President-elect Donald Trump - and his legal team - are using Joe Biden's recent pardoning of his son Hunter to argue that Trump’s hush money case should be dismissed.

Trump was prosecuted earlier in the year for falsifying business records related to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels in 2016.

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says Biden's choice has come with political blowback - from both sides of the aisle. 

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President-elect Donald Trump - and his legal team - are using Joe Biden's recent pardoning of his son Hunter to argue that Trump’s hush money case should be dismissed.
Trump was prosecuted earlier in the year for falsifying business records related to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels in 2016.
US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says Biden's choice has come with political blowback - from both sides of the aisle.&nbsp;
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Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on Donald Trump citing Hunter Biden pardon in bid to throw out hush money conviction

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