An legal professional for Hunter Biden despatched a cease-and-desist letter to former President Donald Trump demanding that he cease making “defamatory” statements, saying they may spur violence in opposition to the Biden household.

“I am sending you this letter to make a demand that your client, former President Donald Trump, cease and desist from making public statements about my client which are both 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,” stated Hunter Biden legal professional Abbe Lowell within the Thursday letter.

The letter stated Mr. Trump has invoked Hunter Biden’s title on a “near daily basis” in the previous couple of months, citing a half-dozen examples of Mr. Trump’s posts on Truth Social and saying the previous president has “doubled down on his dangerous rhetoric” as he battles his personal authorized issues.

“This is not a false alarm,” Mr. Lowell wrote within the letter to 4 Trump attorneys first reported by ABC News.

He referenced the assault final yr on Paul Pelosi, husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at their San Francisco residence, and the arrest final month of a person discovered with weapons in his van close to former President Barack Obama’s residence within the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

“We are just one such social media message away from another incident, and you should make clear to Mr. Trump — if you have not done so already — that Mr. Trump’s words have caused harm in the past and threaten to do so again if he does not stop,” Mr. Lowell stated.

Abbe Lowell despatched stop & desist letter to the attorneys of @realDonaldTrump on behalf of Hunter Biden

“This is not a false alarm. We are just one such social media message away from another incident, and you should make clear to Mr. Trump — if you have not done so already…” pic.twitter.com/EiD0MVKmLW

— Jane (@PlaintanJane) July 14, 2023

Hunter Biden, 53, is a personal citizen, however his plea deal final month on tax expenses; remedy of his out-of-wedlock daughter; frequent White House appearances, and enterprise dealings with China and Ukraine have made him a 2024 marketing campaign challenge as his father seeks reelection.

Mr. Biden is the odds-on favourite to win the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, whereas Mr. Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nod.

On July 10, Mr. Trump stated on his Truth Social platform that the bag of cocaine found on the White House “was for use by Hunter, & probably Crooked Joe, in order to give this total disaster of a President a little life and energy.”

The Secret Service closed its investigation Thursday with out submitting expenses, saying there was no surveillance video and “insufficient DNA” to single out any suspect.

“You know, if Mr. Trump does not, that Mr. Biden has neither committed nor been accused of the charges that your client is claiming … and that the Biden family was not at the White House (let alone in the vestibule) in the period when the cocaine was found,” Mr. Lowell stated.

Mr. Trump has not commented publicly on the letter.

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