Trump Convicted of All 34 Felony Counts in Hush Money Trial — Get Details on Historic Verdict
Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 felony counts in the criminal trial that has been playing out in New York over the past five weeks.
The felony conviction of a onetime POTUS (and presumptive GOP nominee in this November’s presidential election) is unprecedented.
The verdict was arrived at 29 hours after the New York jury of 12 first began deliberating, after they’d heard five weeks of testimony from 22 witnesses and eight hours of closing arguments. All told, there were about nine hours of deliberation.
Trump is set to be sentenced on Thursday, July 11 at 10 am ET — four days before the July 15 Republican National Convention that will formally choose their nominee for this year’s presidential election.
“This was a disgrace,” Trump said outside the courthouse, around 5:20 pm ET. “This was a rigged, disgraceful trial. The real verdict is going to be November 5 [Election Day] by the people, and they know what happened here, and everybody knows what happened here.
“We didn’t do a thing wrong,” he continued. “I’m a very innocent man. It’s OK, I’m fighting for our country and our Constitution. Our whole country is being rigged right now.”
Shortly thereafter, the Biden-Harris campaign issued the following statement:
Trump in this particular legal matter was arrested in April 2023 and charged with 34 felony counts — including a felony charge of falsifying business records — related to hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, with whom he allegedly had sexual encounters in 2006. The charges brought by Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg stemmed from Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testifying that he paid off Daniels in 2016 and passed it off as a legal expense, as Trump pursued his first White House bid. Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker allegedly brokered the Daniels deal as well as used a “catch-and-kill” arrangement with Playboy model Karen McDougal to keep quiet her own 2006 affair with Trump.
For Trump to be found guilty of a felony charge of falsifying business records, jurors had to decide that he not only “cause(d) a false entry in the business records of an enterprise” while acting “with intent to defraud,” but also that the “intent to defraud includes an intent to commit another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.”
This was not the onetime POTUS’ first scrape with the law.
In June 2023, Trump was arrested and charged with 37 felony counts involving his alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left office in January 2021. Trump’s valet Walt Nauta was also arrested and charged in that case. That historic arraignment of a former president accused Trump of keeping classified documents in boxes stored at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, showing them to people without a security clearance, and not returning them when asked.
On Aug. 1, 2023, a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. brought four charges against Trump, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. The indictment alleged that Trump “pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the [2020] election results” in an effort to remain in the Oval Office — despite the fact that he lost said election. It also covered Trump’s alleged role in inciting the January 6th Capitol riot, where his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, attacking police officers and vandalizing the building in an effort to keep Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory.
Then on Aug. 14, 2023, Trump was indicted for a fourth time in five months, charged with 13 felonies for allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Eighteen of Trump’s allies, including Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Mark Meadows, were also charged in the indictment. Those charges stemmed from Trump’s alleged attempts to claim victory in the state of Georgia in the 2020 election, despite the fact that he officially lost the state to Biden by 11,779 votes.
Trump is set to debate incumbent President of the United States Joe Biden on Thursday, June 27, at CNN’s Atlanta studios, with no audience present, and with CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash serving as moderators. Both presumptive candidates have also agreed to a second debate, to be held Sept. 10 and air on ABC, with David Muir and Linsey Davis of ABC News as moderators.
I’m sure the comment section will be calm, cordial, and full of good takes.
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LMAO, look its a good thing but to what end though? I guess I’m just stupid cuz I don’t get what this really accomplishes. He’s still going to run for President and may win, he still has a ton of loyal followers, will he ever spend a day in jail??
He’s the king of spin, so i get saying what does this accomplish, but stuff like this has to be done. Just because donald trump has done away with normal behavior doesnt mean our justice system should too.
You’re right, thank you!!
This. Plus, it’ll be fascinating to watch the Republican Party and their supporters try and justify and defend supporting and voting for him after all of this. I’d like to think they couldn’t possibly sink any lower, but knowing how they are, well…
Doubtful he will ever spend a day in jail, but it was necessary to go through the motions for the rule of law.
He defintely won’t go to prison before the election, if ever. First, we have to see what the sentencing judge decides in July. Since Trump is a first-time white collar offender, it is possible, maybe likely, that he will receive a suspended sentence, community service or home confinement.
But more importantly, even if he is sentenced to an actual prison term, the case will likely be tied up in appeals for several years, so Trump could theoretically get elected, serve four years as president and still be in the courts when his term expires. By that point he will be well into his 80s, effectively retired from politics, and it’s doubtful whether anyone will stare care if he serves actual prison time.
DT is incapable of accepting he has lost ANYTHING! If he gets back into office, whether in prison, home confinement or probation, he will never leave the office of President. Never. He will set things up so that he will not be limited to 2 terms. He has made that abundantly clear time and time again.
Not likely. In case you missed it, he did leave office after his first term, even though he didn’t want to. If he is elected to another term, you may be right he won’t want to leave office. But he won’t really have much choice. The military, the other branches of government, the new incoming president, and even the local law enforcement authorities won’t allow him to remain in office illegally. By saying he will refuse to limit himself to two terms, you are pretty much engaging in the same silly scare tactics that he uses.
He has never admitted that he lost. DJT has gone on and on for 4 years about the election being stolen and how corrupt it was. When he said he wanted to be a dictator for ‘the first day only’ it’s laughable. He can do a lot of damage to your country and others in 4 years and it will all be about revenge. You don’t have to believe me, but believe him. Just look at what has happened to anyone who has crossed him.
Please explain how he will do this instead of just repeating something you heard. That may require you to do some actual thinking though.
He tried like hell not to leave last time. Does January 6, 2021 ring a bell? He only left because his little coup d’etat failed.
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See? Not repeating things I heard. Using FACTS. You’re welcome.
Thank you Wendy R.😃
He may end up with just probation as a first offender. However there are currently 3 other trials pending where, if found guilty there, he will no longer be considered a first offender, as a result of this verdict, so could lead to much harsher sentences in those trials.
The armchair lawyers are googling madly right now.
I see your popcorn and raise you a bourbon. 🥃
I see your 🍿, your 🥃, and raise you couple of 🍸 with some 🥂 later! Saving the slurpees for 7/11 (sentencing date!). 🥳
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Dem jury, Dem judge, Dem prosecutor convicted trump. New York is a blue state. It is run by Democrats. Trump was never going to get a fair trial and everyone knew. It doesn’t matter.
I live outside of NYC and most of the counties in New York state are red. You have no clue what you are talking about. Facts are facts. And lies are lies. Stop trying to mix the two.
So you are saying New York is conservative state? what a liar!!!!
No, they are saying some counties in NY state are more conservative. Of course, NYC is a liberal stronghold. Learn to interpret written text.
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Shouldn’t these guilty verdicts nullify his bid for the GOP nomination?
Would if party was sane.
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Party has not been a sane entity in quite some time.
There’s actually nothing in the Constitution that prevents someone convicted of a felony or even in prison from running for president.
Nope. There are no legal obstacles to running for president as a convicted felon or even from behind bars. They really need to fix that.
if treason charge.
it would bar the person running from office.
As a convicted felon, DT can’t even vote now.
A felon’s right to vote depends in the where he lives as State laws vary. Interesting thing is that someone can vote in New York as a convicted felon but not in Florida. From my understanding, that would mean Trump can’t vote for himself in Florida.
Florida defers to the state where he was convicted, NY only prohibits felons from voting if they are actually in prison on election day. Since Trump will almost certainly be free pending appeal on election day, Florida will allow him to vote.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the Constitution does not list being a Convicted Felon as a reason to disqualify anyone from running for the Office of President of the United States at any level.
and this is why the constitution has been and will continue to be a joke
If you think the Constitution is a joke, then get other like-minded people to vote for representatives at the state and national level who agree with you and change it.
The Constitution is whatever the citizens of this nation want it to be. If enough people really want to change it, then it will be changed.
There are very few other countries in the world where the people really do have the ultimate ability to make and change laws.
I don’t vote lmao. I don’t care
If you’re political views are the opposite of what you’re state is your vote won’t count most of the time that’s the problem. The constitution is very flawed and it’s taken over 200 years to correct many of those flaws and there is still much yet to be done but it takes too damn long.
Then move to another state. And if you can’t find a state where your views correspond to other citizens of that state, then move to another country.
That’s why we need to get rid of the electoral college. It should be one person casts one vote that counts.
I’d say outdated, which is frustrating at times, but I think a joke is going a little to far.
Outdated is a very polite description for the constitution only allowing freedom to white males amongst other things, very hypocritical how the USA was founded to end the injustices of the British crown and yet the USA was no better and in fact much worse in some ways later on.
My copy of the Constitution does not restrict freedom to white males. Show me where it says that, and then show me how you would correct the wording.
That is not at all what I meant. You are using my words to fit your view.
I blame the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that “No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who… shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” The problem? Those who drafted it could not conceive that President of the United States would be so corrupt as to necessitate being included in the list of officeholders!
The President is included. It clearly says “any office, civil or military, under the United States”. The issue is that the amendment doesn’t provide a mechanism for determining if someone has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion”, and provides no direction on enforcement. However, if Trump is convicted in the federal trial covering the January 6th events, then at that point he might become vulnerable under that clause.
“The President is included.” Not according to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled on this issue in March as a result of the Colorado lawsuit. I wish it were otherwise.
I’ve been wondering that myself. As this has never happened before, I doubt anyone ever came up with a contingency plan for a situation like this cause who would think they needed to??
That being said, I’m also not familiar with the rules for how the GOP (or the Democrats for that matter) chooses it’s candidate. Is it only based on the number of delegates awarded at the primaries? Or are there other requirements?
My understanding is that delegates are bound to their candidate on the first round of voting unless released by the candidate, which means Trump is almost definitely assured of receiving the nomination under present rules. Now the GOP could try to change its rules to allow the leadership of the party to disregard the delegates’ vote under certain specific conditions (like, say, the nominee is convicted of a felony) but with Lara Trump effectively controlling the party’s rules committee, I don’t see that happening.
Logically they should, but unfortunately they likely won’t. I would think there’s an argument to be made though that if a felony conviction prohibits you from even entering the armed services, then how can you be Commander in Chief with a felony conviction (or 34, lol)??? Sadly, though, any sense of logic has flown out the window where this cretin is concerned.
Because the Commander-in-Chief, i.e., the President, is not a member of the military and is not considered to be a member of the Armed Forces, even though the military reports to the President. It is similar to the Chief of Police in a community who may report to the Mayor, even though the Mayor is not a member of the police or a law enforcement officer.
There is a God..
Celebrate good times…come on!!! The two lawyers on the jury had me nervous.
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Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving “person”.
Boy, did Trump sure do a lot of firsts while as President of the US…
First president in 28 years to not serve a second term.
First president in 45 years not to release any of his tax returns.
First president in 89 years to lose the presidency, the House and the Senate in a single term.
First president in 102 years to allow more than 120,000 Americans to die in a single virus outbreak.
First president in 129 years to lose the popular vote twice.
First president in 152 years to boycott his successors inauguration.
First president ever to fail to hit a 50% approval rating at any point during their presidency.
First president ever to be elected with the help of a foreign nation.
First president ever to be impeached twice.
First president ever to have a member of their own party vote for conviction in an impeachment trial.
First president ever to have an arrest warrant issued against him by a foreign nation.
First president ever to refuse to concede defeat.
First president to be banned from social media.
First president to refuse to ensure the peaceful transfer of power.
First president to have their home searched for official national security documents.
First former president found liable of sexual abuse, defamation & business fraud.
First former president criminally indicted (also the second, third and fourth).
First former president with a mugshot.
First former president to await a jury’s verdict as the defendant in a criminal trial.
And now, the first former president to be a convicted felon.
So many firsts, so much winning.
He must be sick of it.
Yep. Donald Trump is a felon
He joins his campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, national security advisor, foreign policy advisor, political consultant, and personal lawyer as felons.
No, because I truly think he hasn’t done anything wrong! Hopefully he’ll continue this winning and be held accountable for even more crimes although I don’t hold out much hope for his documents case in Florida with the Judge he appointed. I’ll take this one time he has been held accountable though.👍
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He has been playing the victim to perfection. If he’s such a victim then it shows what a loser he is in my opinion. Just sayin’……………..
Don’t forget he was held in contempt 10 times in this trial alone.
How exactly did he “allow” 120k Americans to die during the pandemic? You say that as if any Democratic governors handled COVID any better than he did on the federal level. Be objective about it – covid was poorly handled at every single level of government. Things wouldn’t have been any better under Hilary, outside of liberal media likely reporting things in a more favorable light than they did for Trump.
When he began his term, he had the ACTUAL PLAYBOOK on how to prevent a pandemic thrown out and the agency that wrote it disbanded. Because Obama made that happen. He had to destroy everything Obama did just because he was that effing petty. Google it, there’s a picture showing that it was actually called the playbook.
Fast forward to end of 2019/beginning 2020, he is told that there’s danger of something called covid becoming a deadly pandemic. The cases were initially appearing in big cities which often trend blue. Multiple people have said that he deliberately did nothing because he was fine with the blue cities dying. The idiot thought it wouldn’t spread to the red areas.
THAT is how he allowed over a million Americans to die.
* I don’t recall the particular names of those who finally spoke about his horrific choice because I’ve read enough books and lost track of who confirmed that particular atrocity.
** I don’t have time to look up the exact studies but it was shown that had he done something on Day 1, the death count would have been about half.
*** There was almost an Ebola breakout during Obama’s presidency. He didn’t play games, he got it stopped before it started here in this country. Not sure if he formed the agency before or after that but it was clearly needed and he made that happen. I wonder if Biden resurrected the agency?
Hillary wouldn’t have killed the agency formed to put together a playbook on how to stop a pandemic. It was literally called the playbook
Obama created it. He stopped Ebola from coming here with it. You only heard about a couple of people infected coming in and then nothing. Because he immediately did something about it.
Frump killed the agency and threw away the book. Covid showed up. He thought it would mainly only kill Democrats (early cases in cities which trend blue) and did nothing.
That’s how he “allowed” over a million Americans die. He only survived his own infection because treatments had been found and were being tested.
“You say that as if any Democratic governors handled COVID any better than he did on the federal level.”
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I hate to throw actual FACTS at your claim, but as long as you want to “be objective about it”… post-vaccine, death rates in red states were 38% higher than in blue states. (Source: Pew Research Center)
“First president ever to be elected with the help of a foreign nation.”
Well that’s just not true. The Bush Crime Family pretty much committed outright acts of treason in 1968 with the Vietnamese and in 1980 with the Iranians to help their guys (Nixon & Reagan) win those elections. And they did far more than the Russians did in 2016.
Not justifying any of the three, just stating the facts.
Hahaha! Deep breath. Hahaha
Can he please be put in jail, locked in and forgotten? I’d eat the keys if necessary. He can still run for president, that’s so stupid. Convicted felons as far as I know in the US are not allowed to have firearms, but he could have access to the most powerful weapons on earth. Felons are also not allowed to vote but he could and would make so many dangerous decisions, and that with the IQ of a piece of toast.
Then don’t vote for him.
It’s not as simple as that. DT has caused chaos in countries in so many parts of the world, not just yours. His lies, half truths, word salads and love for dictators, not to mention his actions, makes it look like the rules/law don’t apply to him and his words and illegal actions have no consequences. It makes America look weak or dumb for voting for him. Bear in mind that this is how Hitler started. DT cares about DT ONLY. He doesn’t give a damn about anyone else, even his own family and is already fundraising off this verdict. smdh
Then don’t vote for him. And urge other people who agree with you to not vote for him.
No reading comprehension? Did you not see where I said YOUR country? I don’t live in America so I can’t vote in your elections. I am simply on the outside looking in. DJT did say he liked his uneducated fans.
If you don’t live here, then don’t worry about it. It’s literally not your problem. If you want to worry about someone, worry about Putin, who has his fingers on a button that can take out most of Europe, if not the world. Worry about Xi, who may be on the verge of invading Taiwan. Worry about Ali Khamenei, who is on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. None of them attained power through free elections. Neither did Hitler, who you’ve tried to compare to Trump. Trump has no power and won’t unless he is elected. And if ends up being elected, then that is the right of the nation who elected him.
I do worry about all of them and what they can do just as that is what DT aspires to be liked if elected. He’s a massive fan of Putin and XI. We live in a global society and what DT does affects more people than just Americans.
Your are correct in that you have the absolute right to elect whomever you choose, just like my country is.
Also, many extremists consider him a role model, including the PM of my country and his diehard fans. They take freedom and democracy for granted and forget that once a dictator gets unlimited power, they do anything to keep it, regardless of the suffering of the people.
tripped over furniture coming to see the comments … let it rip
Not surprised if these Trump supporters refuse to accept reality or making bad excuses since many of them haven’t learned basic critical thinking skills or argument skills.
Time to grab popcorn.
There’s a sizeable number, a difference making number, of undecided voters who have expressed that they won’t vote for a convicted felon. Let’s hope they stay true to their word.
He needs to go to prison and have the key thrown away. Seriously all of those counts he was found guilty.
A sham of a trial. This was so obviously orchestrated by the Biden administration & the Democratic Party. If you don’t see that, you’re delusional.
I love how Biden is so inept yet at the same time is a grand mastermind able to control an entire legal system. I salute your delusions.
Julia,,,
It is you that
is delusional…
Which tinfoil hat will you choose on the day of his sentencing?
Joe Biden did not convict Donald Trump.
The Democratic Party did not convict Donald Trump.
No politician convicted Donald Trump.
A jury of regular everyday citizens who didn’t ask for the job reviewed the evidence and convicted Donald Trump.
Trump was found guilty by a group of everyday citizens selected by Trump’s team besides the prosecution. Please decide at last if Biden is an incompetent old man or a real mastermind, the two are not really compatible.
Half of what I say is meaningless.
But I say it just to reach you, Julia.
Hahaha! LOCK HIM UP! LOCK HIM UP!
So to recap, the GOP frontrunner is a guy who’s been impeached twice and is now a convicted felon. And he’s the first former presidetn in history to achieve both those dubious distinctions.
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But please, GOP, do go on about how you’re the party of law and order.
Angela,,,
Well said 👏👏.
What a travesty. The judge made so many reversible errors. I’ve practiced criminal law for 30 years and never seen anything like it.
Did you practice criminal law or where you convicted by the law? What do they call it ambulance chaser? Small difference.
If you’ve never seen anything like it be glad that means that before Trump you had sane people in office.
So then let the courts reverse these 34 felony convictions on appeal and follow the rule of law regarding the “reversible errors”. Of course none of us have seen “anything like this” as this is the first time a former president has been convicted by a jury of his peers.
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I’m not saying this is right or legal to do but I would be shocked if some genius didn’t change the awning at Trump tower from 45 to 34 tonight.
Trump has done shady things, no doubt, and likely illegal things. So have most of the people in our government. I don’t want Trump elected, but this whole case is a stretch and there have been pretty obvious irregularities in the way it was constructed and tried. It will almost certainly be overturned on appeal, so what has this actually accomplished? Nothing, that’s what. Bragg and company went through this process knowing that they likely lose on appeal, but that sweet “get Trump” nectar was irresistible.
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So now it’s no longer just my opinion, it’s a legal fact…DONALD TRUMP IS A CROOK!
You should see Dick Nixon’s reaction to all this!
Disgrace is how anyone could still support him.
The icing on the cake is it wasn’t a hung jury. One of the jury members only got their news from TruthSocial and X. Those were his only news sources yet he also found Trump guilty on all 34 charges. The evidence had to be overwhelming for that to happen.
Karma sure is a b**ch ain’t it??
I will vote for Trump anytime any day if it means that the Pro Hamas Terrorists on the Democrats side will lose. Guilty or not, when you support terrorists you don’t get my vote!
Doesn’t Trump support Putin? Yes, terrorists…bad. Dictators…good?
There are no “pro-Hamas terrorists” vying against Trump on November’s presidential ballot. #falseequivalence
Today should be designated a new national holiday.
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I am glad that Trump has finally faced accountability/justice, and I thank the jury for doing its sworn duty.
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I will say, though, I am wondering just how sentencing will work on July 11th. I guess time will tell.
Since there is little chance he will go to prison, I hope he is sentenced to community service. It will be fun to watch him collect trash on the side of the road.