唐纳德·特朗普的律师吉姆·特拉斯迪周日表示，他预计纽约市的法律团队将代表前总统试图驳回他最近的起诉关于封口费的付款。
“我认为会有一些非常合适的动议驳回这种(曼哈顿地区检察官)阿尔文·布拉格试图拼凑的精神体操起诉书的法律漏洞，”特拉斯迪告诉美国广播公司“本周”联合主播乔纳森·卡尔。
在特朗普在社交媒体上声称邻近的斯塔滕岛将是“非常公平和安全的审判地点”后，卡尔被问及是否也期待请求改变审判地点的动议时，Trusty表示，寻求驳回此案是优先事项。
“我认为驳回动议必须优先考虑，因为他们在早期就切断了这种误判，”Trusty说。
他说，“非常有力”的动议可能涉及的问题包括诉讼时效、联邦选举法在州指控中的“自举”等。
他说，他预计在下一次开庭日期“可能比12月早得多”看到这样的动议。
“我们对它的长期发展很有信心，”他说。
特朗普面临34项伪造商业记录的重罪涉及在2016年大选前付钱给成人电影明星斯托米·丹尼尔斯阻止她公开声称自己有外遇，而他说这是假的。检察官指控，这笔钱是提高特朗普选举机会的“计划”的一部分，然后他试图掩盖它。
特朗普在周二的传讯中否认有罪，并强烈否认有不当行为，声称自己受到迫害。
Trusty在“本周”节目中重复了这一点
“总统显然是一个非常有韧性的家伙。他对这种成为目标的情况感到不安，这才是关键。...“对这个国家来说，这是一个糟糕的时刻，”Trusty说，称布拉格的案件是“一份起诉书的腐臭火腿三明治”
鉴于特朗普对马桑和马桑家人的嘲笑，卡尔要求Trusty对法官胡安·马桑发表自己的意见。Trusty说他不想“在批评的时候跟风”
然而，他坚持认为，特朗普周二在他的Mar-a-Lago俱乐部发表演讲时，他是在指出他们的个人偏见，而不是对他们进行人身攻击。
卡尔质疑Trusty特朗普对布拉格的攻击是否明智。“我在合法的车道上。我不会太担心，也不会试图控制当前的政治，”他说。
但他将布拉格描绘成一名党派检察官，他“竞选公职时表示自己是干掉唐纳德·特朗普的最佳人选。”(在被选为地区检察官之前，布拉格吹嘘他过去在法庭上反对特朗普的经历，并说特朗普应该被“追究责任”，但他会去“事实带我去的任何地方”。)
Trusty在“本周”节目中说:“无论你的政治背景如何，我们都不应该让刑事司法系统从针对人们的指控开始，因为如果你这样做，你最终会提出这样的指控。”
美国前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)在计划出庭的当天离开特朗普大厦，此前他被曼哈顿大陪审团起诉，此前曼哈顿大陪审团调查了封口费向色情明星支付的费用...显示更多undefined
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特朗普关于布拉格和其他人的评论促使Merchan，他自己也面临威胁，以警告特朗普上周在法庭上注意言辞。Merchan有能力对特朗普发布禁言令，但他表示，他不愿意采取这样一个全面的举措-目前。
卡尔还问Trusty关于司法部特别顾问的调查特朗普卸任后对机密文件的处理。
Trusty是在该案中代表前总统的律师之一，他向Karl保证，前总统现在不再拥有这些文件，并一直在努力配合政府夺回敏感材料的努力。
根据法庭记录，特朗普此前拒绝归还这些文件，导致联邦调查局去年对Mar-a-Lago进行了搜查。
Trusty周日表示:“没有与遵守传票相关的悬而未决的问题。”“每一步，如果我们发现任何感兴趣的东西，即使它可能不是机密，我们也会把它翻过来。”
“那么，他的位置上不再有机密文件了?都被翻了?”卡尔跟进。
“正确，”Trusty说。“在法庭诉讼和排除是否存在证据的问题上，我们做了正确的事情。它也显示没有任何阻碍。所以，我认为如果事实真相大白，我们的处境会很好。”
Trump's legal priority will be seeking to dismiss his indictment, his attorney says
Donald Trump's attorney Jim Trusty said Sunday he expects the legal team representing the former president in New York Cityto seek to dismiss his recent indictmentover hush money payments.
"I think there's going to be some very well-placed motions to dismiss based on the legal frailties of this kind of, you know, mental gymnastics indictment that [Manhattan District Attorney] Alvin Bragg is trying to piece together," Trusty told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
Pressed by Karl on whether to also expect motions to request a change of venue following Trump claiming on social media that neighboring Staten Island would be a "very fair and secure location for the trial," Trusty said seeking to dismiss the case takes precedence.
"I think the motions to dismiss have to be a priority because they amputate this miscarriage of justice early on," Trusty said.
The "very robust" motions could be on issues that include the statute of limitations, the "bootstrapping" of federal election law in state charges and more, he said.
He said he expected to see such motions "probably much earlier than December," the next court date.
"We have a lot of confidence about how it plays out in the long run," he said.
Trump faces34 felony counts of falsifying business recordsrelated topaying adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 electionto keep her from going public with a claim of an affair he says is false. That money was part of a "scheme" to bolster Trump's election chances and he then sought to cover it up, prosecutors allege.
Trump pleaded not guilty at an arraignment Tuesday and has vehemently denied wrongdoing, claiming he's being persecuted.
Trusty echoed that on "This Week."
"The president is obviously a very resilient guy. He's upset by this situation in terms of being targeted and that's really the key. ... This is a bad moment for this country," Trusty said, calling Bragg's case a "rancid ham sandwich of an indictment."
Karl pushed for Trusty's own opinion on Judge Juan Merchan, in light of Trump's derisive comments about Merchan and Merchan's family. Trusty said he didn't want to "jump onto any bandwagon when it comes to criticizing."
However, he insisted that with Merchan's family, Trump was pointing out their personal bias rather than personally attacking them when he singled them out in a speech at his Mar-a-Lago Club on Tuesday.
Karl challenged Trusty on whether Trump's attacks on Bragg were wise. "I'm in the legal lane. I'm not going to worry too much or be able to try to control the politics of the moment," he said.
But he painted Bragg as a partisan prosecutor who "ran for office saying he's the best guy to take out Donald Trump." (Before being elected as district attorney, Bragg touted his past experience in court against Trump and said Trump should be held "accountable" but that he would go "wherever the facts take me.")
"No matter what your political stripes, we should not have the criminal justice system that starts off with targeting people to find some sort of charge, because if you do, you end up coming up with tread bare charges like this," Trusty said on "This Week."
Trump's comments about Bragg and others prompted Merchan,who has faced threats of his own, to warn Trump in court last week to watch his words. Merchan has the ability to issue a gag order on Trump but said he was reluctant to take such a sweeping move -- for now.
Karl also asked Trusty aboutthe Department of Justice special counsel's investigationinto Trump's handling of classified documents after he left office.
Trusty, one of the lawyers representing the former president in that case, assured Karl that the former president now no longer has such documents in his possession and has been seeking to be in compliance with the government's efforts to retake the sensitive material.
According to court records, Trump previously resisted returning the documents, leading to an FBI search of Mar-a-Lago last year.
"There's no outstanding issue related to compliance with the subpoena," Trusty said on Sunday. "Every step of the way, if we found anything of interest, even if it's probably not classified, we'd turn it over."
"So, no more classified documents in his position? They've all been turned over?" Karl followed up.
"Correct," Trusty said. "We've done what's right when it comes to the court proceedings and to knocking out the issue of whether there's anything standing. And it also shows there's no obstruction going on. So, I think we're in a good place if the facts actually come out."
