In their latest motion to dismiss Donald Trump‘s hush money conviction, his attorneys are citing President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter.
“President Biden argued that ‘raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice,’” Trump’s legal team wrote in a filing today. “These comments amounted to an extraordinary condemnation of Biden’s own DOJ. This is the same DOJ that coordinated and oversaw the politically motivated election interference witch hunts targeting President Trump by disgraced Special Counsel Jack Smith, the other biased prosecutors in Smith’s special counsel’s office, and others. This is the same DOJ that sent Matthew Colangelo to DA Bragg to help unfairly target President Trump in this empty and lawless case.”
Read the Trump motion to dismiss.
Trump was convicted earlier year of 34 New York state felony counts related to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Judge Juan Merchan has postponed Trump’s sentencing hearing indefinitely.
Last week, Smith, the special counsel who brought federal charges against Trump over the handling of classified documents and his attempts to remain in power after the 2020 election, asked for a dismissal of the cases given the former president’s pending return to the White House.
More to come.
