Democrats bragged about going after Trump before the election and that is exactly what they did. A TDS DA filed an out-of-date unjust lawsuit against Trump before a compliant TDS democrat judge. Only the slowest of legal experts cannot see the unjust bias and perversions of law in thos case.
Monday, March 30, 2026
Erik Uebelacker / October 28, 2025
File - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in New York, Jan. 10, 2025. (Brendan McDermid via AP, Pool)
MANHATTAN (CN) — President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case “should never have seen the inside of a courtroom, let alone resulted in a conviction,” he said in a late-night filing to a mid-level New York appellate court.
In the
111-page filing, Trump outlined his long-awaited arguments to toss his
historic guilty verdict, claiming that the case judge allowed the prosecutors to use insufficient evidence and should have recused himself.
“This is the most politically charged prosecution in our nation’s history,” Trump claims in the filing.
The appeal filed late Monday is rife with claims that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg only brought the case to kneecap Trump’s 2024 presidential bid — claims Trump echoed on the campaign trail and at trial when speaking to news cameras outside of the courtroom.
“The DA, a Democrat, brought those charges in the middle of a contentious presidential election in which President Trump was the leading Republican candidate,” Trump argues in the filing. “These charges against President Trump were as unprecedented as their political context."
Last May, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records, which prosecutors said stemmed from a sweeping and salacious hush money scheme aimed at quelling bad press during his 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump’s former personal attorney and “fixer”
Michael Cohen testified at trial that Trump directed him to carry out a $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, who Trump was concerned would share details from their 2006 sexual encounter at an inopportune time during the election.
When it was time for Cohen to be repaid, he said Trump signed off on a monthly payment plan to illegally disguise reimbursement checks as standard legal fees. Trump signed those illicit checks from the Oval Office during his first presidential term, according to witness testimony.
Trump could have faced jail time for the 34 felony convictions, but got off
without punishment following his 2024 election win. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan deemed that unconditional discharge was the only conceivable way to sentence an incoming president.
Still, Trump is trying to clear his name by claiming that Merchan should have recused himself from the case based on his supposed political past.
“The trial was conducted by a judge who refused to recuse himself despite having made political contributions to President Trump’s electoral opponents and despite having disqualifying family conflicts,” Trump argues.