Trump Lawyers: He’s Immune To Groping Lawsuit

Politico reports:

Advancing a sweeping claim of presidential immunity, President Donald Trump’s lawyers have formally asked to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former “Apprentice” contestant who says he groped her a decade ago.

Trump’s assertion that a sitting president cannot be sued in a state court was contained in a court filing submitted to a Manhattan judge by Marc Kasowitz, the same private attorney heading up the president’s defense in ongoing investigations into alleged ties between Russia and the Trump campaign during last year’s presidential race.

Kasowitz’s motion adopts some of Trump’s forceful rhetorical response to the Russia probe, dismissing the lawsuit from former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos as “a private witch-hunt” aimed at doing political damage to the president and providing fodder for potential impeachment proceedings.