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Wiz Imp

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8. It's completely irrelevant if what Hunter Biden said was true or not.
Sat Aug 16, 2025, 06:52 PM
Yesterday

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.

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