Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures at a Manhattan courthouse, the place he attends the trial of himself, his grownup sons, the Trump Group and others in a civil fraud case introduced by state Legal professional Normal Letitia James, in New York Metropolis, U.S., October 2, 2023.
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Donald Trump on Thursday requested a federal choose in Washington, D.C., to dismiss his election interference indictment, claiming he is protected against prosecution in that case by presidential immunity.
Trump’s attorneys argued that the acts he’s criminally charged with have been a part of his official presidential duties.
Trump is due to this fact “completely immune from prosecution,” the attorneys wrote in a 52-page movement to dismiss the conspiracy case in U.S. District Courtroom in Washington.
The previous president was indicted on 4 felony counts associated to his bid to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
Trump spent weeks spreading false claims that he truly had gained the election and that Biden’s victory was the results of widespread poll fraud.
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Trump has pleaded not responsible within the case, which is being prosecuted by particular counsel Jack Smith.
Trump faces three different pending felony instances as he campaigns for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
He’s charged in Atlanta state court docket with 18 different defendants with an alleged racketeering conspiracy to reverse his defeat by Biden in Georgia within the 2020 election.
In Florida federal court docket, Trump is charged with crimes associated to retaining labeled paperwork after he left the White Home in January 2021, and making an attempt to cover these information from authorities officers.
Earlier Thursday, Trump requested the choose within the Florida case to postpone his trial there till after the November 2024 presidential election.
He’s charged in New York state court docket with allegedly falsifying enterprise information associated to a 2016 hush cash fee to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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