Ten months before Donald Trump is scheduled to stand trial in his historic New York City criminal case, Manhattan prosecutors are turning the former president's words against him in a tug of war over precisely where he will be tried.
Trump's lawyers have spent weeks angling to have the hush money case moved to federal court. The Manhattan district attorney's office responded Tuesday that the case should remain in the state court where it originated, citing old Trump tweets that they say undermine his lawyers' jurisdictional challenge.
Trump's lawyers argue he can't be tried in state court because some of the alleged conduct occurred in 2017 while he was president, including checks he purportedly wrote while sitting in the Oval Office. They argue the case belongs in federal court because it "involves important federal questions" including alleged violations of federal election law.
Such transfer requests are rarely granted, although Trump's is unprecedented because he's the first ex-president charged with a crime. In the meantime, the case will continue in state court. Trump's charges pertained to efforts "to conceal criminal conduct that largely occurred before his inauguration," Colangelo wrote. That includes alleged violations of New York laws regulating record-keeping at private businesses -- laws that have no federal equivalent, he added.
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