Former President Donald Trump has appealed his conviction for falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments made during his 2016 presidential campaign. His lawyers are requesting the case be dismissed before his scheduled sentencing on Friday, just ten days before his potential inauguration.
Donald Trump attends a press conference at Trump Tower in New York on May 31, 2024, the day after a guilty verdict in his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Trump asked a New York court on Tuesday to throw out his conviction on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, and to dismiss the case before his scheduled Friday sentencing.
The request to a state appeals court marked a last-ditch effort by Trump to block a lower-court ruling on Monday to proceed with the sentencing on Friday, 10 days before Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. In Monday’s ruling, Justice Juan Merchan rejected a request from Trump’s lawyers to delay the sentencing while they appealed two of his previous rulings upholding the Manhattan jury’s May guilty verdict on 34 felony counts of falsifying records. The judge wrote that Trump’s request for a delay was mostly “a repetition of the arguments he has raised numerous times in the past.” In scheduling Trump’s sentencing for Friday, Merchan said he was not inclined to send Trump to jail. He said a sentence of unconditional discharge, effectively putting a judgment of guilt on his record without a fine or probation, would be the most practical approach given Trump’s looming inauguration. Citing both presidential immunity and the demands of Trump’s impending inauguration, his lawyers on Monday morning said Merchan’s intention not to penalize Trump was “of no moment.” “Presidential immunity violations cannot be ignored in favour of a rushed pre-inauguration sentencing,” the lawyers wrote in a court filing. The case stemmed from a $130,000 payment Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she said she had with Trump, who denies it. Trump, a Republican, defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in that electio
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