U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Missouri, is not worried about President-Elect Donald Trump’s felony conviction in New York earlier this year over hush money paid to a porn star. He told Missourinet the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity should exempt Trump.
“They said, essentially, you can’t use as evidence official communications, you know, with the immunity, presidential immunity, that the New York case is already on appeal, so I think that was falling apart,” Schmitt said. “All these cases which were political in nature have been unraveling anyway for months.”
Meanwhile, the New York judge that oversaw Trump’s criminal trial decided Tuesday to postpone his decision for one week on whether to overturn Trump’s conviction.
Democrats have argued that the former president’s actions to pay hush money to quash negative news coverage were not official acts and that he was rightly convicted. Schmitt disagreed.
“All these, these political tactics, this lawfare, the attempts to jail…President Trump, the attempts to bankrupt President Trump – the American people saw right through it, and I do think it’s part of one of the reasons why he won,” he said. “The American people don’t want this to be a banana republic. They don’t want a situation where you’re, you’re trying to jail political opponents.”
If Trump’s conviction is not dismissed, he’s scheduled to be sentenced November 26th on 34 counts of falsifying business records. He could get up to four years in prison.
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