President-elect Trump’s attorneys laid out their arguments for why his criminal conviction should be dismissed

 

Trump’s hush money dismissal motion invokes Hunter Biden pardon

BY ZACH SCHONFELD - 12/03/24 4:30 PM ET

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Lititz, Pa., Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

President-elect Trump’s attorneys laid out their arguments for why his criminal conviction in New York should be dismissed entirely in a new court filing made public Tuesday in which they cited Hunter Biden’s pardon earlier this week.

Since he won the election, Trump has pushed for tossing the jury’s 34-count guilty verdict that stems from a 2016 hush money payment, drawing opposition from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D), who has instead floated merely freezing the case during Trump’s term. 

The new brief expands upon Trump’s past assertion that dismissal is required in the interests of justice now that he is president-elect and now with his attorneys are citing President Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter. 

”As President Biden put it yesterday, ‘Enough is enough,’” wrote Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who Trump has also tapped for No. 2 and No. 3 positions in his incoming Justice Department.

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