Trump's lawyers say 'official-acts evidence' was used to fill 'glaring holes'
Trump's lawyers say"official-acts evidence" was used to fill"glaring holes"Trump's lawyers argued that prosecutors violated the Supreme Court 's immunity doctrine by using evidence related to official acts.
Trump's lawyers previewed their plan to request the verdict be tossed in a one-page letter to Judge Juan Merchan last week, and their motion today outlined their argument why the Supreme Court's immunity ruling impacts the New York case, which largely centers on Trump's conduct as a presidential candidate to suppress negative information ahead of the 2016 election.
Defense attorneys emphasized the importance of former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks' testimony, including her recounting of interactions with Trump in 2018 when reporting about an alleged hush-money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels broke, to demonstrate Trump's knowledge of the payment and preference the story came out after the election.
Defense lawyers used a similar argument to argue that tweets from Trump -- which prosecutors used to demonstrate an alleged "pressure campaign" to prevent former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen from cooperating with authorities in 2018 -- were official communications protected by immunity because the posts "fall well within the core authority of the Nation's Chief Executive."
"As a result, the harms caused by DANY's course of action are irreparable. The appropriate remedy is dismissal," defense lawyers wrote.
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