Trump's team demands to drop hush money case after Biden pardons son

Lawyers for US President-elect Donald Trump have filed a formal request to dismiss his hush money case against a porn actress after a judge in November postponed sentencing indefinitely.

According to The Guardian on December 3, Mr. Trump's defense lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the above case in Manhattan, citing the decision of current US President Joe Biden to pardon his son Hunter Biden.

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"Yesterday, in granting Hunter Biden a 10-year pardon, covering all crimes charged and uncharged, President Biden asserted that his son was purposefully and unfairly prosecuted and discriminated against," Trump's lawyer wrote in a filing on December 2.

In addition to the pardon argument, the lawyers also told the judge that Mr. Trump's case should be dismissed because he was re-elected president last month. "Mr. Trump's position as president-elect and incoming president is a legal bar to further criminal proceedings based on presidential immunity (established by the U.S. Supreme Court last summer) and the Supremacy Clause," according to CNN, citing information from Mr. Trump's lawyers.

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President-elect Trump's impending return to the White House has also put his other criminal prosecutions on hold. Lawyers also pointed to Special Counsel Jack Smith's decision to drop two cases against Trump. Smith said the decision stemmed from a long-standing Justice Department policy prohibiting federal prosecutions of a sitting president.

Earlier this year, prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office indicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchant then announced on November 22 that the case would be indefinitely postponed.

Last month, Mr. Bragg’s office acknowledged that Mr. Trump likely would not be convicted “until the end of the next presidential term,” but also argued that the president-elect’s felony conviction should remain in place.

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