & Donald Trump many times and has hundreds of hours of recordings of his Epstein interviews. Wolff almost certainly has a recording of Epstein making that statement.
2) published to a third party
3) cause harm to the individual's reputation - I'd love to see Melania's attempt to show that a statement by Hunter Biden harmed her reputation. Particularly since he was repeating a statement made by author Michael Wolff (and attributing it to him) and repeated by hundreds of journalists over the years - and nobody was ever sued for defamation for making that statement. So why does she think when Hunter Biden said it, it was defamation but when everybody else said it, it was not?

It's obviously a joke of a so-called lawsuit. Maybe she thought she could scare him into submission (she's clearly stupid enough to think that) but there was no chance of that ever happening. I have no idea what else she would be trying to accomplish with this - this would be immediately thrown out of court in a second.

Johonny

(24,326 posts)
7. Pretty sure as first lady, the bar for anything is impossible to meet.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 06:12 PM
20 hrs ago

I doubt it hits discovery and simply gets tossed even if she bothered to file it.

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