Trump continues to his 2024 campaign amid felony conviction and fundraising. / Photo: Reuters
But after taking to the podium, he launched into an extraordinary 35 minutes of insults, non-factual claims and non-sequiturs that reflected his seething anger.Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over his trial, is a"tyrant," Trump said, claiming that Merchan"literally crucified" witnesses. On Thursday, a jury found him guilty on all 34 charges of falsifying business records to hide a hush money payment meant to silence adult star Stormy Daniels from publicising an alleged sexual encounter that he feared would be fatal to his 2016 presidential campaign.
Prosecutors successfully laid out a case alleging the hush money and the illegal covering up of the payment was part of a broader crime to prevent voters from knowing about Trump's behaviour just as he was about to face Hillary Clinton.Merchan set sentencing for July 11 — four days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump is due to receive the party's formal nomination.Donald Trump is now the first current or former US president to become a convicted criminal.
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