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filed against him dismissed, claiming any act he took leading up to the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol should be considered part of his presidential duties.The lawyers moved to cast Trump’s statements to hold on to power and effectively undertake a coup as an attempt to “ensure election integrity,” adding a president must, at times, be able to take “
“The defendant is not above the law,” prosecutors wrote. “He is subject to the federal criminal laws like more than 330 million other Americans, including members of Congress, federal judges, and everyday citizens.”“In staking his claim, he purports to draw a parallel between his fraudulent efforts to overturn the results of an election that he lost and the likes of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and George Washington’s Farewell Address,” the filing continued. “These things are not alike.
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