Mr Trump went to the Appellate Division of the state’s trial court a day after Judge Merchan rebuffed his initial bid to indefinitely postpone sentencing. Mr Trump’s sentencin

Trump hoped that an appellate judge would ice the proceedings in his Manhattan hush money case. He’s due to be sentenced on Friday.

Lawyers for Donald Trump petitioned a New York appeals court on Tuesday to throw out the guilty verdicts against him before his sentencing later this week in a last-ditch attempt to close the book on his criminal hush money case before he takes office.