Former President Donald Trump has long claimed that the criminal and civil cases against him are politically motivated and designed to hinder his campaign efforts, and in recent weeks his legal teams have merged those arguments into his various case defenses.
In the federal court in the Southern District of Florida, for example, where special counsel Jack Smith is prosecuting the former president for allegedly mishandling classified documents kept at his Mar-a-Lago residence, President Trump made new allegations of election interference.
“The Special Counsel’s Office has disregarded basic discovery obligations and DOJ policies in an effort to support the Biden administration’s egregious efforts to weaponize the criminal justice system in pursuit of an objective that President Biden cannot achieve on the campaign trail: slowing down President Trump’s leading campaign in the 2024 presidential election,” reads a new motion, referring to the Department of Justice….
