Trump cites Biden's special counsel report in a new filing in criminal docs case

Donald Trump's legal team late Friday evening filed a brief before Aileen Cannon, the Florida judge overseeing the former president's criminal documents case, and cited the recent special counsel report about Joe Biden.

Trump filed a reply brief in further support of his motions to compel discovery in the case, saying he deserves an order regarding the "scope of the prosecution team, and to compel Special Counsel's Office to produce certain discoverable materials."

"The Defendants seek judicial intervention to thwart ongoing discovery abuses by the Special Counsel’s Office in connection with a case that should have never been brought and must ultimately be dismissed on the basis of, inter alia, selective and vindictive prosecution," Trump's legal team wrote in the filing.

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It continues:

"Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice released a report issued by Special Counsel Robert Hur, finding that President Biden has 'willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,' over the course of his decades-long career. President Biden will not be charged, and President Trump should not have been either."

The filing adds:

"The Hur Report is the latest entry on a long list of similarly situated government officials not being charged with a crime in connection with allegations relating to the handling of classified information. Others include former President William Clinton, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former FBI Director James Comey."

Read it here.