Today, former President Donald Trump proved his idiocy beyond a shadow of a doubt when he argued that he enjoys “absolute immunity” from a lawsuit filed against him by Democratic House Representative Eric Swalwell over Donald’s incitement of the January 6th Capitol riot.
Trump’s claim came in a 49-page court filing, in which he called on a federal judge to dismiss Swalwell’s lawsuit, hailing from March, claiming that the court shouldn’t be allowed to rule on any of his comments made on the heels of and running up to his supporters attacking the Capitol building as Congress was trying to certify the Electoral College votes, because he was still president at the time, making the statements out of the court’s reach.
The former president’s filing to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. reads, “The president’s absolute immunity forecloses the jurisdiction of this court.”
Swalwell’s lawsuit against Donald Trump accuses the former president as well as his son Donald Trump Jr., his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and Republican Rep. Mo Brooks of inciting the violent insurrection at the Capitol building earlier this year, with the specific intent of preventing Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote results that officially made Joe Biden the next President of the United States.
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Of course, Trump’s lies about the results of the election have been downright endless, since Election day in November. But every attempt on his part to somehow change the rock-solid results has fallen flat.
More than 60 lawsuits were filed on Trump’s part to somehow sway the votes were all unsuccessful and failed in his attempts to install a panel of “alternate” electors that would put him back in the White House despite the votes.
In his court filing yesterday, the ex-president argued that his behavior and rhetoric following the election was “hardly unique” when compared to past disputes over presidential election results.
“While holding that office, former President Trump was free to advocate for the appointment and certification of electors,” Trump’s court filing reads, “just as he was entitled to advocate for the passage or defeat of a constitutional amendment, or the reconsideration of a congressional act over his veto even though the President does not directly participate in those congressional acts.”
His filing goes on to argue that the charges made against his son, Don Jr., should be dropped and claims that Swalwell has no legal rights to sue and Trump’s rhetoric was covered under protected speech.
Each defendant included in Swalwell’s lawsuit was present at the rally that was held literally immediately before the Capitol was stormed, and each one of them spoke and riled up the crowd of soon-to-be insurrectionists at the event. The lawsuit marks the January 6th rally as the culmination of a month’s long lie on the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election and claims that the presidency was stolen from Trump.
Swalwell’s suit reads, “The horrific events of January 6 were a direct and foreseeable consequence of the Defendants’ unlawful actions. As such, the Defendants are responsible for the injury and destruction that followed.”
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