Previous President , Donald Trump , was convicted in a , Manhattan , court on Thursday of all 34 charges of misleading company records in connection with a payment to video actress , Stormy Daniels , on the day of the 2016 vote.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, is now the second former president previously convicted of a murder. At imprisonment on July 11th, 2018, he could face up to four years in captivity, though supervision might be available as well. The ruling may become appealed.
Outside the court, Trump proclaimed himself a “very honest person”.
” This was a disgrace”, he said. This trial was rigged by a crooked judge in conflict. This was a manipulated, terrible trial. The true verdict did be , Nov. 5 , by the people … Our country’s gone to hell. We’re a country in collapse — major drop”.
Trump was charged with conspiring to conceal a sexual encounter between Daniels and Trump in 2006 by paying her$ 130,000 in cash and later fabricating information to claim it as legitimate expense. He faced 34 criminal matters related to fake invoices, checks and record comments.
Before giving the determine a message on Thursday afternoon, the jurors deliberated for about 10 days.
The jury spent more than four days listening to evidence, including from Daniels and from , Michael Cohen, Trump’s former prosecutor who made the reward.
Trump has frequently criticized the deliberations taking place atop the court.
” The whole thing is skewed”, he said Wednesday.
Trump’s security staff, led by , Todd Blanche, argued that Cohen was a convicted fraudster whose evidence could not be trusted.
Trump allegedly paid off Daniels to keep quiet in order to illegally affect the 2016 election results.
The judge also heard witness from , David Pecker, the former editor of the , National Enquirer, who testified that the store made a decision in 2015 to support Trump’s plan. The Enquirer paid$ 150, 000 to , Karen McDougal , to keep her from going public about a yearlong affair she had with Trump, Pecker testified.
On Tuesday,  , Robert De Niro , showed up outside the courthouse at a press conference organized by the Biden campaign to denounce the former president.
The former president’s criminal trials are the first of four, but they might be the only ones before the November election. Trump is also accused of attempting to overturn the election’s results in two instances and of illegally retaining classified documents.
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