Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 30, 2024 in New York City. The jury is entering day two of deliberations in Trump’s hush money trial today. The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first of his criminal cases to go to trial. — on all 34 felony charges in his hush money trial — makes him the first former or sitting president ever convicted of a crime.
“The verdict should surprise no one,” said Baugh. “A politically motivated prosecutor and a hostile judge set the trial up for so many prejudicial errors. President Trump will have his opportunity to appeal and I am confident that a fair hearing will expose and resolve these issues.”House Speaker Mike Johnson called it a “shameful day in American history.”
The sentencing date — just four days before the Republican National Convention where the party officially picks its presidential nominee — allegedly shows the trial “has been marred by political bias since day one,” said Randall Avila, the executive director of the Republican Party of Orange County.