Former President Trump said Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling prompted a “high-level SPANK!” to Special Counsel Jack Smith, whose independent investigation of the former president led to two criminal charges against him.
“A very bad day for Deranged Jack Smith, the crazy prosecutor used for Crooked Joe Biden’s attack on his political opponent,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
“Today, as in the past, the Supreme Court gave the Madman a top-notch SPANKING!” he added.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued a 6-3 ruling that certain presidents have absolute immunity for actions that fall within the essential responsibilities of their office and are “at least presumptively immune” for all other official acts.
The decision marks a significant victory for the presumptive Republican Party nominee, whose federal election subversion case is unlikely to be heard before the November elections. The case will return to the district court to determine whether the former president’s efforts to remain in power after losing 2020 election protections warrant protection.
Trump said Smith’s bosses at the Department of Justice (DOJ), including Attorney General Merrick Garland, “must be furious with him.” He then scorned Garland, saying that his “once great reputation has been destroyed by these thugs.”
The former president also suggested that DOJ officials drop the case against him.
“Garland should put an end to this never-ending HOAX and let people focus on bringing back Greatness to America!” he wrote in Truth Social.
Minutes after the high court handed down its decision, Trump announced the decision as a “great victory” for democracy.
Trump, in an unrelated criminal case in New York, was found guilty in late May of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records with the intent to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election when he reimbursed his then-fixer, Michael Cohen, for a secret cash payment. to an adult film star who claimed to have had an affair with Trump. The former president denied the accusation and promised to appeal the conviction.
Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11, but on Monday, Trump’s legal team launched a new effort aimed at overturning the jury’s guilty verdict. His lawyers wrote to the New York judge and asked him to overturn the conviction, claiming that the prosecution at trial presented evidence that is protected by the Supreme Court’s new test, and requested that the sentencing be delayed.
The judge rejected Trump’s presidential immunity defense as untimely, allowing the case to go to a jury, which ultimately handed down the first criminal conviction of a former US president.
The July 11 date is just four days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump is expected to be selected as the official GOP nominee for president.
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