Hunter Biden’s legal team is trying to subpoena Trump

Hunter Biden’s lawyers are seeking federal court to subpoena documents from former President Donald Trump and other former Justice Department officials over their “relentless, inappropriate and partisan pressure” against him.

Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, and the legal team asked U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika on Wednesday to review the records to determine whether former Attorney General Bill Barr, former Acting Assistant Director General Richard Donoghue and former acting AG Jeffrey Rosen along with Trump applied political pressure. in a criminal case against the son of President Joe Biden.

the papers archived with the Delaware federal court asking that the subpoenas seek any documents discussing the younger Biden, including journal entries made by the named parties. Trump was still president in 2018 when the investigation into Biden’s taxes and gun purchases began. Although he had agreed to what was called a “sweetheart deal” to avoid prosecution on the charges, that deal fell apart.

Hunter Biden wants to subpoena Donald Trump, Bill Barr and others in a court filing?

This seems desperate. pic.twitter.com/ykOmQxqZES

— RareImagery (@RareImagery) November 15, 2023

Filings by Biden’s legal team on Wednesday said there were “certain instances that appear to suggest incessant, inappropriate and partisan pressure applied” by then-President Trump on members of his Justice Department and also cited comments made by Trump in public, as well as the Jan. 6 congressional committee briefing and even excerpts from Barr’s book in which she claimed Trump had pressured her about the Biden investigation.

“The initial investigation grew out of a broader investigation into Mr. Biden’s tax and foreign business dealings. Public reports reveal certain instances that appear to suggest incessant, inappropriate, and partisan pressure applied by then-President Trump to Messrs. Rosen, Donoghue and Barr in connection with an investigation of Mr. Biden,” the lawyers wrote in the court filing.

“Mr. Biden is seeking specific information from three former DOJ officials and the former president that goes to the heart of his defense that this is possibly vindictive or selective prosecution stemming from a relentless lobbying campaign that began in last administration, in violation of Mr. Biden’s law. Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution,” the presentation continued.

“Clearly there is no measure of charges [Hunter] Biden will never be enough to appease President Comer and Smith and their MAGA allies. As anyone can easily tell, the problem is not just pressure from the Trump-era executive branch; the outside interference of Congressional Republicans and their allies in the judicial process is also incessant and relentless,” they added.

In his criminal case in Delaware, Hunter Biden seeks to subpoena Donald Trump, Bill Barr, Jeff Rosen and Richard Donoghue.

The odds of the judge granting them are low, but still remarkable. https://t.co/lYXex8k4xe

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 15, 2023

The requested subpoenas seek “All personal records (including journals, diaries, memos, memoranda, or notes) of the relevant time period that discuss or refer to Hunter Biden, including but not limited to reference to any decision, discussion or formal or informal decision, or request to investigate or prosecute Hunter Biden.”

The filing notes that Biden is seeking “specific information from three former DOJ officials and the former president that goes to the heart of his defense that this is possibly vindictive or selective prosecution stemming from a relentless lobbying campaign which began in the last administration. in violation of Mr. Biden’s Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.”

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida, where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.

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