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#FPOTUS Attorneys Submit Tranche Of Motions In DC Election Fraud Case Hoping Something Sticks... [1]

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Date: 2023-10-24  

On the heals of failing to secure dismissal of the indictment based on his Presidential Immunity, Trump’s legal team must have realized they don’t have all the time in the world.

The New York Times

The lawyers claimed, largely citing news articles, that President Biden had pressured the Justice Department to pursue a “nakedly political” selective prosecution of Mr. Trump. They asserted that prosecutors in the office of the special counsel, Jack Smith, had failed to prove any of the three conspiracy counts brought against the former president.

And they argued that under the principle of double jeopardy, Mr. Trump could not be tried on the election interference charges since he had already been acquitted by the Senate on many of the same accusations during his second impeachment.

The lawyers also tried to persuade Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing the case, that the allegations against Mr. Trump, accusing him of wielding lies about election fraud in a vast campaign to pressure others to help him stay in power, were based on examples of “core political speech” and were therefore protected by the First Amendment.

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