Citing the presidential pardon granted to Joe Biden’s son, US President-elect Donald Trump officially called for the annulment of his historic criminal conviction in the Stormy Daniels affair. He was found guilty of hidden payments.
The guilty verdict was handed down in May. The hidden payments had been made to a pornographic film actress so that she would keep quiet about a sexual encounter ten years before the 2016 presidential election. The pronouncement of her sentence has been repeatedly postponed and remains in abeyance, her defense using all avenues .
Describing the affair as “phony”, Donald Trump has always denied the relationship. The Republican accused justice of being exploited by his Democratic adversaries.
In a 70-page court document released Tuesday, Donald Trump’s lawyers, whom he named future numbers two and three of the next Department of Justice, demand that “the court immediately vacates the indictment and the jury’s verdict” .
Biden’s about-face as an argument
In their appeal dated Monday, the councils do not fail to invoke a political-legal event that occurred the previous evening: in an about-face, the current President of the United States of America Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday , convicted, in two separate cases, of illegal possession of a firearm and tax evasion.
This presidential pardon for a period of ten years, even before the sentences against Hunter Biden were handed down, provoked indignation among Republicans and unease among Democrats.
“By deciding yesterday [dimanche] of a ten-year pardon for Hunter Biden covering any of his crimes or offenses, whether or not they are prosecuted, President Biden claimed that his son had been ‘singled out and unfairly accused’ and ‘treated differently'”, argue Donald Trump’s lawyers, quoting the outgoing president who spoke of a “judicial error”. They see in these “remarks a condemnation of President Biden’s own Justice Department, the same one that coordinated and oversaw the political witch hunt and election interference against President Trump.”
Convicted once criminally and twice civilly by the courts, Donald Trump saw his federal judicial horizon completely cleared by the abandonment of at least two criminal proceedings thanks to his re-election and the historic judgment of the Supreme Court which expanded the scope of presidential immunity on July 1.
