Americans including Donald Trump have reacted after the former president was found guilty by a Manhattan jury on all 34 counts in the historic hush money criminal case against him, on Thursday, May 30.
An infuriated Trump, 77, addressed reporters moments after the jury, five women and seven men, delivered its decision.
DONALD TRUMP REACTS
‘The real verdict will be Nov. 5 by the people … I’m a very innocent man,’ the ex-US president told reporters, blaming the ordeal on President Biden.
‘I’m fighting for our country, I’m fighting for our constitution,’ Trump said. ‘We’re a nation in decline.’
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MORE ABOUT THE CHARGES
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was accused of fudging company documents tied to claims he had his then-fixer Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness, made a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 election to silence her story about having an affair with Trump.
THE FIRST US PRESIDENT TO BECOME A CONVICTED FELON
He was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, felonies that each carried a possible sentence of up to four years behind bars, in the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office — making him the first US president to become a convicted felon.
