Huawei lawyers claim Trump created ‘ominous’ climate for extradition of CFO Meng to US: Documents

Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, have applied to a Canadian court seeking stays in the proceedings for her extradition to the United States, documents released on Thursday showed.

The applications are based in part on what Meng’s lawyers allege was a destruction of the integrity of the judicial process by United States President Donald Trump and other senior members of the administration by their intention to use Meng “as a bargaining chip in a trade dispute.”

Meng was arrested in December 2018 at the Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the United States.