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Judge Tanya Chutkan denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the case — he claimed that the Biden administration pursued the case to keep him from returning to the White House next year — in a 16-pageSaturday. She wrote that he “proffered no meaningful evidence … nor has he given any explanation of how a hearing would produce material evidence to support his claims.” One day earlier, the Supreme Courtthe case to the U.S.
With the case being returned to Chutkan on Friday, she finally addressed a motion to dismiss the case from Trump’s defense team filed in October 2023. The judge found that the government neither selectively nor vindictively prosecuted the former president. “But there is no indication that President Biden ever expressed any such comments to the Attorney General or the Justice Department, much less that such comments actually resulted in politically motivated action,” Chutkan wrote.
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