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Thursday December 05, 2024

Trump cites Hunter Biden pardon in seeking hush money case dismissal

By AFP
December 05, 2024
US President Joe Biden (left) President-elect Donald Trump (centre) and Hunter Biden. — AFP/File
US President Joe Biden (left) President-elect Donald Trump (centre) and Hunter Biden. — AFP/File

NEW YORK: US President-elect Donald Trump´s attorneys sought to dismiss his historic criminal fraud conviction in a new filing released late on Tuesday -- arguing President Joe Biden used similar reasoning to pardon his son, Hunter Biden.

The Democratic lame-duck president pardoned his son on Sunday, after Hunter was convicted earlier this year of tax evasion and illegally possessing a firearm, arguing he was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” by the Department of Justice (DOJ) “only because he is my son.”