Trump Calls for 'Immediate' Dismissal of Hush-Money Case - BNN Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump’s silence petition should be dismissed “immediately” because continuing his prosecution would “disrupt the operation” of the U.S. government, his lawyers told a Manhattan judge.

Trump’s lawyers said in a letter to the court on Wednesday that pursuing the case would be “uniquely destabilizing for the country.” Trump faces up to four years in prison after a jury in May found him guilty of falsifying business records for payments made to an adult film star before the 2016 election.

Prosecutors on Tuesday told the judge they would oppose any attempt to dismiss the case, but said they were open to delaying any trial while Trump is in the White House.

In response, his attorneys, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, said in the letter that the election results earlier this month violated the Constitution of the prosecution, which was only one of four criminal cases filed against the former president. They asked Manhattan state judge Juan Merchan to give them until Dec. 20 to file a formal petition explaining why the case should be dismissed.

“The Constitution prohibits placing in the hands of a single prosecutor and grand jury the power to interfere with the ability of a popularly elected President to discharge his constitutional duties,” his attorneys wrote. “Just as a sitting President is completely immune from any criminal process, so is President Trump as President-elect.”

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