Trump rails against guilty verdict in historic hush-money trial as sentencing set for 11 July – live | Donald Trump trials
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Interim summary: Trump has been found guilty and will be sentenced on July 11
Donald Trump became the first president in US history to be convicted of a felony. Here’s a summary of what happened:
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Trump was found guilty on all 34 charges for falsifying business records in a criminal money laundering scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
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The verdict came after jurors deliberated for less than 12 hours. Trump was convicted by a jury of 12 New Yorkers of felony falsification of business documents.
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Trump will be sentenced on July 11 at 10 am ET. The sentencing date comes just days before the Republican Party formally nominates Trump for president ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
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Can Trump go to jail? Here’s what comes after the conviction.
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Trump has denied wrongdoing and is expected to appeal the sentence. “This was a rigged trial by an embattled judge who was corrupt,” Trump said at the courthouse after the verdict was read. “It was a rigged process, a disgrace.”
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said “the only vote that matters is the jury’s vote.” At a news conference following the sentencing, Bragg noted that “this defendant may be unlike any other in American history,” but that “at the end of the day, this sentence is the same as any other case today.”
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Trump’s sentence has sparked a political firestorm in Washington. Republicans fiercely criticized the verdict as a miscarriage of justice, while Democrats praised the New York jury for delivering a fair verdict in one of the most historic trials in American history.
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Joe Biden’s campaign said “no one is above the law.” “There’s still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box,” said Michael Tyler, Biden’s communications director.
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Republicans rally around Trump repeating his baseless claims that the Biden administration has engaged in political persecution of the former US president. “Today is a shameful day in American history,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson. Congressman Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, lamented the verdict as a “travesty of justice.”
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Some of Trump’s advisers and family members were even more direct. “Such bullshit,” Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s eldest son, wrote to X.
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The crowds gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse erupted in simultaneous cheers, cheers and groans. A strong sense of shock and relief seemed to hang in the air with many protesters, counter-protesters and onlookers with surprised faces.
Key events
On special episode on the Guardian’s Politics Weekly America podcast, columnist Jonathan Friedland spoke with the Guardian’s US reporter Sam Levin about what the verdict means for Trump himself, as well as the upcoming election.
Listen to the full episode here.
The New Yorker has published a preview of next week’s issue, with the cover featuring a cartoon of Trump holding out comically small hands to be handcuffed. The illustration is titled “A Man of Conviction.”
The drawing was done by cartoonist John Cuneo, who illustrated number on Trump related covers for the magazine.
Interim summary: Trump has been found guilty and will be sentenced on July 11
Donald Trump became the first president in US history to be convicted of a felony. Here’s a summary of what happened:
-
Trump was found guilty on all 34 charges for falsifying business records in a criminal money laundering scheme to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.
-
The verdict came after jurors deliberated for less than 12 hours. Trump was convicted by a jury of 12 New Yorkers of felony falsification of business documents.
-
Trump will be sentenced on July 11 at 10 am ET. The sentencing date comes just days before the Republican Party formally nominates Trump for president ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
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Can Trump go to jail? Here’s what comes after the conviction.
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Trump has denied wrongdoing and is expected to appeal the sentence. “This was a rigged trial by an embattled judge who was corrupt,” Trump said at the courthouse after the verdict was read. “It was a rigged process, a disgrace.”
-
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said “the only vote that matters is the jury’s vote.” At a news conference following the sentencing, Bragg noted that “this defendant may be unlike any other in American history,” but that “at the end of the day, this sentence is the same as any other case today.”
-
Trump’s sentence has sparked a political firestorm in Washington. Republicans fiercely criticized the verdict as a miscarriage of justice, while Democrats praised the New York jury for delivering a fair verdict in one of the most historic trials in American history.
-
Joe Biden’s campaign said “no one is above the law.” “There’s still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box,” said Michael Tyler, Biden’s communications director.
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Republicans rally around Trump repeating his baseless claims that the Biden administration has engaged in political persecution of the former US president. “Today is a shameful day in American history,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson. Congressman Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, lamented the verdict as a “travesty of justice.”
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Some of Trump’s advisers and family members were even more direct. “Such bullshit,” Donald Trump Jr., the former president’s eldest son, wrote to X.
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The crowds gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse erupted in simultaneous cheers, cheers and groans. A strong sense of shock and relief seemed to hang in the air with many protesters, counter-protesters and onlookers with surprised faces.
Stormi Daniels ‘Relieved That This Case Is Now Over’
The lawyer for Stormy Daniels says she is “relieved that this case is now over,” in a statement shared by the New York Times. Daniels’ attorney Clark Brewster said:
She has always had great faith in our judicial system and in the solemn oath that jurors take in the performance of their office. No man is above the law, and the selfless hard work of each of these jurors should be respected and appreciated.
Cameras were not allowed in the courtroom during the proceedings, but a sketch artist filmed scenes as the verdict was read in Donald Trump’s criminal trial.
Lori, a woman who has been a regular fixture outside Trump’s proceedings in the past few weeks and who declined to give her last name, said:
This is the right verdict, it is right.
I think there was a preponderance of evidence that was glaring to convict him…they had witnesses and he didn’t come forward to rebut, they didn’t put him on the stand.
Maybe because he lies all the time and it would be too hard to control him.
Another bystander, Karen, was across the street from the courthouse after the news broke and shared her relief:
It’s a sign that there is something salvageable about our version of democracy… nothing is over, he’ll tie him up in the court systems forever, but we should celebrate while we can.
Just before the verdict came down this afternoon, Republican Senate candidate for Maryland, Larry Hoganposted on X defending the US trial and calling on Americans to “respect the verdict”.
Chris LaCivitaA senior Trump campaign adviser responded to Hogan, writing, “You just ended your campaign.”
It’s Jean Carrollthe writer who accused Donald Trump for sexual assault and won nearly $90 million in civil lawsuits against him, responded to the verdict by posting a photo of Stormy Daniels and the inscription:
justice!!
What’s Biden’s next move?
David Smith
Twelve jurors in New York asked their fellow Americans a simple question: Would you like to elect a convicted felon to the White House?
In Thursday, Donald Trump was convicted of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his money laundering trial, a conviction that made him the first former president to be found guilty of crimes in America’s nearly 250-year history.
It was a historic moment in which the US joined other democracies in showing the world that it was prepared to hold its political leaders accountable.
It also represents an earthquake in a presidential election where poll after poll shows Trump the marginal favorite over the incumbent Joe Biden, despite the president’s efforts to move the needle. If that doesn’t do it, maybe nothing will.
The sentencing was scheduled for July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump would become the first convicted felon to be nominated as a party’s presidential candidate. A time traveler visiting from 2014 would be staggered.
Still, the one question on Washington’s mind during the seven weeks of the often pointless trial was: Historians care, journalists care, and late-night comedians certainly care, but will it matter to voters?
Read the Guardian’s Washington bureau chief David Smith’s full analysis here.
Trump will hold a press conference tomorrow morning
Donald Trump has posted on his Truth Social site that he will hold a press conference at Trump Tower at 11 a.m. ET tomorrow.
Joan E Greve
democrats were more muted in their response to the verdict, calling the jury’s decision a reflection of the strength of the US justice system.
Michael Tyler, The Biden campaign director of communications, said:
Today in New York we saw that no one is above the law. Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed that he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain.
Senator Sheldon Whitehousethe Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, said the verdict confirmed that Trump was “unfit to lead the greatest nation in the world.”
Only in honest courtrooms was the former president unable to lie and get out of trouble. Americans trust juries for good reason.
Senator Chris Koonsa Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, added:
I commend the jurors for their service and urge all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, to accept and respect the outcome of this trial.
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