Washington, Dec. 24 (EUROPA PRESS) – Former United States President Donald Trump has defended before a federal appeals court the filing of the accusations against him for an alleged crime of subversion after 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, after a lower court determined that there were no reasons to paralyze the process.
In a brief presented this Saturday, the magnate’s lawyers have stressed that Trump acted as president to “guarantee the integrity of the elections.” “Instead of a prosecutor being able to ask a court to judge the conduct of a president on his behalf, Congress must judge and condemn 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, after 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. The trial is scheduled for March 4.
2023-12-24 20:04:08
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