Sunday, July 28, 2024

NYC DA Filed Scorched Earth Opposition Against Trump


NYC's Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, filed "Scorched Earth Opposition" against Trump in a Motion in the Trump's Criminal Hush Money Case.

In a Case, a New York Jury in May, found Trump Guilty on 34 counts of Falsifying Business Records relating to a Hush Money payment made to Adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 Presidential Election.

Daniels alleged Daniels had a Sexual Encounter with Trump in 2006, which He Denies. Trump has maintained His Innocence and says the Case is Politically Motivated. His Legal Team has Filed to Appeal the Case.

Earlier this month, Trump's Lawyers asked the Judge to throw-out His Conviction based on the New Supreme Court Decision, which ruled that Presidents have broad Immunity for Official Acts.

But the Court then sent the Case back to the Appeals Court to determine what is and isn't Official Acts. It also Ruled that Official Acts, which the Appeal Court will determine, Cannot be used as Evidence if taking a Case against a President for Unofficial Acts.

The Court's Ruling has impacted several Criminal Ccases against Trump, with His Lawyers in New York filing a Motion in the Hush Money Case "saying it was all official presidential conduct. Therefore they urged the presiding Judge Juan Merchan to throw out the case in its entirety."

However, the Prosecution led by Bragg responded by filing a 69-page Motion, calling to Reject the "defendant's belated and unpreserved effort to dismiss the indictment."

Alvin Bragg's Prosecutors Filed the Scorched Earth Opposition: "The Supreme Court said that the President might be above the law for official presidential acts. But virtually nothing Donald Trump did when he was committing the crimes in New York for which he has been convicted, none of it involved official presidential conduct. It was all private, it was all criminal violation of New York State Law, and none of it is impacted by the Supreme Court's pretty horrific new ruling."

This comes as Bragg wrote in the Motion, "For one thing, [Trump] failed to preserve an objection on immunity grounds to most of the evidence that is the subject of his current motion."

The District Attorney added: "And, in any event, all of the evidence that he complains of either concerned wholly unofficial conduct or, at most, official conduct for which any presumption of immunity has been rebutted."

Meanwhile, the Verdict makes Trump the First former President Convicted of Felony Crimes. Trump faces possible Jail time, or seeing a Parole Officer over a set number of times, will be Determined on September 18th.









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