On Wednesday, Trump’s NY hush-money judge rejected as too little, too late, his claim of ‚presidential immunity.‘
Trump had claimed statements he made about Stormy Daniels were covered by ‚presidential immunity.‘
On Wednesday, his hush money judge disagreed.
The ruling lets prosecutors share the statements with jurors and rejects Trump’s last delay bid.
A Manhattan judge on Wednesday rejected a „presidential immunity“ bid by Donald Trump, saying the effort was too little and too late.
Trump had sought to delay his hush money trial and to keep jurors from seeing statements he made while president about the $130,000 payment that silenced porn actor Stormy Daniels just 11 days before the 2016 election.
The GOP frontrunner had hoped to delay the hush money trial until after the US Supreme Court decides on whether presidential immunity protects him in his federal election interference case; oral arguments in that case are set for April 25.
But Trump failed to explain why he waited until early last month to raise presidential immunity in a pre-trial motion in his hush money case, according to Wednesday’s ruling by state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan.
State law generally requires pre-trial motions be filed within 45 days after arraignment, Merchan noted, calling Trump’s excuses for the late motion „inadequate and not convincing.“
Trump had blamed the timing of his motion on prosecutors, and on the US Supreme Court’s February 28 decision to hear his federal presidential immunity claims.
