Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian expose how convicted felon President Trump filed a 96-page appeal attempting to overturn his 34 felony convictions for falsifying business records, arguing that signing reimbursement checks to Michael Cohen in the White House constituted “official acts” protected by presidential immunity under the Supreme Court’s Trump v. United States ruling—despite the underlying hush money scheme originating in October 2016 before he became president. The hosts reveal how Trump’s lawyers from Sullivan & Cromwell claim Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg brought a “politically charged prosecution” and that Judge Juan Merchan should have recused himself over $35 in donations to Democratic causes, even as Trump’s administration prosecutes political opponents including James Comey and Letitia James in what they call the “height of hypocrisy.” They detail how the appeal hinges on immunity arguments rejected by Judge Merchan, who found that using evidence of official acts to prove “decidedly personal acts of falsifying business records poses no danger of intrusion on the Executive Branch,” with Trump’s ultimate goal being Supreme Court review where his appointed justices could rule in his favor.