Manhattan DA and state AG say Trump’s criminal and civil cases in New York should not be dismissed because he’s president
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(CNN) — The New York attorney general and the Manhattan district attorney both said Tuesday they will not dismiss their historic cases against Donald Trump now that he’s been reelected president.Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, argued in a filing made public Tuesday that Trump’s May conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records should not be dismissed just because he’s returning to the White House. The district attorney also said it’s possible for the judge to delay sentencing until after Trump is out of office or to impose a sentence without jail time.“President-elect immunity does not exist,” the DA’s office wrote, adding that even when Trump is president, dismissing the conviction and the indictment would be an “extreme remedy” that is unwarranted.And the New York attorney general’s office wrote in a letter to Trump’s attorneys Tuesday that Trump’s appeal of his $454 million civil fraud judgment poses no burden to his future presidency.Trump was already seeking to dismiss both the felony hush money conviction and the civil fraud judgment before the November election, but now that he’s returning to the White House, his lawyers are arguing the civil and criminal verdicts should both be dropped.Both fights over...
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