Former US president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump (left) has been found guilty of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election, in a case related to alleged ‘hush money’ payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, charged Trump last year with thirty-four counts of criminal behavior, alleging that the Republican politician sought “to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election”.
The 34 counts refer to 11 invoices, 12 vouchers and 11 checks of Trump’s monthly reimbursement payments to his thieving lawyer, for the $130,000 paid to Daniels. According to Bragg, this amounted to “falsifying business records”.
The truth of the matter is Trump's misdemeanors have been trumped up to bring him down.
Anyway, the jury deliberated for two days and returned the verdict just before 05:00 PM on Thursday: guilty on all counts, making Trump the first US president to ever be convicted of a felony.
Sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 11.
And Trump told reporters after the verdict was announced: “This was a rigged, disgraceful trial. The real verdict will be on November 05, by the people. And we will keep fighting, and we’ll fight till the end and we’ll win”.



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