Fat former President Trump’s lawyers on Monday filed a motion seeking adjournment of his upcoming trial on charges he falsified business records in 2016 and 2017 when he paid off a porn star to stay quiet over their 45 second sexual encounter in 2006, claiming “presidential immunity” for a state-level crime that started before he was even elected under questionable circumstances.

“The Court must preclude the People from offering evidence at trial of President Trump’s official acts as the Commander in Chief, which the People have not yet specified as the existing trial date approaches. However, in motions in limine recently filed on February 22, 2024, the People argued that they should be permitted to offer evidence at trial concerning a fictitious socalled ‘pressure campaign’ by President Trump in 2018 relating to Michael Cohen. Although the People did not describe the evidence they intend to offer in detail, it appears that the evidence includes public statements by President Trump and posts to his official Twitter account, as well as testimony from unspecified witnesses. The People’s recent proffer implicates presidential immunity because President Trump was President of the United States at the time of those actions in 2018.”

“He made at least some of the 2018 statements at issue – and potentially all of them, though it is hard to be sure in light of the People’s vague in limine description – in his official capacity as the nation’s Chief Executive. Moreover, while it is clear that the People intend to offer documents and testimony relating to the period in 2017 when President Trump was in office, they have not provided sufficiently specific notice of the nature and extent of that evidence to allow President Trump or the Court to distinguish between personal and official acts,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.