Donald Trump’s criminal silent money case The impeachment inquiry in New York “must be dismissed immediately” because it disrupts the president-elect’s transition and “threatens the operation of the federal government,” Trump’s lawyers argued in court Tuesday.
In a lengthy filing that peppered legal arguments with politicians, Trump’s lawyers hit out at special counsel Jack Smith’s latest motion to drop his federal charges against Trump based on a Justice Department policy that barred the prosecution of the president, including President Joe Biden. forgiveness to his son Hunter Biden weekend.
“As President Biden said yesterday, ‘Enough is enough.’ This case that should never have been brought must be dismissed,” wrote Trump attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, both of whom Trump has appointed to top Justice Department positions in the new administration.
The 72-page motion to dismiss follows Judge Juan Merchan’s decision last week postpone indefinitely Trump’s conviction comes after he was convicted in May of falsifying business records related to payments he made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to boost his 2016 presidential election chances.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has suggested delaying sentencing until Trump ends his second term in 2029 to “balance the competing constitutional interests” of Trump’s conviction and presidential duties.
Trump’s lawyers argued in their filing that the delay would violate Justice Department policy that prohibits the prosecution of the president.
“Thus, DANY’s ludicrous suggestion that proceedings could be resumed after President Trump leaves office, more than a decade after the investigation began in 2018, is not an option,” the filing argued.
Donald Trump participates in a town hall presented by Spanish-language network Univision in Doral, Florida on October 16, 2024.
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In addition to citing Justice Department policy, Trump’s lawyers argued that the Presidential Transition Act, the Supremacy Clause and presidential immunity require the case to be dismissed immediately.
Defense attorneys also repeated past arguments — which they called, without evidence, that Judge Merchan’s political motivations and errors in the trial arose — along with new arguments related to what they called Trump’s “terrible national tenure” since the November election.
“And this case would never have been brought if not for President Trump’s political views, the transformative national movement established under his leadership, and the political threat he poses to entrenched and corrupt politics in Washington, DC and beyond,” the filing says. .
The Manhattan DA’s office has until Dec. 9 to respond to Trump’s motion to dismiss.
They were Trump’s federal election interference case and his classified documents case dismissed without prejudice last week after Smith asked the judge in each case to throw out the cases based on the Justice Department’s presidential immunity policy.
Trump’s fourth criminal case involving allegations election interference In Fulton County, Georgia, it is currently on hold as Trump and his accusers appeal a decision involving the district attorney who brought the suit.
