Former President Donald Trump is trying to push back the start of his New York trial concerning money payments that were made to former porn star Stormy Daniels until after the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on a separate case concerning presidential immunity. It’s amazing how many different cases the left has thrown at Trump to take him down ahead of the general election this year. They will stop at nothing to ensure Biden wins in November. However, it’s too little, too late.
Here’s more from Newsmax:
Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to 34 charges of falsifying business records in the case, is set to stand trial beginning on March 25. On Monday, the former president asked the judge presiding over the case to delay the trial until after the Supreme Court reviews the immunity claims he made in a different case.
Although Trump has not asserted presidential immunity in an attempt to have the charges against him thrown out, his legal team argued that presidential immunity should prevent prosecutors from including certain evidence during the trial.
“Therefore, President Trump respectfully submits that an adjournment of the trial is appropriate to await further guidance from the Supreme Court, which should facilitate the appropriate application of the presidential immunity doctrine in this case to the evidence the People intend to offer at trial,” Trump’s attorneys went on to say in a motion, according to a report from The Hill.
“The Court must preclude the People from offering evidence at trial of President Trump’s official acts as the Commander in Chief, which the People have not yet specified as the existing trial date approaches,” they continued.
This latest development comes just several weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to take up the claims Trump made about having presidential immunity that arose from the federal 2020 election subversion case against him in D.C.
More from The Hill:
The former president’s appeals in D.C. have successfully delayed his federal criminal trial there indefinitely.
His theory that he cannot be criminally prosecuted has been rejected by both his federal election interference trial judge in Washington, D.C., and a three-judge panel on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the case remains on hold while the Supreme Court considers the matter.
“For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant,” the D.C. Circuit panel wrote in its 57-page decision earlier this month. “We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter.”
It seems like every time Trump wins one of these battles, there’s another one to take its place. Have you ever witnessed a president take so much grief from his political enemies? The level of hatred he faces daily is off the charts. Yet he has the gumption to still run for president anyway. Unreal.
I guess that’s why so many people like him. He fights fire with fire and pulls no punches.
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