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President Donald Trump’s legal team is calling for a reversal in his New York hush money verdict following the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity released on Monday.
Trump’s lawyers reportedly filed a letter asking Judge Juan Merchan to give them until July 10 to file arguments to vacate the verdict that found the 45th president guilty on 34 counts, according to a report by Just the News.
The move came the same day the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 verdict that presidents are granted immunity for official acts while in office. The decision was considered a legal victory for Trump in his ongoing legal battles.
Trump also took to Social Truth to post his reaction to Monday’s historic Supreme Court ruling.
“THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IS A MUCH MORE POWERFUL ONE THAN SOME HAD EXPECTED IT TO BE. IT IS BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN AND WISE, AND CLEARS THE STENCH FROM THE BIDEN TRIALS AND HOAXES, ALL OF THEM, THAT HAVE BEEN USED AS AN UNFAIR ATTACK ON CROOKED JOE BIDEN’S POLITICAL OPPONENT, ME. MANY OF THESE FAKE CASES WILL NOW DISAPPEAR, OR WITHER INTO OBSCURITY. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” he wrote in all caps.
In another post, Trump criticized Special Counsel Jack Smith following the court’s ruling.
“A really bad day for Deranged Jack Smith, the wacko prosecutor used for Crooked Joe Biden’s attack on his Political Opponent. Today, as in the past, the Supreme Court gave the Deranged One a high level SPANKING!” he wrote.
“His ‘real’ bosses, Andrew Weissmann and Lisa Monaco, not to mention Merrick Garland, whose once great reputation has been shattered by these Thugs, and his constant defense of Crooked Joe, must be furious at him. Garland ought to call an end to this never ending HOAX, and let people focus on bringing back Greatness to America!” Trump added.
The Monday ruling specifically allows “absolute immunity” from prosecution for acts while presidents.
The ruling states, “Under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of Presidential power entitles a former President to absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority. And he is entitled to at least presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts. There is no immunity for unofficial acts,” as RSBN previously reported.
The developments come days after Trump decisively won the first presidential debate against President Joe Biden. The debate was watched by 51.3 million viewers and over 30 million views online.