President Trump submitted a motion on Thursday to dismiss the Florida classified documents indictment, citing “selective and vindictive prosecution” as grounds for dismissal.
The defense’s motion references Robert Hur’s February report, in which the special counsel noted that, apart from one instance, there is no documented record of the Department of Justice prosecuting a former president or vice president for mishandling classified documents from their own administration.
Trump’s legal team had previously sought to dismiss the case based on the Presidential Records Act (PRA), a motion that Judge Aileen Cannon denied on April 4.
“American history is chock full of public examples involving alleged mishandling of classified information and documents, which did not result in the type of politically motivated charges that the Special Counsel’s Office has brought against President Trump and his co-defendants,” the new filing reads.
