Donald Trump Found Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Trial
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A jury of Donald Trump’s peers has found him guilty on all 34 felony counts related to his 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. The historic verdict, announced Thursday afternoon, followed a six-week criminal trial—the first ever for a former US president.
All of the charges were for the falsification of business records, which stemmed from the payment orchestrated by Trump—with the help of his former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen—to suppress stories about alleged extra-marital affairs Trump had in the years before he ran for president. (Trump has denied the affairs.) Cohen and Daniels, an adult film star who received $130,000 as part of an agreement not to share details of an alleged 2007 sexual encounter with Trump, were the prosecution’s star witnesses.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump raged against the verdict.
“THIS WAS A DISGRACE—A RIGGED TRIAL BY A CONFLICTED JUDGE WHO IS CORRUPT,” Trump posted. “WE WILL FIGHT........
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