Trump lawyers get an earful from judge over desperate new move: 'Two bites at the apple'

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By Robert Davis
Published February 4, 2026 6:15 PM ET

President Donald Trump's lawyers were chastized by a federal judge on Wednesday for trying to take "two bites at the apple" in the president's latest attempt to get his felony convictions thrown out.

In May 2024, Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts for falsifying dozens of business records related to a hush money payment he gave to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an affair the two had years before. The payment occurred when Trump was running for president for the first time, leading prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office to conclude that the payments were part of a scheme to influence the election results.

In November, judges on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered New York federal judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to review the case again. On Wednesday, Trump's lawyers got an earful from Hellerstein, who accused them of trying to take "two bites at the apple," Politico reported.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675090399/

Me thinks that his wallet is going to lighter................pay up...........

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1. The sad thing is...

Right now, 34 million is peanuts to him. For the first time in his life, he is a legitimate billionaire. Real money, to boot, not paper promissory notes that many (such as Elon Muskrat) have.

I wonder which is the stronger impetus for pursuing this: the monetary sickness the ultra rich have where everything wouldn’t be enough, or the deep insecurity he’s been taught that to lose at anything means death.

I know both ideas are involved, just wondering which pathology is the main force.

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2. He just has no morality / empathy / nothing and he fears death because it shows just like all dictators/ fascists they

die just like everyone else................and when he passes there will be millions in the street with signs rot in your hell dude.............and there will be no sympathy..............count me in.............