Desperate for delay in New York criminal trial, Trump fires blanks to stop it

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Desperate for delay in New York criminal trial, Trump fires blanks to stop it
The clock is running out on Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case

By DENNIS AFTERGUT - LAURENCE H. TRIBE
PUBLISHED MARCH 14, 2024 5:31AM (EDT)


(Salon) Last week, Donald Trump filed a new motion to delay his Manhattan prosecution for falsifying business records to cover up an election interference scandal before the 2016 election. The new filing is so pathetically weak that NBC Legal Analyst Lisa Rubin called Trump’s new motion the “Hail Mary to end all Hail Mary’s.”

Trump’s desperation to avoid criminal accountability is showing. With the 2024 election looming, he doesn’t want America to know whether 12 ordinary jurors think he committed crimes connected to his 2016 cover up. It’s the crux of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s election interference case.

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First, he doesn’t and can’t make a direct immunity claim like he has in Jack Smith’s January 6 case in DC. In New York, he surrendered that claim last year when he unsuccessfully sought to “remove” the case to New York federal court in an early attempt to delay the prosecution.

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That’s why Trump’s present motion is a bank shot aimed at the same side pocket. Trump’s new motion says that while he may not be immune, any statements that he made while president are “immune” from being used against him – as if presidents are divinely anointed so that every word they utter while in office is surrounded by a halo of untouchability. .........................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/03/14/desperate-for-delay-in-new-york-criminal-trial-blanks-to-stop-it/

[Submariner]

1. One can almost hear the ghost of Roy Cohn

whispering in his ear, "remember what I taught you Honest Don, NEVER admit fault for ANYTHING.....EVER".