In a new motion, attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump requested the dismissal of the New York business records case, referencing President Joe Biden’s remarks regarding his son Hunter’s prosecution as proof of political bias. They quoted Biden’s statement that Hunter had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” and claimed that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s actions reflect the same “political theater” Biden criticized.
President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove stated, “President Biden argued that ‘raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.'”
Blanche and Bove wrote, “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 lawyers contended that the case is based on a flawed legal theory and that it would not have been brought if not for Trump’s political views.
They also referenced the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause to argue that local prosecutors should not impede a president’s duties.
George Washington Law School professor Jonathan Turley said, “They took a dead misdemeanor. They attached it to a dead alleged federal felony and zapped it back into life.”
Turley added, “So many of us are just amazed to watch this actually walk into court because it’s not a recognizable crime that any of us have seen.”
Blanche and Bove wrote in their motion to dismiss, “[T]his case would never have been brought were it not for President Trump’s political views, the transformative national movement established under his leadership, and the political threat that he poses to entrenched, corrupt politicians in Washington, D.C. and beyond.”
Blanche and Bove added, “Wrongly continuing proceedings in this failed lawfare case disrupts President Trump’s transition efforts and his preparations to wield the full Article II executive power authorized by the Constitution pursuant to the overwhelming national mandate granted to him by the American people on November 5, 2024.”
Blanche and Bove concluded, “As President Biden put it yesterday, ‘Enough is enough’… This case, which should never have been brought, must now be dismissed.”
