'President-elect immunity does not exist': NYC DA rips Trump’s demand to drop case

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg isn’t ready to let Donald Trump off the hook in his fraud case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

Bragg wrote in a filing made public Tuesday that he opposes Trump’s attempt to have the state court ruling “immediately” thrown out based on last month’s presidential election win.

“There are no grounds for such relief now, prior to defendant’s inauguration, because President-elect immunity does not exist,” Bragg’s office wrote in the 82-page filing urging Judge Juan Merchan to reject Trump’s request.

Bragg added that even after Trump is sworn in as president next month, his “temporary immunity as the sitting President will still not justify the extreme remedy of discarding the jury’s unanimous guilty verdict and wiping out the already-completed phases of this criminal proceeding.”

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The 34 felonies that Trump was convicted of, Bragg noted in the filing, “involved purely unofficial conduct, not any official presidential acts.”

Trump cited “a long list of complaints against various actors in the legal system and said dismissal is required due to presidential immunity, federal law regarding the presidential transition, and the Constitution’s supremacy clause,” MSNBC reported.

But Bragg wrote that the incoming president’s requested relief “would go well beyond what is necessary to protect the presidency and would subvert the compelling public interest in preserving the jury’s unanimous verdict and upholding the rule of law.”

Trump was convicted by a New York jury in May on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to Daniels.