Former President Donald Trump asked a judge in Florida to dismiss charges against him related to classified documents on the grounds that the Department of Justice was unfairly targeting him, according to court documents made public on Thursday.
Trump’s defense attorneys made the request in March in a previously sealed filing, claiming that special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution against him was “selective and vindictive.”
Trump’s attorneys drew comparisons to nine other officials, including President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence, arguing that they had allegedly mishandled classified material but were never held accountable for it in the same way Trump has been.
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“American history is chock full of public examples involving alleged mishandling of classified information and documents, which did not result in
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