Former President Donald Trump asked a judge in New York this week to factor the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity into his hush money trial with the aim of having his conviction tossed out.
While the high court’s ruling that presidents have some immunity from criminal prosecution was related to a separate case in Washington, D.C., Trump’s attorneys plan to argue that the decision has bearing on his Manhattan trial.
The attorneys wrote in a preliminary letter to Judge Juan Merchan that certain witness testimony and social media posts should not have been used during the trial based on the Supreme Court’s ruling that a president’s immunized official acts cannot be used as evidence in a prosecution.
“Under [Trump v. United States], this official-acts evidence should never have been put before the jury,” Trump’s attorneys wrote.
The attorneys are set to…
