Five months before the 2024 presidential election, a Manhattan jury convicted Donald Trump of falsifying business records with the intent to conceal "another crime." On Monday, the president's lawyers asked a New York appeals court to overturn those convictions, arguing that they were based on fallacious legal theories, inadequate evidence, and flagrantly deficient jury instructions.
All of those arguments are compelling. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg "concocted a purported felony by stacking time-barred misdemeanors under a convoluted legal theory," Trump's 96-page appeal brief says. "This case should never have seen the inside of a courtroom, let alone resulted in a conviction."
