President Donald Trump’s lawyers, who appealed to Trump’s silence for money in New York, argued in a presentation of a court on Tuesday that his appeal should be transferred to a Federal Court because prosecutors were based on evidence related to their official acts as president.
Trump was sentenced last year for 34 charges for serious crimes to falsify commercial records in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, but is trying to transfer his appeal to the Federal Court.
On Tuesday, Trump’s lawyers argued in a presentation before the United States Court of Appeals for the second circuit that prosecutors of the Manhattan district prosecutor invite the elimination by introducing evidence on Trump’s official acts.
“Significant categories of Dany’s evidence of proof, including testimony on the communications of the Oval Office of President Trump with the Attorney General and the Communications Director of the White House on matters of public concern, clearly fell on the side of the line of official acts,” wrote Trump Appeal Lawyers, using an acronym for the Office of the Office of the District Prosecutor of Manhattan.
The presentation cited portions of testimony of Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and the testimony of former White House Director, Hope Hicks, about his discussions of the Oval office with Trump during his first term in office.
Prosecutors said both witnesses were discussing what was essentially a private scheme that happened before Trump assumed the position.
President Donald Trump announces an American investment of $ 100 billion of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the Roosevelt room of the White House, in Washington, DC, March 3, 2025.
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Prosecutors have also argued that Trump waited too much to request the elimination after trial, but his lawyers described him “absurd” because “his campaign was overturned by multiple shocking events, including an almost false murder attempt and the exit of President Biden from the race.”
Trump was declared guilty last May in 34 serious crimes of falsify conditional, to protect “the president’s office.”
Trump had tried to transfer the Manhattan case to the Federal Court twice, but a judge of the District Court denied it, decide that the conduct in question had nothing to do with the president’s work.
