The defense of President-elect Donald Trump requested this Tuesday that dismiss your criminal case in New Yorkthe only one in which he is found guilty but whose sentence was postponed sine die, and they alluded to the President Joe Biden’s controversial pardon to his son Hunter.
In a lengthy motion to Judge Juan Merchan, attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove argue that Trump was subjected to the same “political theater” criticized by Biden by pardoning his son and that is why he should reject both the prosecution’s accusation and the guilty verdict handed down by the trial jury.
Biden said his son was “judged selectively and unfairly”which represents, according to the lawyers, “an extraordinary condemnation of the Ministry of Justice itself” under his command, which “coordinated”, they say, the “Witch hunt” against Trumpas he calls the legal proceedings against him.
According to the judicial platform, the prosecution has until December 9 to respond to the new complaint. So far he has opposed dismissing the case, but he relented a few weeks ago and left the door open to delaying the sentence until 2029, when his second term will end.
The defense once again insisted that the Supreme Court’s decision grants immunity to US presidentsor that his rights as President-elect are considered for these purposes to be similar to those of a sitting President.
The lawyers, whom Trump appointed to senior positions within his Justice Department, reiterated that his status as “president-elect” poses a “legal obstacle to further criminal prosecutions based on the doctrine of presidential immunity“, among others.
In November, after Trump’s election victory, Merchan indefinitely postponed his sentence, which had been on hold since a jury convicted him in May of falsifying business records to silence his previous election campaign. an alleged past affair with the US president. porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Judge Merchan, who initially wanted to hand down his sentence in early summer, agreed to delay it twice after the defense argued he had presidential immunity under the Supreme Court ruling and that his sentence would interfere with the November 5 elections.
The attorneys also alluded to the recent dropping of both cases by special prosecutor Jack Smith. federal criminal cases he filed against Trumpfor storming the Capitol and taking classified documents from the White House, to bolster their arguments.
