(WASHINGTON) — An emerging rift between Melania Trump and Hunter Biden escalated Thursday when the son of former President Joe Biden issued an expletive-laden response to the first lady’s demand that he apologize for an allegation he made about her alleged prior ties to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Last month, during an interview with YouTube host Andrew Callaghan, Hunter Biden said it was Epstein, the wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide in jail in 2019, who initially introduced Melania Trump to her future husband, President Donald Trump — an assertion that Alejandro Brito, an attorney for Melania Trump, called untrue and “extremely salacious” in a letter to Hunter Biden last week.

Brito’s letter to Hunter Biden, a copy of which was r

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