Trump Lawyer Claims Fake Electors Were “Official Act”

Newsweek reports:

Speaking to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Monday night, Will Scharf, an attorney for the former president, laid out the next steps for special counsel Jack Smith’s case following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that former presidents have absolute immunity for their official acts but no immunity for private acts.

“We’ve admitted consistently that there are acts alleged in the indictment that would constitute private conduct but we believe that if the official conduct, the immune acts in the indictment are stripped away, that Jack Smith doesn’t have a case, that this case should be dismissed on that basis,” he said.

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Scharf: We believe the assembly of those alternate slates of electors was an official act of the presidency. pic.twitter.com/JNczpFCSJZ

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