Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed multiple motions Thursday night urging a Florida judge to dismiss the criminal case charging him with illegally retaining classified documents, claiming in part that presidential immunity protects him from prosecution — an argument they have already submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in his election interference case.
Lawyers Christopher Kise and Todd Blanche wrote that the charges “turn on his alleged decision to designate records as personal under the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and to cause the records to be moved from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.” Since Trump made this decision while he was still in office, they wrote, it “was an official act, and as such is subject to presidential immunity.”
Was it? Sounds like some sovcit bullshit. Archivists pulled his notes from a trashbin to unwrap, glue together and ID them all while he was in the office. A habit very common in career thugs wanting to leave no paper trace. I doubt that there’s some way to personalize records that not even his to begin with. He’s that one employee who, on justified firing, takes as much office property as he can.