Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts at his hush money trial, becoming the first criminally convicted US president in history.
He sat emotionless as the jury convicted him on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election. Daniels says that they had a sexual encounter in 2006, which Trump denies.
Trump, the presumptive Republican candidate in the 2024 race, is the first convicted felon to run for the White House.
“I am a very innocent man,” Trump said in the hallway of the courthouse after the verdict was read.
He railed against the trial calling it “rigged” and “a disgrace”, before saying that the “country was going to hell”.
The jury of 12 New Yorkers deliberated for approximately 10 hours at the Manhattan court before handing down the verdict.
Trump will return to Manhattan criminal court on July 11th for sentencing. The Independent
