Twelve jurors in New York have presented their fellow Americans with a simple question: are you willing to elect a convicted criminal to the White House?
On Thursday, Donald Trump was convicted of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush-money trial, a verdict making him the first former president to be found guilty of felony crimes in America’s near 250-year history.
Sentencing was set for 11 July, just days before the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, where Trump would become the first convicted criminal to be anointed a party presidential nominee.
Trump benefited from the fact TV cameras were not allowed into the courtroom, reducing the drama and spectacle offered by the Watergate hearings or the OJ Simpson trial.
A parade of Republicans, including the House speaker, Mike Johnson, came to the court to show their fealty to the president, with most of the fanboys wearing a Trump suit, white shirt and crimson tie.
Trump, who has recently been tempting fate by talking a lot about Al Capone and Hannibal Lecter, inevitably emerged from the court on Thursday to declare, frowning, that “it was a rigged trial, a disgrace”.
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Twelve jurors in New York have presented their fellow Americans with a simple question: are you willing to elect a convicted criminal to the White House?
On Thursday, Donald Trump was convicted of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush-money trial, a verdict making him the first former president to be found guilty of felony crimes in America’s near 250-year history.
Sentencing was set for 11 July, just days before the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, where Trump would become the first convicted criminal to be anointed a party presidential nominee.
Trump benefited from the fact TV cameras were not allowed into the courtroom, reducing the drama and spectacle offered by the Watergate hearings or the OJ Simpson trial.
A parade of Republicans, including the House speaker, Mike Johnson, came to the court to show their fealty to the president, with most of the fanboys wearing a Trump suit, white shirt and crimson tie.
Trump, who has recently been tempting fate by talking a lot about Al Capone and Hannibal Lecter, inevitably emerged from the court on Thursday to declare, frowning, that “it was a rigged trial, a disgrace”.
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