The jury has come to a verdict on Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial. The former US president has been found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records, which has been dubbed the “hush money” trial. On 30 May, a jury found Trump – who is currently rallying for a second, non-consecutive term in office – to hide the payment during his 2016 election campaign.
This makes Trump the first former president of the US with a criminal conviction. Daniels claimed in her Peacock documentary that Trump’s previous lawyer Michael Cohen made the payment on the former president’s behalf to keep quiet about an . Trump has vehemently denied the allegations.
His sentencing hearing is set to take place on 11 July, just four days before the Republican National Convention, in which the party will officially nominate him for President. Trump is facing a maximum of up to four years imprisonment, and probation at a minimum – though prosecutors have not said what penalty they will award. If Trump decides to appeal the ruling, experts say the process could take at least one year, meaning he would likely remain free during the decision time, as per the .
Following the trial, the former president claimed that the trial was “rigged” and a “disgrace”. He said: “This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt. The real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here.
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