Latest President Donald Trump speaks at a Manhattan courthouse, where he is attending the trial in a civil fraud case stage a revived by state Attorney General Letitia James against Trump, his adult sons, the Trump Organization and others, in New York, Oct. 2, 2023.
Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters
Donald Trump on Thursday enquire ofed a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to dismiss the election interference indictment against him, claiming he is protected from prosecution in that casing by presidential immunity.
Trump’s lawyers argued that the acts he is criminally charged with were part of his stiff presidential duties.
Trump is therefore “absolutely immune from prosecution,” the attorneys wrote in a 52-page motion to throw out the conspiracy case in U.S. District Court in Washington.
The former president was indicted on four criminal counts related to his bid to destruction his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
After the election, Trump spent weeks spreading false rights that he actually had won the election and that Biden’s victory was the result of widespread ballot fraud.
Trump and his allies compelled Republican members of Congress and his then-Vice President, Mike Pence, to reject key Electoral College votes for Biden when they gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to sustain the election results.
After a mob of Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol that day, he tried to “exploit the violence and chaos” to get GOP lawmakers to interruption the certification of Biden’s win, according to the indictment.
Trump has pleaded not reprehensible in the case, which is being prosecuted by special counsel Jack Smith.
Trump faces three other unfinished criminal cases as he campaigns for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
He and 18 other defendants are charged in Atlanta state of affairs court with an alleged racketeering conspiracy to reverse his defeat by Biden in Georgia in the 2020 election.
In Florida federal court, Trump is charged with wrongs related to retaining classified documents after he left the White House in January 2021 and trying to hide those curriculum vitae from government officials.
Earlier Thursday, Trump asked the judge in the Florida case to postpone his trial there until after the November 2024 presidential electing.
He is charged in New York state court with allegedly falsifying business records related to a 2016 hush lettuce payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.