Donald Trump cites Hunter Biden's pardon in bid to throw out the hush money trial charges READ MORE: Sign up for DailyMail.com's daily political email LISTEN: Stormy Daniels on the Mail’s hit podcast 'Everything I Know About Me.' Available wherever you get your podcasts now By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR and ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: 22:18 GMT, 3 December 2024 | Updated: 22:30 GMT, 3 December 2024 e-mail View comments Donald Trump 's lawyers have repurposed President Biden's line that 'enough is enough' when pardoning his son to argue that a New York judge should immediately dismiss his own hush money case. The langauge, in a new legal filing Tuesday from Trump's team, rips language from the Biden statement issued by the White House to justify the extraordinary pardon of his son Hunter for any offenses dating back to 2014. That move provoked admonitions from some elected Democrats who arged that Biden was putting 'family over country.' 'As President Biden put it yesterday, 'Enough is enough,'' Trump's lawyers wrote in their latest filing to Judge Juan Merchan, who has already put the case on ice by postponing sentencing indefinitely following Trump's win in the Novembver elecitons. 'Wrongly continuing proceedings in this failed lawfare case disrupts President Trump ́s transition efforts,' the attorneys continued, before citing the 'overwhelming national mandate granted to him by the American people on November 5, 2024,' they wrote. Trump's lawyers formally asked a judge Monday to throw out his hush money criminal conviction , arguing continuing the case would present unconstitutional 'disruptions to the institution of the Presidency.' A New York jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records in relation to 'hush' payments to porn star Stormy Daniels , who claims she had a sexual affair with Trump. He denies it. The filing was signed by lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who have eached been nominated by Trump to high level Justice Department posts. In a filing made public Tuesday, Trump ́s lawyers told Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan that dismissal is warranted because of the extraordinary circumstances of his impending return to the White House . Donald Trump's lawyers plucked language from President Biden's statement on the pardon of his son Hunter, quoting his claims of political prosecution and saying 'Enough is enough' It comes just two days after some Democrats blasted Biden for having 'put his family ahead of the country' by pardoning Hunter, at a time when Trump has vowed to take 'retribution' against his political enemies. In the court filing, Trump ́s lawyers weren't shy about citing Biden ́s recent pardon of his son, who had been convicted of tax and gun charges . Read More Why Joe Biden and members of his family could be even more exposed after he pardoned Hunter 'President Biden asserted that his son was `selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted, ́ and `treated differently , ́' Trump ́s legal team wrote. The Manhattan district attorney, they claimed, had engaged in the type of political theater 'that President Biden condemned.' 'Yesterday, in issuing a 10-year pardon to Hunter Biden that covers any and all crimes Whether charged or uncharged, President Biden asserted that his son was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.” and “treated differently,"' Trump's lawyers began. 'President Biden argued that “raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.” These comments amounted to an extraordinary condemnation of President Bidens own DOJ. This isthe same DOJ tha coordinated and oversaw the politically-motivated, election-interference witch hunts targeting President Trump. by disgraced Special Counsel Jack Smith, the other biased prosecutors in Smith's Special ‘Counsel's Office ("SCO"), and others,' they wrote, picking Trump's own repeated claims of facing a 'witch hunt.' Prosecutors will have until Dec. 9 to respond. They have said they will fight any efforts to dismiss the case but have indicated openness to delaying sentencing until after Trump ́s second term ends in 2029. Under an alternate scenario, both Trump and Hunter could have been jailed. Trump was facing up to four years after his conviction, although Merchan also could have imposed community service or probation. Hunter Biden was facing sentencing this month after pleading guilty to tax charges in Calfornia and a jury conviction on gun charges in Delaware. Biden argued that Hunter had been 'singled out' because his last name was Biden, although some members of his own party argued the pardon would bring blowback Biden, who is in Angola, has yet to take questions about the pardon Following Trump ́s election victory last month, Merchan halted proceedings and indefinitely postponed his sentencing, previously scheduled for late November, to allow the defense and prosecution to weigh in on the future of the case. He also delayed a decision on Trump ́s prior bid to dismiss the case on immunity grounds. Trump has been fighting for months to reverse the conviction, which involved efforts to conceal a $130,000 payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels, whose affair allegations threatened to disrupt his 2016 campaign . He has denied any wrongdoing. Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Merchan hasn ́t set a timetable for a decision. A dismissal would erase Trump ́s historic conviction, sparing him the cloud of a criminal record and possible prison sentence. Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime and the first convicted criminal to be elected to the office. Merchan could also decide to uphold the verdict and proceed to sentencing, delay the case until Trump leaves office, wait until a federal appeals court rules on Trump ́s parallel effort to get the case moved out of state court or choose some other option. Politics Donald Trump Joe Biden Hunter Biden Share or comment on this article: Donald Trump cites Hunter Biden's pardon in bid to throw out the hush money trial charges e-mail Add commentThree of these images are fake. Can you spot the real image? Some images generated by artificial intelligence have become so convincingly real that there is no surefire way to spot the fakes. But experts say there are still things we can try to detect fakes. "Media literacy is super awesome," said Matt Groh, assistant professor at Northwestern University. "But it needs to extend to AI literacy. Like the classic kind of things that you want to teach in media literacy, we still need to teach those same things. We just need to add the AI portion to it now." RELATED STORY | Nobel Prize in physics awarded to 2 scientists for discoveries that enabled artificial intelligence Groh's team at Northwestern released a guide on how to spot AI generated images. The full preprint paper was released in June. "So what we've done is we've articulated 5 different categories of artifacts, implausibilities," Groh said. "Ways to tell AI-generated image apart from a real photograph." The academic preprint guide offers detailed tips, tricks and examples on spotting AI-generated images. It also teaches important questions to consider when consuming media. Anatomical implausibilities The first and easiest telltale signs: anatomical implausibilities. Ask yourself: Are the fingers, eyes, and bodies off? Are there extra limbs or do they bend strangely? Are there too many teeth? Stylistic implausibilities Ask yourself: Do images seem plastic, glossy, shiny or cartoonish? Are there overly dramatic or cinematic? Functional implausibilities Ask yourself: Is text garbled? Is clothing strange? Are objects not physically correct, like how this backpack strap merges into clothing? Violation of physics Ask yourself: Are light and shadows off? Are there impossible reflections? Sociocultural implausibilities Ask yourself: Are there images that are just too unbelievable or historically inaccurate? RELATED STORY | AI voice cloning: How programs are learning to pick up on pitch and tone "What we're trying to do is give you a snapshot of what it looks like in 2024 and how we can help people move their attention as effectively as possible," Groh said. "Education is really the biggest thing. There's education on the tools," said Cole Whitecotton, senior professional research associate at the National Center for Media Forensics. Whitecotton encourages the public to educate themselves and try AI tools to know their capabilities and limits. "I think everybody should go out and use it. And look at how these things do what they do and understand a bit of it," he said. "Everyone should interact with ChatGPT. In some way. Everyone should interact with Midjourney. And look at how these things do what they do and understand a bit of it." Whitecotton suggests being inquisitive and curious when scrolling through social media. "If you interacted with every piece of content in that way, then there you would be a lot less likely to be duped and to be sort of sucked into that sort of stuff, right?" he said. "How do you interact with Facebook and with Twitter and all these things? How do you consume the media?" Whitecotton added. RELATED STORY | Biden's AI advisor speaks on AI policy, deepfakes, and the use of AI in war While AI-generated images and videos continue to evolve, Groh and his team offer a realistic approach to a changing technological landscape where tips and tricks may become outdated quickly. "I think a real, good, useful thing is we build this. We update this every year. Okay, some of these things work. Some of these things don't. And I think once we have a base, we're able to update it," Groh said. "I think one of the problems is we didn't have a base. And so one of the things we're really excited about is even sharing our framework, because I think our framework is going to help people just navigate that conversation." So were you able to guess which image is real? If you guessed the image of the girl in the bottom left corner, you are correct! "It sucks that there's this misinformation in the world. But it's also possible to navigate this new problem," Groh said. If you want to test yourself even more, the Northwestern University research team has released this site that gives you a series of real and AI-generated images to differentiate.
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