President-elect Donald Trump's defense lawyers are leveraging President Joe Biden's recent pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, to push for the dismissal of Trump's conviction in his Manhattan hush money case. In a motion filed on Monday, Trump's lawyers highlighted Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden, which covered all potential crimes, charged or uncharged, for a period of 10 years. They pointed to Biden's assertion that his son was unfairly prosecuted and treated differently, suggesting that this reflected negatively on Biden's own Justice Department.
The lawyers, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who have been selected for top Justice Department positions in Trump's upcoming administration, argued that these remarks by Biden amounted to a condemnation of his own Justice Department. They further contended that the New York District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, had engaged in political theater similar to what Biden criticized.
