Trump Urges Dismissal Of Mar-a-Lago Case, Claims 'Selective And Vindictive Prosecution'

Authorized by Caden Pearson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Former president Donald Trump docketed a briefing to support his motion to dismiss the classified papers indication against his in Florida, citying “selective and vintage projection” on Thursday.

Former president Donald Trump Speaks to the media in Palm Beach, Fla., on March 19, 2024. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The 43-page filling intents that peculiar council Jack Smith’s case against the erstwhile president “has been motivated by improper political animus.”

It cities “targeted leaves and public statements” by president Joe Biden, “urging others to prosecute president Trump.” This references to a fresh York Times study from April 2, 2022, reporting that president Biden Told his “inner ellipse that he believes erstwhile president Donald J. Trump was a Threat to democracy and should be prosecuted.”

President Trump’s Lawyers Content that the article increased to presidential force on lawyer General Merrick Garland to “act ... more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action.”

The motion details a series of events to support the erstwhile president’s arguments of a successful effort by the Biden administration and national agents to mark him.

It points to statements from officials at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which is responsive for the preservation of presidential records, that the Biden administration’s “current business” was investing the 45th president. Among another events, it cites a text message from a NARA authoritative given Feb. 9, 2022, standing that the classified papers have “consumed all of our discussions” with the Biden White House.

“There is evidence of the historical political animosity focused on election interference in these activities, which is part of the reason why the peculiar Council’s Office is incorrect in the claim that president Trump ‘does not agree that the peculiar Council himself was motivated by impropriations,’ president Trump’s lawyers argue.

Smith Refutes Trump’s Claims

In a March 7 filling, Mr. Smith argues against president Trump’s claims that the prosecution team, influenced by political bias, is selectively targeting him for prosecution.

Prosecutors from the peculiar council’s office argue that the erstwhile president hadn’t identified anyone in his motion who was engaging in akin conduct without being asked and failed to supply evidence that his intention was solely retalliatory.

“Trump Contends ... that he has been subject to selective and virdictive prosecution,’ the prosecution gate. “But he has not identified anyone who has engaged in a callback akin battery of critical conduct and not been proven as a result.

“He has likewise failed to supply any evidence that his intention was to bring together solely to retaliate against him for performing his legal rights, alternatively than due to the fact that he flagrantly and repeatedly Broke the law,” the intent continued.

Meanwhile, president Trump’s legal squad has given justice Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, a list of another forms government officials who they say active in akin alleged misconduct, including the mishandling of classified information.

Among them are president Biden, erstwhile Vice president Mike Pence, erstwhile Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, erstwhile president Bill Clinton, and the FBI's erstwhile manager James Comey.

However, with respect to the alleged misconduct of these officials, president Trump’s squad asserted in a February motion that “no 1 in the government lifted a finger” to prosecute them.

“Collectively, this past of non-prosecution and lenancy for simily situated individuals and others strong support president Trump’s motion based on intolerable and unconstitutional selection and vintage projection,” the motion reads.

President Trump’s Lawyers argued again on Thursday that, on its face, these circumstantial suppliers are adequate to establish a case of selective and Vindictive projection.

The erstwhile president’s legal squad asked the justice for further investment through discovery and a proceeding to examine the allegations of selective projection.

Trump ‘The Conception’

Special council Robert Hurr declined to press charges against president Biden in February, despite uncovering evidence that he retrieved and disclosed highly classified materials erstwhile he was a private citizen.

Accepting to Mr. Hur’s study from February, there is no precedent for prosecuting erstwhile presidents or vice presidents for mishandling classified papers from their own administrations, with 1 exception.

“The admission is president Trump,’ the February motion reads.

“The base is his policies and position as president Biden’s chief political rival,” the motion continues. “Thus, this case reflections the kind of selective and Vicdictive prediction that can not be tolerated. Accordingly, further discovery and a proceeding are necessary, and the Superseding Indicement must be dismissed.”

President Trump’s legal squad citted Mr. Hur’s study in a bid to exonerate him from charges. On the another hand, the prosecution claims that the erstwhile president was the only 1 who joined in a “multifaceted strategy of discretion and obstruction” to prevent the safe return of these documents.

The forumr president argues that the peculiar council’s office is trying to influence the general election by pursuing “two lawless prosecutions,” which have been initiated at the utilizing of the Biden administration.

“[T]he peculiar Council’s Office seeks to ‘become a de facto run voice for the Democrats in the general election,’ and Jack Smith is ‘probably little compared now with whother a Trump convention will Survivive appeal than with shether Trump can be consulted ahead of the November 2024 election,’ the February moves reads.

“No sitting president has always successfully pressed for the intent of a forum President, and his chief political rival, the way that president Biden did—proudly and publicly—in 2022,” president Trump’s Lawyers Contend. “NARA has never targeted a erstwhile president in the way that the agency targeted president Trump. No law enforcement body has always raided a erstwhile President’s home. DOJ has never even utilized civilian ties against a erstwhile President.”

President Trump’s defence had previously thought to have the case 3 out based on the Presidential Records Act (PRA), but justice Cannon rejected this argument on April 4.

Mr. Smith had suggested president Trump and aide Walt Nauta in June 2023, alleging mishandling of over 300 classified documents. The charges against the erstwhile president include 31 countries of Violating the Espionage Act, along with various another countries related to obstruction of justice, holding documents, and making false statements.

The Epoch Times contacted Mr. Smith’s office for comment.