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Trump signals Mar-a-Lago immunity claim despite appeal order

Donald Trump, Aileen Cannon

Left: FILE — Former President Donald Trump speaks at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., June 13, 2023, after pleading not guilty in a Miami courtroom earlier in the day to mishandling classified documents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File). Right: In this image from video provided by the U.S. Senate, Aileen M. Cannon speaks remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight nomination hearing to be U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on July 29, 2020, in Washington. (U.S. Senate via AP).

Despite losing big at the appeals court level, Donald Trump has signaled an intention to press forward with his immunity defense in at least one of the multiple criminal prosecutions facing the former president.

Lawyers for Trump filed a motion to adjourn certain pretrial motion deadlines on Tuesday in the Florida case over the former president’s allegedly wrongful retention of documents in his Mar-a-Lago home. They have asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, to allow Trump, along with co-defendants Waltine Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, to file evidentiary motions within one month of Cannon’s decision on motions to compel discovery currently before her.

Buried within the justification for the request is an indication that Trump will continue to pursue his “immunity” claim, despite having been repeatedly told that the defense doesn’t stand up to legal scrutiny.

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