Former US president, Donald Trump has declared his intention to appeal his criminal conviction for falsifying business records.
This is following hush-money charges laid on Trump at Tower in New York City on May 31, 2024.
Donald Trump, the ex-President of the United States, declared his intention to appeal his criminal conviction for falsifying business records on Friday, May 31.
He asserts that his legal team has identified multiple grounds to challenge the verdict issued by a New York jury.
“We’re going to be appealing this scam… on many different things,” said Trump, who is seeking reelection in November polls, in a rambling speech.
Trump also railed against his criminal conviction on Friday, calling his New York trial “very unfair”, attacking the process as politicized and vowing to appeal.
“It was very unfair… You saw what happened to some of the witnesses that were on our side — they were literally crucified,” Trump said in a rambling speech at Trump Tower in Manhattan in which he called his adversaries “sick” and “fascists.”
He vowed to challenge his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records, declaring “We’re going to be appealing this scam… on many different things.”
Trump claimed that he wanted to testify, as was his legal right, but that he was not permitted to.
