Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, have applied to a Canadian court for stays of 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 U.S. President Donald Trump and other senior members of the administration by their intention to use Meng "as a bargaining chip in a trade dispute."