Hush money case:
NEW YORK JURY convicted Donald Trump on all 34 charges in his hush money case on Thursday in a shocking development five months ahead of the election.where he seeks to recapture the White House.The verdict makes Trump the first criminally convicted former U.S. President but it does not prevent him to campaigning for election.The verdict is a stunning legal reckoning for Trump and exposes him to potential prison time in the city where his manipulations of the tabloid press helped catapult him from a real estate tycoon to reality television star and ultimately president. As he seeks a return to the White House in this year’s election, the judgment presents voters with another test of their willingness to accept Trump’s boundary-breaking behaviour.
Trump supporters called for riots
Supporters of former President Donald Trump, annoyed by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violence.
After Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, supporters responded with dozens of violent online posts, according to a Reuters review of comments on three Trump-aligned websites: the former president’s own Truth Social platform, Patriots.Win and the Gateway Pundit.
Some called for attacks on jurors, the execution of the judge, Justice Juan Merchan, or outright civil war and armed insurrection.
“Someone in NY with nothing to lose needs to take care of Merchan,” wrote one commentator on Patriots.Win. “Hopefully he gets met with illegals with a machete,” the post said in reference to illegal immigrants.
-Reuters
Trump’s conviction means for the election
The conviction doesn’t bar Donald Trump from continuing his campaign or becoming president. And he can still vote for himself in his home state of Florida as long as he stays out of prison in New York state.
Leading strategists in both parties believe that Donald Trump still remains well-positioned to defeat Joe Biden, even as he now faces the prospect of a prison sentence and three separate criminal cases still outstanding. In the short term, at least, there were immediate signs that the guilty verdict was helping to unify the Republican Party’s disparate factions as GOP officials across the political spectrum rallied behind their embattled presumptive presidential nominee and his campaign expected to benefit from a flood of fundraising dollars.
Trump can challenge sentence in New York appellate court
After Donald Trump is sentenced on July 11, he can challenge his conviction in an appellate division of New York state’s trial court and possibly, the state’s highest court. His lawyers have already been laying the groundwork for appeals with objections to the charges and rulings at trial.
The defense has accused the judge in the trial of bias, citing his daughter’s work heading a firm whose clients have included President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and other Democrats. The judge refused to remove himself from the case, saying he was certain of his “ability to be fair and impartial.”
-AP
Star witness Cohen says Trump verdict ‘important day’ for rule of law
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer who was a imp. prosecution witness in his trial, hailed the guilty verdict against theDonald Trump.
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