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US 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 embezzlement case should be thrown out.
“In issuing a 10-year pardon to Hunter Biden yesterday that covers 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 in Monday.
Trump’s lawyers — Todd Blanche and Emil Bove — whom he has tapped for top Justice Department posts in his new administration — argue that the comments are a condemnation of Biden’s own Justice Department and that New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg was engaging in the same kind of “political theater “.
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Bragg’s office successfully prosecuted Trump earlier this year for falsifying business records related to 2016 undercover payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Judge Juan Merchan delayed Trump’s sentencing indefinitely after Trump was re-elected. Trump’s lawyers also want the conviction thrown out, but prosecutors say they will oppose any attempt to dismiss the case.
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