(3 Dec 2024)
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ARCHIVE: New York – 16 April 2024
1. Former US President Donald Trump in hallway outside of court
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Washington – 3 December 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
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"Lawyers for President-elect Donald Trump are citing the pardon of Hunter Biden and asking a judge in New York to set aside his hush money convictions. Hunter Biden was pardoned on Sunday night by his father, President Joe Biden. In the announcement of the clemency, the president said that he believed his son had been selectively and unfairly prosecuted by virtue of his last name. And in their new court filing, Donald Trump’s lawyers are making the exact same argument. They, too, say that the prosecution of their client by the Manhattan district attorney’s office was selective and unfair, and they say it needs to end now."
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ARCHIVE: Jones Island, South Carolina — 13 August 2022
3. STILL of President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden leaving Holy Spirit Catholic Church
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ARCHIVE: Fort McNair, Washington DC – 25 June 2023
4. STILL of President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden arriving at Fort McNair
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Washington – 3 December 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eric Tucker, The Associated Press:
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"The District Attorney’s office will file a response next week. They’ve already said that they’re okay with the idea of putting the case on hold during the duration of Trump’s presidency, but they’ve rejected and resisted the idea of dismissing it outright just because Trump is about to reclaim the White House."
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ARCHIVE: New York – 15 April 2024
6. Donald Trump in hallway outside of court
STORYLINE:
President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers formally asked a judge Monday to throw out his hush money criminal conviction, arguing that continuing the case would present unconstitutional “disruptions to the institution of the Presidency.“
In a filing made public Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers told Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan that anything short of immediate dismissal would undermine the transition of power, as well as the “overwhelming national mandate" granted to Trump by voters last month.
They also cited President Joe Biden’s recent pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, who had been convicted of tax and gun charges.
“President Biden asserted that his son was ‘selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,’ and ‘treated differently,’" Trump’s legal team wrote. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, they claimed, had engaged in the type of political theater "that President Biden condemned.”
Prosecutors will have until Dec. 9 to respond. They have said they will fight any efforts to dismiss the case but have indicated a willingness to delay the sentencing until after Trump’s second term ends in 2029. In their filing Monday, Trump’s attorneys dismissed the idea of holding off sentencing until Trump is out of office as a “ridiculous suggestion.”
Following Trump’s election victory last month, Merchan halted proceedings and indefinitely postponed his sentencing, previously scheduled for late November, to allow the defense and prosecution to weigh in on the future of the case. He also delayed a decision on Trump’s prior bid to dismiss the case on immunity grounds.
Trump has been fighting for months to reverse his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to suppress her claim that they had sex a decade earlier. He says they did not and denies any wrongdoing.
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