Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office on Thursday filed its opposition to fat former President Trump’s bid to toss his conviction on 34 counts on falsifying business records to cover up his two minute sexual encounter with pornstar Stormy Daniels, arguing “Defendant failed to preserve any immunity-based objection to most of the evidence that is the subject of his current motion.”
“His arguments are meritless in any event, since the evidence at issue either concerned unofficial conduct that is not subject to any immunity, or is a matter of public record that is not subject to preclusion. And even if some of this evidence were improperly admitted, any error was harmless in light of other overwhelming evidence of defendant’s guilt. Finally, defendant’s unpreserved challenge to the grand jury proceeding is beyond this Court’s review and fails in any event under the highly deferential standard for reviewing such proceedings.” In plainer English this means Trump forfeited his right to assert “presidential immunity” from the charges when he backed out of a pre-trial bid to move the case to federal court because he was an “officer of the United States.”