GOP Reps Have a Familiar Strategy for Trump Trial: Whatabout Hunter Biden?

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As Donald Trump’s first criminal trial begins on Monday, the former president’s defenders have been lodging a familiar list of complaints about why the case against him is misguided and unfair.

Trump’s case—stemming from a six-figure hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 election—prompted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. to bring 34 felony counts against the former president related to falsifying business records, after he allegedly tried to cover up those payments.

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