2023-12-26 06:45:08
Former President of the United States Donald Trump has defended before a federal appeals court the filing of the accusations once morest him for an alleged crime of subversion following the 2020 elections, in which he denounced fraud, alleging that at that time he enjoyed “absolute immunity.” and that he had always acted within the powers conferred on him by the presidential office.
This is what Trump has stated in a new appeal with which he hopes that a second court determines that it is inviolable in the investigation launched by special prosecutor Jack Smith, following a lower court determined that there were no reasons to paralyze the process.
In a brief presented on Saturday, the magnate’s lawyers have stressed that Trump acted as president to “guarantee the integrity of the elections.” “Before a prosecutor can ask a court to judge the conduct of a president on his own, Congress must try and convict him,” they alleged, according to the letter collected by CNN.
The appeals court plans to host the hearing on January 9 for each of the parties to present these arguments, following the Supreme Court refused to rule ahead of time on the degree of immunity that Trump had when he allegedly committed the crimes that are now being committed. they attribute to him. It was US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who will preside over Trump’s trial scheduled for March 4 for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting the former president’s claim of immunity on December 1.
For its part, Trump’s defense has persistently sought to delay this trial until following the November 2024 elections with the argument that the former president enjoys “absolute immunity” and cannot be prosecuted for his decisions while he was in the White House. .
The 77-year-old Republican and favorite for the Republican presidential nomination, was accused in August of trying to alter the results of the November 2020 election, which Democrat Joe Biden won, in a coordinated effort that led to the riot by part of his followers on January 6, 2021 once morest the Capitol.
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