President Trump Requests To Appeal Hush Money Conviction
The goal of the appeal is to erase the verdict that made Trump the first person with a criminal record to win the office.
President Trump has requested to appeal his hush money conviction. Trump’s attorneys filed the notice Wednesday, asking New York state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn his conviction last May on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The case involves an alleged scheme to hide a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence during Trump’s 2016 presidential…