{"id":31103,"date":"2025-11-06T19:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31103\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T19:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T19:49:14","slug":"trump-gets-another-shot-at-erasing-his-hush-money-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31103\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump gets another shot at erasing his hush money conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A US federal appeal court on Thursday said Donald Trump deserves another chance to show his New York state hush money criminal case belonged in federal court, providing a fresh opportunity for the US president to try to erase his conviction.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump has argued that presidents are immune from prosecution over their official acts.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said a federal district judge should have more closely reviewed whether a 2024 Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity meant some evidence at Trump\u2019s criminal trial should have been excluded.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty in May 2024 on 34 charges of falsifying business records.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg accused Trump of trying to influence the 2016 presidential election by covering up US$130,000 of hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had a sexual encounter with Trump.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Prosecutors said the payments amounted to an excessive, undisclosed contribution to Trump\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-1w1l3op e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762458554_774_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewDuration\" class=\"css-1vqvq42 e1o401181\">02:18<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">New York jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all counts in hush money trial<\/p>\n<p>New York jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all counts in hush money trial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US federal appeal court on Thursday said Donald Trump deserves another chance to show his New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[18933,153,18931,75,84,83,9,24,18934,63,4764,2973,18932],"class_list":["post-31103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-2nd-u-s-circuit-court-of-appeals","tag-donald-trump","tag-jonathan-stempel","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-state-hush-money-criminal-case","tag-nyc","tag-reuters","tag-supreme-court","tag-u-s-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}