President-elect Trump’s motion to dismiss District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s 34 hush money convictions debuts a novel argument — that New York’s case against the 47th president is not only unconstitutional, but undemocratic.

Borrowing from the language the incumbent US president used to pardon his son Hunter, the president-elect’s lawyers have argued that their client is the victim of "political theatre".View on euronews

President-elect Trump’s attorneys laid out their arguments for why his criminal conviction in New York should be dismissed entirely in a new court filing made public Tuesday in which they cited

Trump’s attorneys wrote that a judge had to ensure their client, who has not been sentenced, would be released from the case involving guilty verdicts on 34 counts.