Attorneys forCiting President Joe Biden’s words when he declared he had pardoned his son, Donald Trump urged the judge who oversaw his conviction for falsifying company records to drop the charge against the president-elect.
“Yesterday, in issuing a10-year pardon to Hunter Bidenthat covers any and all crimes whether charged or uncharged, President Biden asserted that his son was ‘selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,’ and ‘treated differently,'” the document, which was released on Tuesday, said.
According to President Biden, this process has been tainted by raw politics, which has resulted in a miscarriage of justice. The petition went on to say that these remarks amounted to an unusual condemnation of President Biden’s own DOJ and that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has participated in the exact kind of political play that Biden has denounced.
In the final days of the 2016 presidential election, Trump was charged by Bragg’s office with falsifying company records over to a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. In May, a jury convicted Trump on all 34 counts. Given Trump’s election victory and claims that he is immune from prosecution, Judge Juan Merchan has indefinitely postponed Trump’s sentencing.
According to the DA’s office, the postponement was not opposed.
Trump lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove portrayed the prosecution as politically motivated and legally problematic in their petition, arguing that Merchan dismissed the charge due to presidential immunity provisions.
“This case is based on a contrived, defective, and unprecedented legal theory relating to 2017 entries in documents that were maintained hundreds of miles away from the White House where President Trump was running the country,” the filing states. It further states that “this case should never have been brought.”
The attorney general’s “disruptions to the institution of the Presidency violate the Presidential immunity doctrine because they threaten the functioning of the federal government,” according to the petition.
The attorneys also criticized the DA’s office for suggesting that the lawsuit could be postponed until Trump has served out his term. The prosecutor’s “ridiculous suggestion that they could simply resume proceedings after President Trump leaves Office, more than a decade after they commenced their investigation in 2018, is not an option,” the filing stated.
The brief argues that Trump’s “extraordinary service” to the nation is another reason the case ought to be dismissed. “Trump s civic and financial contributions to this City and the Nation are too numerous to count,” it reads.
Additionally, they urged the judge to dismiss the case in the “interests of justice,” arguing that the prosecution poses a long-term threat to our nation’s balanced power structure and the kind of factional conflict that President Biden denounced in his announcement of yesterday’s universal pardon.
“‘Enough is enough,’ as President Biden stated yesterday,” it continued.
Blanche and Bove’s filing also makes several jabs at the Justice Department for its Trump prosecutions that were abandoned following his reelection.
“This is the same DOJ that coordinated and oversaw the politically-motivated, election-interference witch hunts targeting President Trump,” claimed the statement.
Blanche and Bove’s comments in the file are noteworthy since Trump has stated that he plans to nominate both for key positions in the Justice Department, despite the fact that he has frequently grumbled about the department in the past.
If the judge disagrees and intends to set a sentencing date, the brief suggests that he give Trump “a two-week stay to provide a reasonable opportunity to pursue federal injunctive relief.” It also calls on the judge to dismiss the case.
The deadline for the DA’s office to reply is December 9.
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