Trump hush-money prosecutors say conviction must stand despite immunity ruling

Source: The Guardian

Thu 25 Jul 2024 16.05 EDT


The Manhattan prosecutors who secured Donald Trump’s historic criminal conviction disputed the former US president’s claim that the verdict should be set aside in the wake of a US supreme court ruling on presidential immunity.

In a court filing dated July 24 and made public on Thursday, the prosecutors said the supreme court’s ruling had no bearing on their case, which stemmed from hush money paid to a porn star.

“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,” prosecutors with Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s office wrote.

Trump, the Republican nominee in the 5 November election, was convicted on 30 May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels for her silence before the 2016 election about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

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