Criminals/terrorists are invoking 'The Trump Defense'

New York -- Attorneys for the jihadi terrorist Sayfullo Saipov, a Muslim accused of killing eight people by driving a truck onto a Manhattan bike path in October, are attempting to get a federal judge to prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty. They claim that President Trump's twitter posts have made a fair legal process impossible.

The motion filed in Manhattan federal court states that Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the person who decides whether to pursue the death penalty, cannot be objective because Trump has pressured him to make decisions based on "nakedly political considerations" and has called for Saipov to be executed.

Saipov's lawyers referred to a Monday tweet in which Trump criticized the "Jeff Sessions Justice Department" for indicting two GOP congressmen "just ahead" of the midterm elections. They also mentioned two tweets after Saipov's arrest calling for him to face the death penalty.

They said that the President's tweets make it impossible for Sessions to "exercise independent discretion" on the matter and asked that if the judge refuses to bar the death penalty altogether, an independent prosecutor be appointed to make the decision in place of Sessions.

In other words, they posit that since Sessions went ahead and followed the law by indicting two Republican congressmen right before the midterm elections, that he would bend to Trump's pressure after proving that he wouldn't.

That's ridiculous.

A spokesperson for U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman's office who is prosecuting the scumcrumpet, declined to comment, nor did the Department of Justice.

Saipov is a 30-year-old Uzbek national who plowed his AR-15 truck down a bike lane on the West Side of lower Manhattan. He was arrested immediately on the scene.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest assault on New York City since Sept. 11, 2001.

Saipov was charged in an indictment with eight counts of murder, attempted murder and providing material support to Islamic State. He has pleaded no guilty.

The jihadi told investigators after the attack that he was inspired by Islamic State videos and began planning the killings a year earlier, according to a criminal complaint filed by prosecutors the day after the attack.

Saipov spoke publicly at a pre-trial hearing in June. He spoke of a "war" led by Islamic State to establish sharia on Earth [Islamic law where non-Muslims and all women have few rights] and he dismissed the court's judgment as "not important."

Hopefully he will look forward to meeting his virgins in Paradise, because he doesn't look as if he's had many opportunities to meet any here on Earth.


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