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Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump finished speaking at his press conference at Trump Tower after about 40 minutes on Friday.
He spoke to the press and assembled supporters following his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records on Thursday.
Trump claimed that witnesses were “literally crucified” in the case as he slammed the judge yet again as being “highly conflicted” and for being a “tyrant.”
Trump insisted on Thursday that he’s “a very innocent man” after the jury at his New York hush money trial found him guilty on all of the counts he faced, making him the first American president in history to be convicted of a crime.
The defendant sat emotionless as the jury delivered its unanimous verdict, convicting Trump of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment made to the porn star Stormy Daniels on his behalf in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election in order to buy her silence over a sexual encounter she claims they had a decade earlier, which Trump denies.
Key Points
- Trump finishes speech saying election day is ‘most important day in history'
- Trump found guilty on all 34 charges at New York hush money
- Trump says he will appeal hush money verdict, calls judge ‘tyrant'
- Michael Cohen celebrates guilty verdict
- What prison sentence could Trump face?
Can Trump still run for president as a felon?
A jury has convicted Donald Trump in the New York hush-money trial, making him the first US president to be convicted of a crime.
Meanwhile, he faces three other criminal indictments for withholding classified documents in Florida and attempting to overturn the 2020 election in two separate cases in Washington DC and Fulton County, Georgia. And that’s all while he remains hot on the trail of another stint in the White House.
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Joe Sommerlad, John Bowden, Alex Woodward, Ariana Baio31 May 2024 19:00 1717178394Crowds gather outside Trump Tower as former president addresses criminal conviction
Crowds gathered outside Trump Tower for the former president’s planned postconviction remarks on Friday, 31 May, following the jury’s unanimous guilty verdict in his hush money trial.
Trump scheduled a post-trial news conference in the same lobby where he descended a golden escalator to announce his 2016 presidential campaign almost nine years ago.
He was convicted of falsifying business records to cover up a $130,000 payment made to the porn star Stormy Daniels on his behalf in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election in order to buy her silence over a sexual encounter she claims they had a decade earlier, which Trump denies.
Natalie Chinn31 May 2024 18:59 1717178292VIDEO: 'No one is above the law'- Biden on Trump conviction
Biden calls Trump attacks on courts ‘reckless’ in first comments on ex-president’s conviction
President Biden on Friday broke his silence on Donald Trump’s historic criminal record, calling his predecessor’s conviction evidence that America’s justice system worked well and protected the ex-president’s rights.
Mr Biden, who was in the White House State Dining Room for remarks on the Middle East, said yesterday’s jury verdict shows that the “American principle that no one is above the law” had been “reaffirmed”.
“Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself,” he said, adding that the case against Trump had been brought in a state court, not a federal court, and was decided by an ordinary jury of “12 citizens, 12 Americans, 12 people like you” that was chosen “the same way every jury in America is chosen”.
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Andrew Feinberg31 May 2024 18:46 1717177225SNL’s Trump hilariously reacts to guilty verdict
Saturday Night Live’s Donald Trump was resurrected after the former president was found guilty in a high-profile hush-money trial.
Many celebrities, including Robert De Niro, are all reacting to the outcome of the case, which saw Trump become the first criminally convicted US president in history.
Now, James Austin Johnson, a known Trump impersonator who made his debut on US sketch show SNL in 2021, has shared an Instagram video reacting to the verdict.
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Jacob Stolworthy31 May 2024 18:40 1717177029Biden says it’s ‘reckless’ for ‘anyone to say this was rigged'
Before addressing the situation in Gaza, President Joe Biden said that “no one is above the law” and that “Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself.”
He was tried by “12 people like you” on a jury just like “millions of Americans who have served.”
They were “chosen the same way” everyone else is.
After “careful deliberation they reached a unanimous verdict,” and Trump can “appeal that decision just like everyone else has that opportunity.”
It is “reckless, dangerous, irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they didn’t like the verdict.”
The justice system “literally is a cornerstone of America” and we must “not allow anyone to tear it down.”
Alex Woodward31 May 2024 18:37 1717176417Biden campaign calls Trump ‘confused, desperate, and defeated'
The communications director for the Biden campaign issued a statement on Friday after former President Donald Trump’s “unhinged” speech at Trump Tower.
“America just witnessed a confused, desperate, and defeated Donald Trump ramble about his own personal grievances and lie about the American justice system, leaving anyone watching with one obvious conclusion: This man cannot be president of the United States,” Michael Tyler said.
“Unhinged by his 2020 election loss and spiraling from his criminal convictions, Trump is consumed by his own thirst for revenge and retribution,” he added. “He thinks this election is about him. But it’s not. It’s about the American people: lowering their costs, protecting their freedoms, defending their democracy.”
Gustaf Kilander31 May 2024 18:26 1717176025Trump to participate in townhall hosted by NewsNation and X
Donald Trump will participate in a townhall co-hosted by NewsNation and X, Elon Musk’s social media platform.
This is according to Matt Belloni, who wrote in his newsletter that the former president and convicted felon is set to participate in what they call “The People’s Town Hall.”
Gustaf Kilander31 May 2024 18:20 1717175005Trump calls America ‘fascist state’ in rambling post-conviction speech
Donald Trump referred to the US as a “fascist state” in his rambling speech at Trump Tower on Friday.
The former president was criticizing the judge in charge of his hush money case, Judge Juan Merchan, for how he allegedly handled a separate case, which Trump said “destroyed” the life of a “good man,” seemingly in reference to former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.
Trump yet again called the judge in his hush money case “highly conflicted” before going on to say he “wanted to testify.”
“I would have testified, I wanted to testify. The theory is you never testify because as soon as you testify for anybody, if it were George Washington – don’t testify because they’ll get you on something that you said slightly wrong, and then they sue you for perjury,” he said. “But I didn’t care about that, I wanted to.”
Trump said the “very good man ... went to prison once and then they just put him in prison again because they said he lied. He didn't lie. I looked at the statements he made, in fact, he didn't remember something and they put him in jail.”
“Over the education of his grandchildren – he didn't report that he had a car or two cars on his income,” Trump added regarding Weisselberg, who was sentenced to five months behind bars for lying under oath.
“They put him in jail again because they didn't want him to testify,” Trump claimed.
“If you don't give up Trump ... he was told that ‘you're gonna get 15 years in jail’. And he made a plea deal because he didn't want to spend the rest of his life [in prison],” he added.
“We're living in a fascist state,” he said. “He was told that viciously – ‘so you can go to jail for four months, five months, or you can get 15 years in jail.’”
The former president also said that those behind his conviction were “sick people.”
“We have a president and a group of fascists that don’t want to do anything about it,” he added. “He could stop it. But he’s not, they’re destroying our country.”
Gustaf Kilander31 May 2024 18:03 1717174825Ivanka Trump breaks silence after father’s historic criminal conviction: ‘I love you dad’
Ivanka Trump has broken her silence and spoken out in support of her father after the former president’s historic criminal conviction at his hush money trial in New York.
The former first daughter, who also served as a special advisor during Donald Trump’s time in office, posted a heartfelt message to her Instagram, shortly after her father was found guilty of all felony charges on Thursday.
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The former first daughter, who also served as a special advisor during Trump’s time in office, posted a heartfelt message to her Instagram
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