A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to move his hush money criminal case from New York state court to federal court, ruling that the former president.
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to move his hush money criminal case from New York state court to federal court, ruling that the former president had failed to meet a high legal bar for changing jurisdiction. US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein found that the allegations in the Manhattan case pertained to Trump’s personal life, not presidential duties that would have merited a move to federal court. «The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the matter was a purely a personal item of the President—a cover-up of an embarrassing event,» Hellerstein wrote in his ruling, the AP reports. «Hush money paid to an adult film star is not related to a President’s official acts.
