Trump asks Manhattan hush money judge to revisit guilty verdict after Supreme Court’s immunity ruling

to throw out his guilty verdict in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that granted him absolute immunity for official acts committed as president.

The letter is expected to be made public on Tuesday, after which Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office will be given a chance to respond. , came 10 days before Trump is expected to be sentenced in the case where he was convicted by a jury of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records during his 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to keep an alleged sexual encounter with porn star Stormy Daniels out of the public sphere.

in previous court filings that his social media posts about former fixer Michael Cohen — a key witness for the prosecution – came from his time in the White House and should have been excluded from the trial because of presidential immunity. “The man who sent that mob to the US Capitol is facing potential criminal conviction for what happened that day and the American people deserve to have an answer in the courts before the upcoming election,” the 81-year-old president said in remarks from the White House Monday.

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