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.
In my opinion these charges are an international embarrassment (not as embarrassing as Trump, but still)
Felonies for paying a prostitute and not writing “Prostitute” in the memo section of the check? Oh no.
Release the Epstein files
ETA if a politician wants to use their election funds to pay prostitutes, the last thing that we should do is put a stop to it. GO AHEAD waste all of your donor money. Good.
Falsifying business records to protect his campaign isn’t a joke, even if he’s a clown
If that’s the rule that brings him down, that’s the one I’ll take
Al Capone got got on tax evasion. If this is what gets Trump in jail, so be it.
It’ll be easier to stick him with the rest of it once he’s behind bars.
I’m just gonna leave this here: https://www.wttw.com/chicago-stories/al-capones-bloody-business/catching-capone