Lawyers for Donald Trump argued Monday that President Joe Biden and his administration coordinated with a House select committee to create a politically motivated prosecution, part of a push to dismiss criminal charges related to the former president’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Trump argues in one of the filings late Monday that the now-disbanded bipartisan House select panel to investigate the Jan. 6 attack coordinated with the Justice Department and pressured Biden to file charges, resulting in the indictment in Washington.
That filing seeks to dismiss the charges for “selective and vindictive prosecution.” In it, Trump’s attorneys argue an investigator for the committee alerted federal prosecutors in Washington to “a few details” regarding Trump, and the committee “failed to preserve a huge amount of exculpatory evidence” such as interview materials and records identifying witnesses.
