Scandal-ridden former President Donald Trump and his team of attorneys have come up with the most outlandish excuse yet for his criminal actions in the state of Georgia — no one told him it was illegal to try to overthrow a literal presidential election.
Trump’s legal team submitted a monsoon of court filings in the Fulton County Superior Court today, all of which argue in some way or another that the damning election interference case against the ex-president in the state of Georgia, spearheaded by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, “consists entirely of core political speech at the zenith of First Amendment protections.”
As part of their defense argument for the disgraced former president, Donald’s attorneys now claim that Trump did not have “fair notice” that his actions and attempts to overthrow and reverse his loss in the state of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election were against the law and could result in criminal charges being lodged against him.
He is quite literally attempting to claim that he, as a United States president, did not know that it was illegal to try to overthrow the results of a presidential election.
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“Our country has a longstanding tradition of forceful political advocacy regarding widespread allegations of fraud and irregularities in a long list of presidential elections throughout our history, therefore, President Trump lacked fair notice that his advocacy in the instance of the 2020 presidential election could be criminalized,” Trump’s legal team claimed in the court filing this morning.
This filing and its included hair-brained claims and excuses comes just one day before Donald Trump is slated to appear in a Washington D.C. appeals court, where he and his attorneys will argue that the entire election interference case against him should be dismissed on the grounds of “presidential immunity,” related to actions he committed while in office. He further claims that he was already tried and acquitted on similar charges throughout the process of his second impeachment.
Former President Trump is just one of more than a dozen co-defendants in the state of Georgia — including the likes of his former personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — all of whom are accused of making up a “criminal enterprise” using “fake electors” and pressuring state officials and election workers to overthrow Donald’s loss in the Peach State.
Thus far, four of Trump’s original co-defendants have already taken plea deals in this case.
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