President Trump has appealed the guilty verdicts against him in the Stormy Daniels hush money case , blasting the prosecution as politically motivated and seeking to wipe clean the criminal record he racked up before his return to power.

The president’s legal team, in a 96-page brief filed late Monday, rehashed several arguments they made before, during, and after Trump’s 2024 New York trial. They included accusations that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg “manufactured felony charges” under political pressure and that the trial court judge, Justice Juan Merchan, was biased based on previous donations to Democrats totaling $35.

The appeal doubled down on Trump’s argument that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity proved Merchan should have barred cert

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