special: Trump officials told Fox News Digital that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case is “effectively over” after Bragg requested a stay until 2029, calling the development a “huge victory” for President-elect Donald Trump. celebrated as
Bragg on Tuesday requested a stay in New York v. Trump until 2029, as the president’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the case entirely.
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New York prosecutors said Tuesday that, although they are likely to oppose the argument, they are open to briefing Trump’s defense attorneys on the full dismissal of the case.
“Prosecutors are trying to save face,” a Trump official told Fox News Digital. “They know this case will be over soon.”
President-elect Donald Trump looks on during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zofa LLC)
Another official told Fox News Digital that the “fallback” from New York prosecutors is a “five-year delay.”
“No serious person believes this case will stand up to that,” the official said.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung also told Fox News Digital that Bragg’s request to stay “is a complete and unequivocal victory for President Trump and the American people who overwhelmingly elected him.”
“The Manhattan DA has recognized that this witch hunt cannot continue,” Cheung, who was tapped to serve as White House communications director, said. “The impeachment case has now been put on hold, and President Trump’s legal team is moving to dismiss it once and for all.”
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Sources close to Trump and his legal team told Fox News Digital that Bragg’s move “represents a complete failure of prosecution.”
“Their case is in limbo and now everyone knows it’s headed for the ash heap of history,” the source told Fox News Digital. “This thing isn’t coming back in five years — nobody’s going to argue that.”
Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree stemming from a years-long investigation into alleged hush money payments conducted by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Former Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance launched an investigation and Bragg prosecuted the president-elect.
After an unprecedented six-week trial in New York City, a jury found the president guilty on all counts.
Judge Joan Murchin last week blocked all deadlines related to sentencing proceedings against Trump in the final weeks before he is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, on Nov. 26. The date of conviction is also included.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg stands with members of his staff at a news conference following the sentencing of former U.S. President Donald Trump in his hush money trial on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Getty Images)
But Trump’s lawyers have requested that Murchan overturn the criminal conviction entirely, citing the United States Supreme Court’s ruling that former presidents enjoy substantial immunity from prosecution for official acts in office. .
Trump’s legal team argued that some of the evidence presented by Bragg and New York prosecutors during the trial should not have been admitted, because they were “official acts.”
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Specifically, Trump’s attorney Todd Blanch, who was nominated by the president to serve as deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice, argued that the testimony of former White House communications director Hope Hicks; former Special Assistant to the President Madeleine Westerhout; testimony regarding the Office of the Special Counsel and Congress’ investigative and impunity powers; Testimony Regarding President Trump’s Response to FEC Inquiries; His presidential Twitter posts and other relevant testimony were admitted as inadmissible during the trial.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump gives brief remarks with his attorney Todd Blanch after the conclusion of his hush money trial in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Trump’s lawyers also pointed to Trump’s disclosures to the Office of Official Ethics as president.
Blanchet said the “government acts evidence” that Bragg presented to the grand jury “violates the holding in Trump because presidents cannot be indicted based on conduct for which they are impeached.” are safe,” the movement read. “The doctrine of presidential immunity recognized in Trump applies to all “criminal proceedings,” including grand jury proceedings when a prosecutor uses evidence of official acts to “attempt to indict” a former president. “
Blanche argued that Bragg “violated the doctrine of presidential immunity by using the same official evidence in the grand jury proceedings that gave rise to the politically motivated charges in this case.”
“Since an indictment cannot be so tainted, the charges must be dismissed,” argued Blanche.
Blanche also explained that the Supreme Court’s decision does not allow “overwhelming evidence” or “harmless error” to “impose deeply entrenched institutional interests.”
Judge Joan M. Murchin poses in her chambers on March 14, 2024 in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision on presidential immunity came from a question of whether to overturn a separate, federal lawsuit brought by special counsel Jack Smith against Trump related to the events of January 6, 2021. was born out of any alleged efforts. 2020 Election Results
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges in the case.
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Smith is dropping her cases against Trump after his election as the 47th president of the United States.
Smith’s secret records case against Trump was dismissed earlier this year by a federal judge in Florida, who ruled that the appointment of the special counsel was illegal.
Murchan has not yet ruled on the immunity argument, which prosecutors expect to include in an upcoming motion to dismiss from the defense.
