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43% : But prosecutors and Trump's defense attorneys jointly asked the judge for a stay of current deadlines -- which includes the ruling on immunity -- after Trump won the 2024 presidential election last week, according to an email chain with the court made public Tuesday.
39% : But when the Supreme Court issued its bombshell ruling in July, finding that former presidents have absolute immunity for official acts in office, Trump claimed that certain evidence from the trial should have been withheld from the jury and its verdict vacated.
32% : Trump claimed that the presidential immunity ruling "specifically forbids prosecutors from offering 'testimony' from a president's 'advisers' for the purpose of 'probing a federal act.'
31% : As for this state case, the immunity issue has already won Trump two delays of his planned sentencing.
28% : Trump said that Manhattan prosecutors violated the High Court's new precedent by presenting evidence at trial from his official acts as president.
22% : "Trump's election win has already blown up the federal cases against him; federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice are in talks to wind down their efforts to hold Trump accountable for the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol and supposed mishandling of federal documents at Mar-a-Lago.
21% : NY Judge Merchan was supposed to issue ruling on Tuesday, but agreed to delay it after Trump won presidential electionA New York judge on Tuesday delayed his impending ruling on whether President-elect Donald Trump's Manhattan criminal conviction should stand after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling for broad presidential immunity.
20% : In May, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, which were part of a broader scheme from Trump to nullify bad press related to his 2016 presidential campaign by paying hush money to a porn star he had sex with a decade earlier.
14% : "No president of the United States has ever been treated as unfairly and unlawfully as District Attorney Bragg has acted toward President Trump in connection with the biased investigation, extraordinarily delayed charging decision, and baseless prosecution that give rise to this motion," Trump argued in a court filing from July 11.

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