President Trump is seeking to reverse the historic Manhattan hush money conviction that branded him a felon as he campaigned for a second White House term last year.

“This case should never have seen the inside of a courtroom, let alone resulted in a conviction,” the 79-year-old president’s lawyers wrote to a New York appeals court in a filing late Monday.

The appeal is Trump’s latest bid to overturn his guilty verdict on 34 counts of business fraud for covering up a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the runup to his 2016 presidential campaign.

The commander-in-chief’s attorneys blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, for using a “convoluted legal theory” to prosecute the “leading Republican candidate” just months before Election Day 2024.

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