Manhattan DA challenges Trump's appeal of his 2024 hush money conviction

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The Manhattan district attorney's office is urging an intermediate appellate court in New York to reject President Donald Trump's challenges to his 2024 criminal hush money conviction that made him the first American president to be convicted of a crime and then to take office as a felon.

A jury in Manhattan convicted Trump of 34 counts of falsifying business records after Manhattan prosecutors alleged that he engaged in a "scheme" to boost his chances during the 2016 presidential election through a series of hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, then falsified New York business records to cover up that alleged criminal conduct.

Trump has argued the Supreme Court's controversial 2024 presidential immunity decision, which established sweeping protection from prosecution for "official acts," made some of the evidence and testimony from the prosecution's case off-limits.

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