Donald Trump’s lawyers are urging the judge in his New York hush money case to overturn his conviction and dismiss the case in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity.
‘We’re his family today’: Hundreds gather at Jacksonville National Cemetery to lay veteran with no known family to rest Politics Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Trump National Doral Miami, Tuesday, July 9, 2024, in Doral, Fla. The former president's lawyers wrote in papers made public Thursday that prosecutors rushed to try Trump in the spring while the high court was still considering his immunity claims.
The ruling granted broad immunity protections to presidents, insulating them from prosecution for official acts. The court also restricted prosecutors from citing any official acts as evidence in trying to prove a president’s unofficial actions violated the law.
Daniels claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 after meeting him at a celebrity golf tournament in Nevada. Trump has repeatedly denied that claim, saying at his June 27 debate with President Joe Biden, “I didn’t have sex with a porn star.”Prosecutors said the Daniels payment was part of a broader scheme to buy the silence of people who might have gone public during the campaign with embarrassing stories alleging Trump had extramarital sex.
“Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a president’s official acts. It does not reflect in any way the color of the president’s official duties,” Hellerstein added. Among other things, Cohen and ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified that Trump talked with them in the Oval Office during separate 2017 visits about aspects of the hush money arrangements. Jurors saw multiple 2018 Trump tweets about Cohen, which prosecutors portrayed as efforts to pressure Cohen not to cooperate with authorities and punish him when he did.
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