A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush money criminal trial. Hence, unprecedented and historic verdict that makes him the first former president in US history to be convicted of a felony.
- Judge Juan Merchan set a sentencing hearing for July 11. Trump’s sentence is up to the judge, and it includes prison time or probation.
- Prosecutors accused Trump of taking part in an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential election. Furthermore, unlawful plan to suppress negative information. Besides, it also includes concealing a hush money payment to an adult film star.
- Donald Trump found guilty of felony conviction of a former president or party frontrunner is unprecedented. But Trump, who is the 2024 presumptive GOP nominee, still runs for office.
- Trump called the jury’s decision a “disgrace” and said the “real verdict” coming during the presidential election on November 5. President Joe Biden said on social media that his 2024 rival can only be defeated at the ballot box. Despites the verdict, they’re voicing these fears amid growing anxiety that Trump’s criminal sentencing on July 11 in the hush money trial to further roil the election landscape. Trump found guilty of falsifying business records. Additionally, to conceal hush money payments to an adult film star he allegedly had an affair with.
Trump has repeatedly cast doubt about the fairness of the election, and Democratic lawmakers who followed his trial in New York worry that Trump uses whatever sentence is handed down to further inflame his loyal supporters.
