‘Unlawful crusade’: Trump moves to affirm Mar-a-Lago case dismissal by blasting Biden over ‘lock him up’ comment and attacking Jack Smith’s authority as ‘unpersuasive dictum’

Jack Smith, on the left; Joe Biden, in the middle; Donald Trump, on the right.

Left: Special Counsel Jack Smith speaks about an August 2023 indictment of former President Donald Trump at a DOJ office in Washington (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File). Center: President Joe Biden delivers remarks on lowering the cost of prescription drugs, at NHTI Concord Community College, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne). Right: Donald Trump speaks to members of the media before departing Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024, in New York (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, Pool).

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump late Friday filed their reply to the government’s appeal of the Mar-a-Lago case dismissal.

In an 85-page filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the defense sought to maintain the status quo by insisting that special counsel Jack Smith was “correctly” defanged by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon after being “unlawfully” granted his authority to prosecute by a White House bent on exacting a political vendetta.

“There is not, and never has been, a basis for Jack Smith’s unlawful crusade against President Trump,” the brief begins. “For almost two years, Smith has operated unlawfully, backed by a largely unscrutinized blank check drawn on taxpayer dollars. More than $36 million has been spent unjustly targeting the leading candidate in the 2024 Presidential election, President Trump, through unprecedented encroachments on Executive power, with President Biden wrongly and inappropriately urging to ‘lock him up’ only days before the filing of this brief as part of the election-interference strategy.”

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