President-elect Donald Trump is seeking the “immediate dismissal” of the New York hush money case, in which a jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of business falsification, citing the “uniquely destabilizing” effects of sentencing an incoming president.
“As DA Bragg engages in his own election campaign, [the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office] appears to not yet be ready to dismiss this politically-motivated and fatally flawed case, which is what is mandated by the law and will happen as justice takes its course,” lawyers for Trump wrote in a letter to Judge Juan Merchan on Wednesday.
The notice provided to the judge previews Trump’s arguments for his official motion to dismiss, and defense attorneys have asked for a Dec. 20 to file their motion seeking immediate dismissal.
