Manhattan DA urges judge to reject Trump's bid to toss out hush money conviction on immunity grounds

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Though the payment was made before he took office, Trump falsified the records after he became president.
33% : If the judge leaves the conviction in place, he will sentence Trump on Sept. 18.
32% : "Prosecutors also told Justice Juan Merchan that Trump passed up his opportunity to make an immunity argument by failing to do so earlier in the case and waiting until March, shortly before the trial was originally set to begin, to claim that evidence related to official acts should be precluded.
28% : Trump was convicted in late May of 34 counts of falsifying the records of his private business in an effort to conceal an October 2016 hush money payment to a porn star that he orchestrated before he was elected president.

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