Former President Donald Trump’s legal team cited President Joe Biden’s call this week for Trump to be locked up as evidence that one of the federal cases against him needs to be tossed, the New York Post reported.
Trump’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference case, arguing the charges were politically motivated and that Smith was unlawfully appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Garland tapped Smith to prosecute Trump at Biden’s request in an effort to “target” the Republican, who was one of Biden’s top political rivals when the charges were filed.
“In November 2022, the Attorney General violated the Appointments Clause by naming private-citizen Smith to target President Trump, while President Trump was campaigning to take back the Oval Office from the Attorney General’s boss, without a statutory basis for doing so,” the filing said.
“Garland did so following improper public urging from President Biden to target President Trump, as reported at the time in 2022, and repeated recently by President Biden through his inappropriate instruction to ‘lock him up’ while Smith presses forward with the case unlawfully as the Presidential election rapidly approaches,” it added. […]
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