As the first former president charged with a criminal offense, Trump also now becomes the first former president to be convicted of a crime.
The jury has found former President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money criminal trial. Donald Trump came out in the hallway following the verdict, spiting angry, calling it "a rigged trial, a disgrace.""They know what happened here, everyone knows what happened here," Trump said. "Its ok. I'm fighting for our country, I'm fighting for our constitution. We will keep fighting until we win. Because our country has gone to hell.
Former President Donald Trump is continuing to rail against his hush-money trial and proclaim his innocence. Lara Trump said if Trump is convicted and given a sentence of home confinement, "We will have him doing virtual rallies and campaign events if that is the case. And we'll have to play the hand that we're dealt," according to a transcript of the interview.
Donald Trump continued to complain about the hush money trial as he left court Wednesday after the first day of jury deliberations. Before dismissing the jury for the day, the judge emphasized his standard instruction about the jury not looking up information related to the trial."See you tomorrow morning at 9:30," the judge said before the jury exited the courtroom.Before the parties resolved the first note, the jury sent another note asking "to rehear the judge's instructions."
"IT IS RIDICULOUS, UNCONSTITUTIONAL, AND UNAMERICAN that the highly Conflicted, Radical Left Judge is not requiring a unanimous decision on the fake charges against me brought by Soros backed D.A. Alvin Bragg," he wrote. "A THIRD WORLD ELECTION INTERFERENCE HOAX!"If the jurors disagree, they keep deliberating. If they get to a point where they are hopelessly deadlocked, then the judge can declare a mistrial.
It's anyone's guess how long the jury in Donald Trump's hush money case will deliberate for and there's no time limit either. The jury must evaluate 34 counts of falsifying business records and that could take some time. A verdict might not come by the end of the week. "What is happening here is weaponization at a level that nobody's seen before ever and it shouldn't be allowed to happen," Trump said.
"As a juror, you are asked to make a very important decision about another member of the community," Judge Juan M. Merchan said, underscoring that - in the eyes of the law - the jurors and Trump are peers. Jurors will not receive copies of the instructions, but they can request to hear them again as many times as they wish, Merchan said.Trump leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes as Merchan told jurors that reading the instructions would take about an hour.Donald Trump will not be the only big name appearing before a judge in lower Manhattan on Wednesday - fallen movie mogulrelated to the retrial of his landmark #MeToo-era rape case.
Last Monday, defense lawyers filed a motion asking the judge to dismiss the case, arguing that prosecutors had failed to prove their case and there was no evidence of falsified business records or an intent to defraud. "This case, at its core, is about a conspiracy and a cover-up," prosecutor Joshua Steinglass told jurors during summations that stretched from early afternoon into the evening.
"The name of the game was concealment, and all roads lead inescapably to the man who benefitted most: the defendant, former President Donald J. Trump," Steinglass said. "When you're a celebrity, they let you do it. You can get away with anything," Trump could be heard saying on the tape. He pointed to testimony from David Pecker and others, to the recorded conversation in which Trump and Cohen appear to discuss the Karen McDougal deal, and to Trump's own tweets.
Karoline Leavitt, the campaign press secretary, called the Biden campaign "desperate and failing" and "pathetic" and said their event outside the trial was "a full-blown concession that this trial is a witch hunt that comes from the top."Biden campaign deploys actor Robert De Niro, Jan. 6 first responders near Trump's trial
"That is absurd," Blanche told jurors, pointing to "all the other evidence you heard about how carefully President Trump watches his finances."Joe Biden's campaign announced on Tuesday that it would hold an event with "special guests" as closing arguments in Donald Trump's hush money trial are underway.
"The consequences of the lack of proof that you all heard over the past five weeks is simple: is a not guilty verdict, period," Blanche said. At the heart of the charges are reimbursements paid to Michael Cohen for a $130,000 hush money payment that was given to porn actor Stormy Daniels in exchange for not going public with her claim about a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump.
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