Trump's gambit to declare immunity in classified documents case is doomed: experts
Raw StoryFormer President Donald Trump is hoping to leverage the Supreme Court's recent ruling that he has a presumption of immunity for official acts to not only block the federal election conspiracy case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, but also the classified documents case in South Florida. But that is doomed to fail, wrote former White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen, former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore and former Senate Judiciary Committee counsel Josh Kolb in a joint article for CNN. While there are some complicated legal and evidentiary issues related to classified information that led Judge Aileen Cannon to postpone the trial in May, the alleged criminal activity is straightforward and this fact is not in dispute: Trump possessed classified documents after he left office." Read also: Judge Cannon hits Trump with major loss in classified docs case In particular, Trump's theory rests on the Supreme Court's decision to exclude evidence of official conduct from any trial that seeks to prosecute a president for unofficial acts.