They also asked a judge to strike any mention of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack from the indictment.
Share on email from federal prosecution because his actions after the 2020 election and on the day of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack were performed within his official role as president.He also did so, it alleges, by organizing a fraudulent slate of electors in several states, trying to pressure former Vice President Pence into altering election results and exploiting Jan. 6 violence to delay certification of the results.
Another filing asks that references to the pro-Trump mob attack on the Capitol be stricken from the indictment because prosecutors did not accuse him of inciting it.They argued that the immunity theory would grant a president protection from criminal prosecution over a wide variety of abuses of power, and they used "a president who sells nuclear secrets to a foreign adversary" as an example.
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