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Trump appeals New York hush-money conviction over 2016 payment
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Trump’s lawyers are continuing their effort to overturn his 2024 hush-money conviction, asking a New York appeals court to throw out the verdict. The appeal could determine whether the conviction remains on his record while he serves as US president.
A jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. Prosecutors said the payment was part of a scheme to keep damaging information from voters; Trump denies wrongdoing and says the payments to his lawyer, Michael Cohen, were legitimate legal expenses. In January 2025, Trump received an unconditional discharge, leaving him a convicted felon but imposing no further penalty. He is also appealing a separate ruling that rejected his effort to move the case to federal court and have it dismissed on presidential-immunity grounds.
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In short
- Trump is asking a New York appeals court to overturn his conviction.
- The case centres on a $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels.
- His separate federal-court appeal is scheduled for 16 November.
How this story developed
- 42 minutes ago His lawyers asked a New York appeals court to quash the verdict, which left him a convicted felon after a January 2025 unconditional discharge with no further penalty.
- 57 minutes ago Trump’s legal team was continuing its bid to overturn his 2024 New York hush-money conviction, while also challenging a separate ruling on moving the case to federal court.
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The case for
Trump’s strongest case is that the records reflected legitimate legal expenses and that prosecutors stretched a state bookkeeping offence into a politically charged case by tying it to efforts to influence the 2016 election. His lawyers can argue that the trial should have been assessed in light of presidential immunity and that any legal errors warrant overturning the conviction, particularly given its unprecedented implications for a sitting president.
The case against
The prosecution’s case is that the jury heard evidence that the records were falsified to disguise a payment intended to keep potentially damaging information from voters before an election. On this view, the conviction applies ordinary rules against falsifying business records, and Trump’s office does not exempt him from accountability for conduct that predates his presidency.
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Originally published by The Guardian as “Trump tries to get 2024 conviction in hush money corruption case thrown out”.