US President Donald Trump has filed an appeal to overturn his May 2024 criminal conviction in the hush-money payment case, arguing he is shielded by presidential immunity.
Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records by a unanimous jury in New York.
In December, citing Trump’s imminent return to the White House, a New York judge sentenced Trump to an unconditional discharge, meaning he would not serve time or pay a fine.
“This case should never have seen the inside of a courtroom, let alone resulted in a conviction,” Trump’s lawyers said in the latest filing.
Ridiculous. He wasn’t president when the crime occurred, he wasn’t president when the trial happened.
Nor was it an “official act”
I’ll be happy to be proven wrong, ecstatic even, but watch as he gets his way because the judiciary is too chicken shit to uphold ‘all men are equal under the law’.
All men are equal under the law, it’s just that apparently Trump is above the law :(
All men are equal. Unfortunately this influential sack of lard doesn’t qualify as one.
It’s been awhile since I was reading about this when it first came up, but I believe part of the issue is his “presidential immunity” would have made how some of the evidence was obtained no longer valid given the immunity. It’s all BS.