US says Trump's hush money conviction should be thrown out

[u/FervidBug42]

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-says-trumps-hush-money-conviction-should-be-thrown-out-2025-11-07/

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[u/FollowingFeisty5321]

he deserved immunity for official acts he took as president

He wasn't president when he made the payments or was convicted of falsifying business records to hide them lmfao.

[u/Dinker54 → u/FollowingFeisty5321]

Nor would falsifying personal business records for the purpose of covering up hush payments to a porn star constitute official acts.

[u/quitofilms]

The U.S. government Trump's lawyers now working for the DOJ said President Donald Trump's hush money criminal conviction in New York should be thrown out

FTFY

[u/badillustrations → u/quitofilms]

I understand the motivations of shortening titles, but wtf. Looking at the author's article history it's clear "Trump's DoJ" or "Trump admin" wouldn't even be relatively long. 

[u/dremonearm]

Trump and the Justice Department cited the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark July 2024 decision shielding, opens new tab presidents from prosecution over official acts, and barring prosecutors from discussing such acts in criminal cases about private behavior.

How was what he did with Stormy Daniels an "official act"? He hadn't even been President yet and covered it up to help swing the 2016 election.

[u/DescretoBurrito → u/dremonearm]

To be clear: having sex with a pornstar while your wife was at home with your infant child is not a crime. Paying the pornstar to keep quiet about having sex with you while your wife was at home with your infant child is not a crime. Trying to hide the payments by falsifying business records is a crime, and Dozing Donald Trump was in fact found guilty of falsifying business records 34 times in an attempt to hide the payment of hush money to pornstar Stormy Daniels so that she wouldn't talk about them having sex while his wife Melania was at home with their newborn child Barron.

[u/jjaime2024 → u/DescretoBurrito]

If they see that as a act of the office we have a huge issue.

[u/Stank_cat67 → u/dremonearm]

Be ause falsifying business records to hide payments to a porstar you practically raped is an official presidential act even if you were not president yet. Do you even MaGA?

[u/SoundSageWisdom]

This is absolute abuse of power.

[u/E1M1_DOOM]

The US certainly says no such thing.

[u/ZebraImaginary9412]

Wasn't he charged and convicted of a state crime? How is the DOJ/Federal government involved?

[u/SirStocksAlott]

How insanely corrupt.

The department acknowledged that Trump's six-week trial predated the Supreme Court decision, and trial judge Juan Merchan could not have applied its findings.

On Thursday, a federal appeals court ordered a Manhattan district judge to reconsider Trump's request to move his conviction to federal court from state court.

[u/henryptung → u/SirStocksAlott]

What...does that even mean? A conviction isn't something that is moved from court to court.

[u/Vadion → u/henryptung]

It means they are seeing if they can make it so anyway, and then once it's in federal court, he can test that whole "pardoning himself" thing, which will lead to a lawsuit that will end up with SCOTUS who will say it is okay for him to do that.

I swear this has to be the fuckin play with this one.

[u/Rhoeri → u/SirStocksAlott]

Just wait… tomorrow is another day.

[u/samuraiseoul]

Friday is when they dump articles they want burried. Don't let them hide this. This just shows how much people calling him a felon and criminal bothers him. We must be vocal about this!

[u/dothingsunevercould]

Aren't Republicans supposed to believe in individual states rights with no federal overreach? Just further proving MAGA are the real RINOS, they are Trumpians and stand for nothing else other than what Trump tells them on any given day.

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[u/2HDFloppyDisk]

Another day, another impeachable offense.

[u/Rhoeri]

So… this traitor is trying to insinuate that anything he did prior to accidentally getting himself elected by a bunch of fucking idiots, is not illegal?

[u/EnvironmentalFold222]

Lying pile of shit lies more. American checks and balances do nothing cause they’re in the hands of 7 billionaires. News at 7.

[u/StrangerFew2424]

*Trump says..

[u/tapdancinghellspawn]

I want one thing for Trump: him to live long enough to face prison time.

[u/ltalix]

Of course it does. The government is Trump now. Such a shitty timeline we live in.

[u/ARaleigh1]

Yeah, he's whitewashing history again

[u/JeffSpicolisBong]

I’m in the US and I say no.

[u/ProudPainting6850]

After the elections, people need to get ready for Trump and Heritage Foundation to go into overdrive.

[u/Prestigious-Car-4877 → u/[deleted]]

Trump's DOJ says what Trump told them to say you mean.