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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump won’t give up the fight over his hush money case in ‘urgent’ attempt to scrap his felony convictions

More than two years after a jury in New York found him guilty on 32 counts, President Donald Trump is desperately trying to erase his felony convictions in his latest “urgent” request for a federal court to take up his case.

Trump was convicted in state court in Manhattan, but his legal team has been trying, unsuccessfully, to remove the case into federal jurisdiction, where he hopes his Department of Justice could make it disappear.

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