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Former President Donald Trump’s attorneys filed their first motion to dismiss the federal election interference case against their client, arguing that Trump has “absolute immunity” from prosecution for actions taken while he was president.
This is the first of what is most likely many motions to dismiss the case that Special Counsel Jack Smith has brought against Trump, accusing him of attempting to rig the 2020 election.
In August, Trump pleaded not guilty to charges that he had engaged in a “criminal scheme” to overturn the results of the 2020 election by enlisting a slate of so-called “fake electors,” using the Justice Department to conduct “sham election crime investigations,” trying to enlist the vice president to “alter the election results,” and promoting false claims of a stolen election as the
The ex-president has denied all allegations and called them “a persecution of a political opponent.”
James D. Zirin, a former federal prosecutor in New York’s Southern District, published an op-ed in The Hill detailing the argument of “immunity”…
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