NEW YORK, (WOWO) – The jury in Donald Trump’s hush money trial has reached a verdict, signaling a highly anticipated culmination of the first criminal case against a former American president.
As reported by The Associated Press, Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.
Jurors convicted Trump on all 34 counts after deliberating for 9.5 hours.
The verdict is a stunning legal reckoning for Trump and exposes him to potential prison time in the city where his manipulations of the tabloid press helped catapult him from a real estate tycoon to reality television star and ultimately president.
As he seeks a return to the White House in this year’s election, the judgment presents voters with another test of their willingness to accept Trump’s boundary-breaking behavior.
Trump is expected to quickly appeal the verdict and will face an awkward dynamic as he seeks to return to the campaign trail as a convicted felon.
There are no campaign rallies on the calendar for now, though he’s expected to hold fundraisers next week.
It will likely take several months for Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the case, to decide whether to sentence Trump to prison.
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We now live in the Soviet Union. The trial was a sham. he judge is corrupt. The Jurors were biased in the extreme. Now George Soros’ boy, Alvin Braggadocios, can buy his Twinkies by the truckload. The American Judicial system is garbage and rotting faster than ever. Bragg doesn’t even put violent felons into the court system until the individual has three separate cases against him. But he spent hows many $Millions attacking the leading presidential candidate?
Donald J. Trump’s poll numbers go up again and his donation spike the website there are so many of them.
I’m voting for Trump at the first opportunity in early voting!
Everyone with a brain knows this “trial” was a political farce from the get-go.