Legal analysts weighed in on whether first lady Melania Trump 's billion-dollar defamation lawsuit threat against Hunter Biden has merit.

Why It Matters

Trump threatened to file a lawsuit against Hunter Biden , the son of former President Joe Biden , accusing him of making "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements" during an interview in which he claimed Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to her husband, President Donald Trump .

If she follows through with that threat, the case could test the limits of defamation law involving high-profile individuals such as the first family.

The Trump administration has been under scrutiny over its handling of a trove of documents and files related to Epstein, the disgraced financier who died by suicide in a New York federa

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