You know there was a trial, right? With trump having every opportunity to defend himself. The jury weighed the evidence against trump's defense and voted to convict.
The appeal is based on trump claiming the case should be retroactively moved to a federal court based on the allowance that federal officers can request a trial in one. But he wasn't a federal officer when he committed the crimes he was convicted for. So the appeal is based on a long shot loophole, not his innocence.
BTW, do you know who Ed Martin is?
Two of the people familiar with the matter said that the new subpoenas were part of a broader investigation to determine whether the office had violated the rights of Mr. Trump or others. It is a highly unusual use of a civil rights law more typically used to investigate potential racial, religious or sex discrimination, among other categories.
On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi also appointed Ed Martin — the far-right former interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C. — as a special prosecutor to supervise an ongoing investigation into Ms. James’s real estate dealings, according to two people briefed on the move.
Ms. James’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, on Friday called the investigation related to the fraud case against Mr. Trump “the most blatant and desperate example of this administration carrying out the president’s political retribution campaign.” He added that the appointment of Mr. Martin “makes it crystal clear this is a manufactured investigation to pursue political retribution.”
He's the guy who had his name withdrawn for a confirmation hearing to become a US Attorney because he's so batshyte crazy corrupt even Repub senators, who do just about everything trump tells them to do, would not support him. So Dotard put him in the DoJ.