President-elect Donald Trump's race to shed himself of the criminal convictions he's racked up in the four years since leaving the White House hit a roadblock Monday when a New York judge rejected his demand to let him off the hook in his fraud case involving hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump was convicted on all 34 felonies in May related to his falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to Daniels. New York Justice Juan Merchan's refusal on Monday to clear him preserved those convictions.