Trump pleads with Mar-a-Lago judge to toss case because Dr. Deborah Birx wasn't prosecuted for her 'boxes' of docs
Source: Law & Crime
May 2nd, 2024, 11:59 am
Attorneys for Donald Trump asked the Mar-a-Lago judge to throw out his indictment, arguing that he is being prosecuted under the Espionage Act unlike several similarly situated others, including Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 pandemic response coordinator remembered for squirming in a chair upon hearing the then president suggest at a press conference that a disinfectant “injection” could help treat coronavirus.
The defense began its argument Thursday by appealing to “American history” that is “chock full of public examples involving alleged mishandling of classified information and documents” without Espionage Act and obstruction prosecutions resulting, before naming President Joe Biden, Trump’s former Vice President Mike Pence, former President Bill Clinton, former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, General David Petraeus, and Birx.
Trump, charged with willful retention of national defense information and engaging in a conspiracy to obstruct the FBI and a grand jury from recovering classified documents that his co-defendants allegedly tried to conceal at his direction by moving numerous “boxes” around and scheming to delete video footage, maintains that special counsel Jack Smith’s case cannot survive in light of the aforementioned non-prosecution examples.
“[T]he unproven obstruction allegations by the Special Counsel’s Office cannot save this prosecution. Hillary Clinton and her colleagues deleted 31,830 emails and destroyed data on numerous electronic devices, including after a congressional preservation order,” the filing said. “Comey hid from the FBI that he had used a private scanner and his personal email account to transmit at least two classified documents to his personal attorneys. Berger stole documents from NARA and cut three of them ‘into small pieces,’ which resulted in NARA having informal ‘Sandy Berger’ rules.” The filing also took aim at Dr. Birx, saying she had “six boxes” of her own of interest to the National Archives (NARA), and that “a classified document” was found inside. But yet, no prosecution, Trump’s lawyers said:
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Full headline: ‘Intolerable’: Trump pleads with Mar-a-Lago judge to toss case because Dr. Deborah Birx wasn’t prosecuted for her ‘boxes’ of docs
Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24630633/trump-dismissal-argument.pdf
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That 'everyone else' doing something wrong or stupid isn't a reason for you to do it. Even if they don't realise it, most parents have been teaching the fallacy of argumentum ad populum ever since time immemorial: 'If Ian jumped off a cliff, would you do it, too?'
... but they sure as hell aren't going to continue supporting you, knowing you squealed on them.
There's nothing to be gained by this, as parents know well.
