00:00This trial made Donald Trump the only U.S. president ever convicted of a crime.
00:04Today, his lawyers asked an appeals court to throw the conviction out.
00:08If they win, that won't be true anymore.
00:11In 2024, a jury convicted him on 34 felony counts of faking business records
00:16to hide a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
00:21His sentence? No jail, no fine, but the conviction stuck.
00:25His lawyers call it the most politically charged prosecution in our nation's history.
00:30They say prosecutors stretched New York law and jurors heard evidence that presidential immunity
00:35should have blocked, like White House talks about how to handle the scandal.
00:40Manhattan prosecutors say it's a crime New York charges all the time,
00:43and even without anything immunity could cover, they say the evidence of his guilt was overwhelming.
00:49But today's hearing won't settle it.
00:51The same court took almost a year to rule on Trump's civil fraud appeal.
00:54And both sides already say it's headed higher, maybe even all the way to the Supreme Court.
00:58For now, he's still the only president ever convicted of a crime.
01:02So should Trump's conviction stand, or should it be thrown out?
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