'Trump has no new arguments': Ex-president skewered for last-minute immunity filing
Donald Trump late on Tuesday night filed a reply brief to an appeals court defending his claim for presidential immunity, but one legal expert said the former president has "no new arguments."
Trump, who is responding to Special Counsel Jack Smith's briefing in which the prosecutor challenged Trump's key assertions, has continued to insist that he deserves immunity for his actions allegedly attempting to overturn the 2020 election. In fact, he has argued that it was his duty to "investigate" the supposedly rigged 2020 election.
He filed the brief within a couple of hours of the deadline.
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Former Mueller investigation prosecutor Andrew Weissmann posted the 41-page brief on social media"'President Trump has immunity from prosecution for his official acts," Trump's lawyers wrote in the filing. "Under our system of separated powers, the Executive Power is exclusively vester in the President."
But legal analyst Allison Gill wasn't impressed.
"Trump has no new arguments. It also seems that he doesn’t address any of the amicus briefs," Gill wrote on Tuesday.