Donald Trump’s lawyers attempt to get the DA Bragg ‘s ‘hush money’ case bumped up to Federal Court jas failed….
Trump is trying to say his actions to hide money payments to Stormy Daniel’s where protect ed
By him being President……
The judge dod not agree,….
A federal judge in New York City signaled Tuesday that the state criminal hush money prosecution of former President Donald Trump will soon be returned to state court because Trump cannot prove that he was acting in his capacity as president when he made payments to his private attorney.
Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said he saw “no relationship to any official act of the president” in the actions cited in a prosecution that led Trump to plead not guilty in state court in April to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide 2016 hush money payouts to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters.
He said he’ll officially rule within two weeks on Trump’s effort to move the prosecution to federal court from state court.
The judge said there was “no reason to believe that an equal measure of justice could not be rendered by the state court.”….