A prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smith's team has told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that a motion to dismiss a classified documents case involving Donald Trump was "garbage."
According to The Associated Press, Stanley Woodward, a lawyer for Trump's personal valet and co-defendant Walt Nauta, accused Smith of targeting his client with a vindictive prosecution.
Both Nauta and Trump have pleaded not guilty to charges related to the mishandling of classified documents.
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Woodward "conceded to Cannon that there was insufficient evidence to dismiss the indictment on grounds of vindictive prosecution. But he said there was enough for her to order prosecutors to turn over all communication they had about Nauta to see if hostility existed," the AP reported.
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"There was a campaign to get Mr. Nauta to cooperate in the first federal prosecution of a former president of the United States, and when he refused, they prosecuted him," Woodward reportedly said. "That's a violation of his constitutional rights."
Prosecutor David Harbach, however, called the argument "garbage."
"There is not a single bit of evidence of animus toward Mr. Nauta," he told Cannon.
Attorneys for Trump were also expected to argue to dismiss the case at the hearing.
