Since Trump’s criminal trials are already ongoing, politically, he needs to use this appeal to avoid convictions now, though. Many polls have said that a lot of people wouldn’t vote for him if he’s convicted. I suspect some percentage of those people were telling the truth.
He’s stalling the cases to use a much more conventional political vehicle for getting himself off the hook - presidential pardons. The immunity claim is a hail-mary stall tactic and Trump’s team knows that it’s bogus, but they also know he doesn’t need absolute immunity if he can just survive until November.
I thought they were stalling the cases with the hope that he would get elected. THEN the absolute power will start.
Since Trump’s criminal trials are already ongoing, politically, he needs to use this appeal to avoid convictions now, though. Many polls have said that a lot of people wouldn’t vote for him if he’s convicted. I suspect some percentage of those people were telling the truth.
He’s stalling the cases to use a much more conventional political vehicle for getting himself off the hook - presidential pardons. The immunity claim is a hail-mary stall tactic and Trump’s team knows that it’s bogus, but they also know he doesn’t need absolute immunity if he can just survive until November.