Hush Money Tweets: Trump’s Lawyers Argue Presidential Immunity

Trump’s legal squad is making a unexpected move in the hush money case.

They’re claiming that the tweets prosecutors used against him in the hush money trial should’ve been shielded by immunity.

Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche stated that the Supreme Court recognizes that a president’s tweets are protected.

Why?

Because they are part of his official duty to weigh in on public matters.

Conclusion: Trump’s Twitter rants should be untouchable.

How will the dems try to worm out of this one?

Washington Examiner reports:

President Donald Trump‘s lawyers say the tweets prosecutors cited as evidence during his criminal hush money trial were covered by immunity protections, one of several points say should reverse his conviction.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued that the Manhattan district attorney’s efforts to “rebut any presumptive immunity are deeply flawed,” arguing that the Supreme Court has recognized that a president’s posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, are “pursuant to his official authority to comment on matters of public concern.”

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, claims his team of prosecutors did not violate the presidential immunity doctrine by offering as evidence tweets Trump made during his four years as president. That’s because prosecutors believe they “admitted nothing more than the ‘public record’ of those Tweets,” Blanche explained in a reply motion to presiding Judge Juan Merchan.

“Were that the case, the Supreme Court would not have devoted an entire subsection of Trump to analyzing public statements (including Tweets), invoked the Presidential ‘bully pulpit,’ and referenced a President’s ‘extraordinary power to speak to his fellow citizens and on their behalf,’” Blanche added.

Blanche suggested at least two out of a group of five “Tweets specifically referenced ongoing investigations and therefore did, in fact, relate to the President’s core official duties.”

“These Tweets touched on ‘[i]nvestigative and prosecutorial decisionmaking,’ which is the ‘special province’ of the President,” the defense’s reply added.

The tweets Trump’s team objects to spanned from April 21 to Aug. 22, 2018, and chart a pivotal time when the key witness in the hush money trial, Trump’s former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen, was being investigated by Congress over the alleged $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, the issue at the heart of the criminal trial.

It will be interesting to see how this immunity card plays out against previous presidents:

Joe Biden is very, very lucky that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Trump on Presidential Immunity 😳

Have a listen to what could have happened had they ruled differently 👇🏻😲

Would you sue the hell out of him, had they ruled differently? 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/UUnXZnJTjN

— Todd With Trump (@THeinrich22) July 2, 2024