OAN Staff Avril Elfie
5:04 PM – Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump have asked the judge overseeing his records-tampering case to drop the charges because President-elect Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter.
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The filing was made public by Trump's lawyers on Tuesday.
“Yesterday, in granting a 10-year pardon to Hunter Biden for all crimes, both prosecuted and unindicted, President Biden said his son had been 'selectively and unfairly prosecuted' and 'not treated differently. '', the filing states. It says it was released on Tuesday.
“President Biden asserted that 'raw politics has infected this process, which has led to miscarriages of justice.'” These comments amount to an extraordinary rebuke of President Biden's own Department of Justice, the filing states. continued. “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has engaged in 'exactly the type of political theater' that President Biden has denounced.”
Bragg's office has charged Trump with falsifying business records related to hush money allegedly paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in the final stages of the 2016 presidential campaign. In May, a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 charges.
Nevertheless, Judge Juan Melchan has now postponed Trump's sentencing indefinitely, citing his election victory and the fact that he is protected by presidential immunity.
The district attorney's office said it is not opposed to a delay.
Trump's lawyers Todd Blanche and Emile Bove also cited presidential immunity as a reason for Marchand's dismissal of the charges, calling prosecutors politically motivated and legally questionable in their filings. .
“This lawsuit is based on a contrived, flawed and unprecedented legal theory related to the 2017 description of documents stored hundreds of miles from the White House, where President Trump ruled the country. ”, the filing states. I have never been brought in. ”
“The U.S. Attorney's Office's disruption of the presidential system violates the doctrine of presidential immunity because it threatens the functioning of the federal government,” the filing states.
The complaint goes on to say that prosecutors' “ridiculous suggestion that they could simply resume proceedings after President Trump leaves office, more than a decade after they began their investigation in 2018, is not an option.”
They also said the prosecutions “could have a lasting impact on our nation's balanced power structure and spark the kind of factionalism that President Biden denounced in his announcement of a sweeping pardon yesterday.” They are requesting that the charges be dropped on the grounds of “profit.” ”
“As President Biden said yesterday, 'enough is enough,'” he added.
On Sunday, Joe pardoned his son after he pleaded guilty to federal tax crimes and was convicted of federal firearms charges earlier this year.
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