The charges centered on a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels

The charges centered on a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels

A New York appeals court will be asked on Thursday to throw out Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. The case made history in May 2024, when the verdict turned Trump into the first former, and now current, US president with a criminal conviction. The historic ruling did not stop him from returning to the White House, and it brought no punishment.

The charges centered on a $130,000 payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels, made to obscure the money’s true purpose.

Trump denies any wrongdoing, and has turned to state and federal courts in hopes of unwinding the verdict. He is not expected to attend Thursday’s court session. The appeal turns on complex legal disputes, but the political overtones are hard to miss.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      19 hours ago

      “Heee wuz sent har by gawwwwd to save this cuntry”

      …is literally the kind of crazy shit they say about this pampered failson Manhattanite social climber that hung out with Epstein.

      Meanwhile, someone like Obama is denigrated as a “community organizer”.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        My aunt was a hardcore Christian who thought trump was literally the antichrist. But she loved him for that and voted for him every time. The antichrist is supposed to bring about the end times and she wanted that to happen. These people shouldn’t be allowed out of their houses, let alone allowed to vote.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        19 hours ago

        I like to show those people that article pointing to all the parallels between trump and the biblical antichrist.

        To be fair though, Obama was a great community organizer. I don’t think that’s a pejorative. Have the repugnicans started saying it?

        • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          16 hours ago

          Yes, he was, but the right acted (and still act) like that was a pejorative. You and I don’t think that’s a pejorative, but the cons were trying to paint it like it was some kind of shameful or scary thing to be engaged in.

          I’d ask these people if they were scared of the Rotary Club, or the local Elks, or people organizing church basement bingo, etc…no answer.

          But these are the same people that use “activist” as if it’s a pejorative, even if right wing activism is not only very much a thing, but very well-funded. I guess right-wing activism doesn’t have to really bother with getting people out on the streets…

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            5 hours ago

            I see. So that’s why people rolled their eyes at me when I said Obama was a great community organizer…

            That was in college, but it kinda caught me off guard. I was just trying to point to a potential role model to inspire people to follow his example. Particularly Chicago-era Obama, which maybe younger folks don’t really remember…

            At the time I really felt like young adults needed to be more involved in politics, and in the civil sector. I still feel that way, and reality finally seems to be catching up. Not that I had anything to do with that, but it’s nice to see. I feel vindicated, in a way…

    • jumjummy@lemmy.world
      8·
      21 hours ago

      They use the most ridiculous excuse of “god works through flawed people” or something equally dumb.