President-elect Trump’s attorneys condemned Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) suggested alternatives to dismissing Trump’s hush money criminal conviction, going as far to call one of them “unhinged” and “absurd” Friday. 



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Trump’s lawyers rebuff DA's idea for upholding his hush money conviction, calling it 'absurd'

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution’s

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Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution’s suggestion of preserving the verdict by treating the case the way some courts do when a defendant dies. They called the idea “absurd.” The Manhattan district attorney’s office is asking Judge Juan M. Merchan to “pretend as if one of the assassination attempts against President Tru…

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Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump on Friday slammed a suggestion by Manhattan prosecutors that a judge should consider an option for Trump’s “hush money” case that is typically used when a defendant dies before sentencing. In a filing earlier this week, prosecutors had suggested that Justice Juan Merchan could terminate Trump’s criminal…

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President-elect Trump’s attorneys condemned Alvin Bragg’s suggested alternatives to dismissing Trump’s hush money criminal conviction, going as far to call one of them "absurd."

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The Manhattan district attorney has proposed a number of options for keeping the President-elect’s conviction on the books.

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Trump’s lawyers call for judge to throw out hush money conviction

President-elect Donald Trump's attorneys are fighting back against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's latest filing urging Judge Juan Merchan to treat him as any other defendant, reported NBC News — and took particular issue with prosecutors' logic.The Trump team is arguing that his election is grounds for throwing out the verdict, which prosecutors have argued is nonsense, writing, "President-elect immunity does not exist."In turn, Trump…

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Lawyers for Donald Trump called prosecutors' suggestion that he be treated like a defendant who's died a "dark dream scenario" and "irresponsible," while again urging a New York judge to make the hush money conviction against their client go away.

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Trump urges judge to dismiss hush money case, blasting DA's death analogy as 'unhinged'

President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution’s suggestion of preserving the verdict by treating the case the way some courts do when a defendant dies before sentencing. They called the idea “absurd.”The Manhattan district attorney's office is asking Judge Juan M. Merchan to “pretend as if one of the assassination attempts against President Trump had been succ…

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NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution’s suggestion of preserving the verdict by treating the case the way some courts do when a defendant dies. They called the idea “absurd.” The Manhattan district attorney’s office is asking Judge Juan M. Merchan to “pretend as if one of the assassination attempts against President Trump had been successful…

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Donald Trump’s lawyers rebuff DA’s idea for upholding his hush money conviction, calling it ‘absurd’

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