Lawyers for the president’s son Hunter Biden sent Donald Trump a cease-and-desist letter on Thursday, alleging that the former president’s frequent hostile comments about Mr Biden are defamatory and likely to inspire violence.
On Thursday, Biden attorney Abbe Lowell wrote to Trump’s lawyers, saying their client’s public statements about his client are “defamatory and likely to incite Mr. Trump’s followers to take actions against Mr. Biden and which could lead to his or his family’s injury.”
Lowell listed examples in the letter of Trump’s rhetoric that he argued incited violence, including former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, being attacked by a man in their home last year.
“This is not a false alarm,” Lowell wrote.