Trump’s attorneys want to throw out hush money verdict based on Supreme Court ruling

Attorneys for Donald Trump have reportedly sent a letter to the judge overseeing his hush money trial in New York in the hopes of delaying his sentencing and blocking his guilty verdict in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that grants him someimmunity from prosecution.

The letter, first reported by The New York Times, arrived shortly after a ruling from the nation’s high court that shields Trump and any other president from criminal prosecution for actions considered “official” duties while in office.

“No comment. And there is nothing public yet to share,” Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche told The Independent on Monday.

Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a scheme to influence the 2016 presidential election by paying hush money to an adult film star whose story about having sex with Trump threatened to derail his campaign.

A letter from Trump’s attorneys reportedly asks Justice Juan Merchan judge for permission to begin filing a motion to set that verdict aside.

Earlier, on his Truth Social, Trump claimed that the Supreme Court’s decision “should end all of Crooked Joe Biden’s Witch Hunts against me,” including “the New York Hoaxes” – his hush money case,the civil fraud judgment that has him on the hook for nearly half a billion dollars, and jury’s verdict in a federal defamation trial.

Judge Merchan is scheduled to sentence Trump on July 11.

Trump wasconvicted on May 30 on all 34 counts against him after jurors deliberated for roughly two days.

Nothing in the indictment against him or the case presented by prosecutors include actions involving the presidency, other than Trump’s signature on checks to his then-attorney Michael Cohen that reimbursed him for payments to