After facing months of accusations by Republicans of favoritism toward Hunter Biden, special counsel David Weiss is now changing course, claiming a motion filed by the son of President Joe Biden attempting to subpoena former President Donald Trump has no merit.
In a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika obtained by The Daily Caller, prosecutors with Weiss’s office assert that Hunter makes no case for protected class nor cites evidence of “vindictive prosecution” that could be attributed to the former president.
“The United States respectfully opposes defendant Robert Hunter Biden’s request to issue subpoenas duces tecum. His motion is meritless and should be denied,” the letter states, referencing subpoena requests for Trump, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, and two other former Justice Department officials.
“It is worth noting from the outset that defendant misunderstands the difference between pretrial arguments to dismiss an indictment and trial defenses. It is black-letter law that claims of vindictive and selective prosecution are not trial defenses and may only be brought and litigated pretrial. They are not defenses…
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