() –– President-elect Donald Trump’s defense lawyers are using President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter to argue that Trump’s conviction in his Manhattan hush money case should be thrown out.
“Yesterday, in granting Hunter Biden a 10-year pardon covering any and all crimes, whether charged or not, President Biden asserted that his son was ‘selectively and unfairly prosecuted’ and ‘treated differently’”, Trump’s lawyers wrote in a motion filed Monday..
Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, whom he has tapped to fill top Justice Department positions in his new administration, argued that these comments amount to a condemnation of Biden’s own Justice Department and that the district attorney of New York, Alvin Bragg, participated in the same kind of “political theater.”
Bragg’s office successfully prosecuted Trump earlier this year for falsifying business records related to hush payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Judge Juan Merchan indefinitely stayed Trump’s sentencing in the case after Trump won re-election. Trump’s lawyers also want the conviction to be thrown out, but the prosecutor’s office says it will oppose any effort to dismiss the case.
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