Trump Seeks Dismissal Of NY Hush Money Charges

The Washington Post reports:

Donald Trump’s legal team has formally asked a judge to toss out the former president’s hush money conviction and the indictment that led to his trial, saying last week’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity means some of the evidence prosecutors used should not have been allowed.

In a motion made public on Thursday, Trump’s lawyers cited testimony by former White House communications director Hope Hicks about her conversations with Trump when he was president, as well as messages that Trump posted on his Twitter account, which he used to communicate with the public during his term.

Both, they argued, should have been considered official presidential acts, and therefore excluded from the grand jury process and the trial. “The jury’s verdicts cannot stand,” lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove wrote.

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