A federal appeals court has ruled that Judge Juan Merchan treated President Donald Trump unfairly in the completely fake Stormy Daniels hush money case. The court will allow Trump to revive his bid to overturn his conviction in what the media calls “34 FELONY COUNTS.” The president can now try to have the case moved to federal court. Sorry, Democrats. It looks like you won’t be able to falsely smear Donald Trump as a “convicted felon” for much longer.
Trump’s lawyers tried to move the case to federal court last year, but Judge Merchan refused to even consider that. Merchan’s daughter is a fundraiser for the Democrat Party, and she was raking in a small fortune by breathlessly updating Democrat donors on how her dad was putting Trump through a kangaroo court.
The three-judge panel on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals said that it “cannot be confident” that Merchan adequately considered Trump’s bid to move the case to a federal court.
“The court bypassed what we consider to be important issues bearing on the ultimate issue of good cause,” the judges wrote.
This so-called hush money case has so much misinformation in it that a lot of conservative media outlets are still getting it wrong. Here are the facts of the case.
Years before the 2016 election, Stormy Daniels started having the alleged affair with Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s attorney. Cohen was married at the time. At one point when those two lovebirds were gallivanting around, he took Stormy to Mar-a-Lago and had her snap a picture with his famous boss. Donald Trump had no idea who this broad was. He takes pictures with thousands of people every year.
When Trump announced that he was running for president in 2015, Stormy Daniels’s attorney saw an opportunity. The man who will forever be remembered as Creepy Porn Lawyer, Michael Avenatti, started bragging to everyone he knew that he was going to blackmail some money out of Donald Trump.
Avenatti would use that photograph to claim that Stormy Daniels had an affair with Trump. He correctly figured that it would spook Michael Cohen into getting the money, since Cohen would want to hide his affair with a disgusting porn star. Avenatti was such a loudmouth about the plot that former NBA star Dennis Rodman once heard him bragging about it in a Southern California resort in 2016.
Sure enough, Cohen panicked. When Stormy and Avenatti launched the blackmail and extortion scheme, Cohen took out a reverse mortgage on his New York City condo, without telling his wife. Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels, and Donald Trump never learned about this scheme before the 2016 election.
To pay off his reverse mortgage without his wife finding out, Michael Cohen billed the Trump Organization for bogus “legal services” that never took place. When he became president, Donald Trump divested from any involvement with the Trump Organization business. Someone else at the Trump Organization signed the 34 checks that Michael Cohen used to pay off his reverse mortgage.
That’s what happened. That’s how Donald Trump was convicted on “34 FELONY COUNTS” in a Manhattan kangaroo court.
The “alleged affair” between Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels never took place. Michael Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels and the Creepy Porn Lawyer and falsely billed the Trump Organization to pay for it. Donald Trump never even knew that this had taken place.
Stormy Daniels tried to sue Donald Trump for defamation. That case fell apart in 2018 after she took the witness stand. Stormy admitted, while under oath and facing the penalty of perjury, that she never had sexual relations with Donald Trump. She said it twice under oath. The judge threw out the case and ordered her to pay Trump’s legal fees.
The media has conveniently forgotten that this took place.
The 2nd Circuit panel did not rule on the merits of Trump’s case this week. It only ruled that Trump did not get a fair shake in his effort to move the case to federal court. A lower court will now decide whether to move the case to federal court.
If that happens, the whole trial might have to take place again. A more likely scenario is that a federal judge outside of New York will dismiss this entire nonsense case.