Judge Handling Trump’s Latest Indictment Worked With Hunter Biden
Former President Donald Trump is facing yet another batch of federal criminal charges, this time in connection with his allegedly illegal challenge of the 2020 presidential election results.
While many Trump supporters are describing this indictment as further evidence of a conspiracy to prosecute the likely 2024 GOP presidential candidate, there is early evidence that he could face an uphill battle in court due to the judge assigned to the case.
Not only was U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan nominated by former President Barack Obama, but she also reportedly worked at the D.C. law firm Boies, Schiller, & Flexner during the same period that President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, was employed there.
Both individuals left the firm in 2014, Chutkan to become a district judge for the District of Columbia and Biden to accept his controversial and lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.
Given her connection to the Bidens, a number of legal pundits are calling on Chutkan to recuse herself from the case.
During a recent Fox Business Network appearance, former House Intelligence Committee lead counsel Kash Patel offered an additional argument in favor of replacing the judge. He cited his work in determining that the widely debunked dossier used to allege Russian collusion on the part of Trump’s 2016 campaign had been paid for by Democratic operatives — including the campaign of presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
When he went to court to obtain a congressional subpoena for evidence to prove this connection, Chutkan was the judge initially assigned to the case.
“She recused herself from that matter because her law firm represented Burisma, Hunter Biden, Fusion GPS, the [Democratic National Committee], and the entire Democratic entrenched encampment,” Patel said.
In light of her decision to step down from that matter, he argued: “How can she now sit on the very case of Donald J. Trump that launched that baseless investigation?”
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz was also a panelist during the Fox Business segment and agreed with Patel’s assessment.
He described Chutkan’s former law firm as “one of the most corrupt” and staffed by “Democratic hacks.”
As the matter currently stands, Dershowitz indicated that Trump’s legal team appears to have a compelling case for shifting the court proceedings to a different venue.
“The first motion his lawyers will make will be a change of venue to northern Virginia where the jury pool will be fairer,” he said.
