A Pennsylvania state judge ruled Monday that a poll worker can’t sue former Republican President Donald Trump over statements he questioned the 2020 election results while in office, saying those statements are protected by law. presidential immunity. This was reported by the news portal The Hill.
Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas judge Michael Erdros said Trump’s immunity covered a post by the former president on Twitter in which he claimed, without evidence, that there was fraud in the recount of the votes during the elections. 2020 election in Pennsylvania.
“Other legal proceedings may examine the propriety of his statements and actions while he was President and whether, as claimed by the plaintiffs in this and other cases, it was this conduct that posed the real threat to our democracy,” Erdos ruled. “But this case is not the right place to do it. Here, Trump is entitled to presidential immunity“.
James Savage, a supervisor of voting machines in the 2020 Pennsylvania election, filed two lawsuits, which have since been consolidated, alleging that Trump, Rudy Giuliani, two poll watchers and others conspired to defame him. Savage claims that his statements led to him receiving death threats and suffering two heart attacks.
Erdos ruled that Trump has immunity for the tweet and the statements at the state Senate hearing because both statements were made while he was serving as president.. But the lawsuit also contains allegations about a letter Trump wrote to the House committee on January 6 last October, from which Trump is not protected by immunity because it was written after he left office.
Erdos ruled that the above two statements were part of Trump’s official duties, as he was speaking publicly on matters of public concern.
“Here, Trump’s Gettysburg comments and his tweet were public,” Erdos wrote. “In addition, the issue of these statements, statements by third parties and by the President himself about irregularities in the presidential election, which in his face questioned the integrity of the election and whether the now President Joseph Biden had been duly elected, was undoubtedly a matter of great public interest.
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