Former President Donald Trump is hammering claims that he should be immune from being prosecuted in federal court for crimes committed in office because special counsel Jack Smith waited to file charges until his 2024 campaign.

“Why didn’t the Deranged Jack Smith 'Team' file their lawsuit 3 years ago? Because they wanted to file it right in the middle of my campaign, that’s why," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Friday morning. "Now, all of a sudden, they want to RUSH. ELECTION INTERFERENCE!”

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This week, Smith and the Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to weigh in immediately on Trump’s legal team’s agreements that the case regarding his actions on and preceding the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, should be dismissed on presidential immunity grounds.

The nation’s high court agreed to take up Smith’s request, giving Trump a deadline of next week to respond to Smith’s arguments.

A federal court also granted Smith’s expedited appeal in the federal election interference case on Wednesday, after U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled that Trump’s time in the White House does not grant him “the divine right of kings to evade” criminal accountability, confirming the case can’t be thrown out over the charges.

Trump’s lawyers pushed for “presidential immunity” in an attempt to get out of multiple legal battles, including the cases trying to prosecute him from the Capitol riot and a civil lawsuit by writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexual assault. A president has complete immunity from many types of civil lawsuits while in office. However, the Supreme Court case Clinton v. Jones clarified immunity does not apply to unofficial conduct, criminal conduct, and conduct occurring prior to holding office.

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Carroll is seeking $10 million in damages from Trump over comments he made while in office in June 2019 and additional comments made this year, accusing her of lying about him sexually assaulting her in a dressing room of a department store in the 1990s. Trump was found liable in May for another civil lawsuit from Carroll for battery and defamation.

On Wednesday, an appeals court in Manhattan rejected Trump’s immunity claims, upholding a federal judge's decision. Trump’s attorneys said the former president would seek a review from the Supreme Court.