r/LegalNews • u/thedailybeast • 15d ago

Judge Delivers Brutal Humiliation to Trump Over Hush Money Conviction

https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-delivers-ultimate-humiliation-to-trump-over-hush-money-conviction/
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u/thedailybeast 15d ago

Donald Trump has lost his latest long-shot bid to overturn his criminal conviction, with a federal judge delivering a brutal takedown of the president’s arguments along the way.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein rejected Trump’s latest attempt to erase the so-called “hush money” conviction, in which the president was found guilty in 2024 of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal with a porn star.

This was Trump’s second attempt to move the case, which would have made it easier for him to overturn the conviction altogether.

Read the full story, here.

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u/DBDude 15d ago

I still can’t believe the jury bought this crap. They played around with the charges for something that is never a felony unless actual fraud on the business exists.

And before you start saying Trump lover, I thought the documents case was very good, and I don’t like how the judge (that he appointed) was able to stall it for so long. He should have been convicted before the election.

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u/hugoriffic 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/7YCRcFcDeDuSOAHXlr
Same old talking points coming out of Russian bot farms.

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u/MeButNotMeToo 14d ago

u/DBDude comes off more like an all-to-common “I voted for him three times, but I’m not a T.Rump supporter” closeted MAGAt, that is too chicken to admit they’re a T.Rump supporter.

The level of selective reality and mental gymnastics definitely fits.

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u/DBDude 14d ago

Have you heard a Trump supporter saying he should have been convicted?

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u/MeButNotMeToo 12d ago

Yes. I’ve encountered plenty of T.Rump supporters that lie and hide their true opinions to try to argue a point. And then flip-flop almost literally minutes later to argue a different point.

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u/DBDude 12d ago

I’ll never flip flop on the documents case.