Trump’s Defense Requests Dismissal of Classified Documents Case, Citing Presidential Immunity: Update on Legal Battles and Controversy

Trump’s defense requested to dismiss the classified documents case, arguing presidential immunity. (REUTERS/Seth Herald)

The defense of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) requested this Thursday that the case of the classified documents he faces in Florida be dismissed, ensuring that the former president is protected by presidential immunity.

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In a motion filed this Thursday in the court for the southern district of Florida, the Republican’s lawyers pointed out that Trump’s decision to declassify several confidential documents and take them to his Mar-a-Lago residence was made while he was still president, therefore that cannot be processed.

The crisis of presidential immunity has become an obstacle in the different cases that the US Department of Justice has open against Trump, and especially in Washington DC for trying to reverse the 2020 electoral result, when he lost the elections against Joe Biden.

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The trial in DC was scheduled to begin on March 4, but the judge, Tanya Chutkan, decided to delay it pending a possible decision by the US Supreme Court on the validity of the presidential immunity argument.

Last week, the special prosecutor in charge of investigating the former president, Jack Smith, asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the request from Trump’s defense to intervene in the matter.

The Republican’s lawyers pointed out that the former president’s decision to declassify the files and take them to his Mar-a-Lago residence was made while he was still president, so he cannot be prosecuted. (Europa Press)

A DC appeals court already ruled on February 6 that the former president, upon leaving the White House, became just another “citizen,” so he is no longer protected by the immunity he had in office.

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“The DC (appeals) court’s analysis is not persuasive,” Trump’s lawyers said in their motion Thursday, warning the Florida court that it “should not accept that ill-reasoned and non-binding decision.” organ.

The former president faces four criminal cases against him and has indicated that they are all politically motivated for being the “favorite” in the presidential elections next November.

Recently, the former Republican president compared his problems with justice to the persecution of Russian opponent Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic prison under Moscow control.

“It’s a form of Navalny,” Trump said during an interview with Fox News, speaking about the $355 million fine imposed on him by a New York judge during a civil trial in which he was accused of inflating the value of the assets of the Trump Organization.

The former president faces four criminal cases against him and has indicated that they are all politically motivated for being the “favorite” in the presidential elections next November. (EFE/Bendan McDermid)

Judge Arthur Engoron also disqualified him from trading for three years.

“It is a form of communism or fascism. The guy is crazy,” said Trump, who insisted during the interview with Laura Ingraham that the case, like other of his pending accounts with justice, are attacks that seek to undermine his electoral campaign for the White House.

(With information from EFE and AFP)

2024-02-23 11:13:37
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