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Trump Found Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Trial

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 5/30/2024 5:17:42 PM

Former president Donald Trump was convicted on Thursday by a New York jury on 34 felony charges for falsifying business records, making him the first president in U.S. history to become a convicted felon. Over the past six weeks at the state courthouse in lower Manhattan, the prosecution sought to demonstrate that Trump, his former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen, and National Enquirer publisher David P* participated in a conspiracy to defraud voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election by paying off women to conceal embarrassing stories about the then-presidential candidate’s sexual history without properly recording those payments as campaign-finance expenses.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 5/30/2024 5:19:38 PM (No. 1727948)
Show trial. Kangaroo court. Lawfare. Vote Trump in November!
62 people like this.

Reply 2 - Posted by: marlon 5/30/2024 5:19:44 PM (No. 1727949)
Ok now I'm going to become a Democrat and vote for Trump 34 times!
65 people like this.

Reply 3 - Posted by: Moritz55 5/30/2024 5:19:45 PM (No. 1727950)
Things have gotten to a point where I don’t recognize my country anymore.
82 people like this.

Reply 4 - Posted by: itsonlyme 5/30/2024 5:20:08 PM (No. 1727951)
The fix was in from the VERY beginning.
77 people like this.

Reply 5 - Posted by: gramma b 5/30/2024 5:24:06 PM (No. 1727953)
The only crime here is what that prosecutor and judge have done to our legal system
70 people like this.

Reply 6 - Posted by: VAPMAN 5/30/2024 5:26:48 PM (No. 1727955)
This has me really really outraged and I will do everything I can to re elect President Trump.
53 people like this.

Reply 7 - Posted by: jalo1951 5/30/2024 5:27:33 PM (No. 1727957)
I went to bed still believing in the United States and woke up in South America. We are doomed if this is not reversed. If you want to be worried about our democracy now is the time. FJB F all of them.
47 people like this.

Reply 8 - Posted by: Nimby 5/30/2024 5:28:50 PM (No. 1727959)
Time for the country to vote the Democrats out!!
29 people like this.

Reply 9 - Posted by: bighambone 5/30/2024 5:28:52 PM (No. 1727960)
Not a surprise, the criminal justice system has been highly politicized, and in the future any wimpy Republicans after Trump who dare to run for President in the future can look forward to going to court in a highly Democrat District to defend themselves against leftist and progressive Democrat brought criminal persecutions.
25 people like this.

Reply 10 - Posted by: Jen103143 5/30/2024 5:29:34 PM (No. 1727961)
I am sick to my stomach! This needs to be appealed to in record time! I’ll vote for Trump even if he’s in jail!
43 people like this.

Reply 11 - Posted by: thefield 5/30/2024 5:29:40 PM (No. 1727962)
I am stunned ny the blatant crookedness.
29 people like this.

Reply 12 - Posted by: Bmoc 5/30/2024 5:29:49 PM (No. 1727963)
They have set the world on fire.
27 people like this.

Reply 13 - Posted by: OhioNick 5/30/2024 5:29:57 PM (No. 1727964)
When the Founding Fathers established our three branches of government, they anticipated a very weak judicial branch. That's why there's so few "checks and balances" on judges. In reality, many Democratic judges in our country have become tyrants because they know they won't be punished or removed from the bench, despite their illegal or unconstitutional actions. It's next to impossible to remove a crooked judge, and that needs to change.
33 people like this.

Reply 14 - Posted by: TXknitter 5/30/2024 5:31:36 PM (No. 1727965)
War Room LIVE best coverage of this right now.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: red1066 5/30/2024 5:32:59 PM (No. 1727966)
What law was broken? What crime occurred? Anyone?
23 people like this.

Reply 16 - Posted by: BarryNo 5/30/2024 5:33:14 PM (No. 1727967)
Democrats have demonstrated tyranny. If any harm comes to Trump, the Civil War is ON. If they use this to try to disenfranchise him on the ballot, the Civil War is ON. He is OUR choice. Denying him is denying us. Unlike the 1st American Civil War, there will be no mercy shown to traitors.
24 people like this.

Reply 17 - Posted by: Hazymac 5/30/2024 5:33:44 PM (No. 1727969)
Okay. Send him to jail now, and make sure he wears the three piece suit: handcuffs in front, attached to belly chain, and ankle restraints that make the "criminal" walk in ploverlike steps. Then take another mug shot. This BS has got to end. And NY state has signed their economic death warrant. We want none of them down here in Florida. (Es)screw them forever, I'll never go back. Maybe the USA needs a breakup after all. Leftism is mental illness.
25 people like this.

Reply 18 - Posted by: JonR 5/30/2024 5:36:54 PM (No. 1727972)
Conclusive proof that the United States is now a banana republic! Beware the law of unintended consequences!
24 people like this.

Reply 19 - Posted by: czechlist 5/30/2024 5:38:51 PM (No. 1727975)
considering the time spent in "deliberation" (including breaks and general bs-ing) vs 34 charges the jurors averaged less than 30 minutes on each charge. No way 12 people completed it all that quickly. they just wanted to wrap up, go home and not feel threatened by fellow manhattanites.
28 people like this.

Reply 20 - Posted by: FJB 2022 23 24 5/30/2024 6:13:27 PM (No. 1728005)
efin sobs! That judge is corrupt as is the prosecution, I hope they all come to a horrible end and rot in hell. Trump will win on appeal, and that judge should be removed and disbarred! Ass*ol*s, all of them. I am just livid!
12 people like this.

Reply 21 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 5/30/2024 6:15:20 PM (No. 1728006)
The country has descended into a dictatorship.
10 people like this.

Reply 22 - Posted by: BevNJ 5/30/2024 6:16:43 PM (No. 1728008)
A wise man once said, “Everything the left touches turns to s***.” As an American and a lawyer (who graduated from Thomas Jefferson’s alma mater in the 70s), I am saddened even more than angry. Like #10, I truly do feel sick to my stomach. (To those of you who say now Trump’s going to win in a landslide: How many states will now disqualify him from the ballot? You got enough write-in votes for DJT?) That reversible error was committed over and over and over again, and that he will get the conviction overturned on appeal, does not matter one whit. The Demonicrats accomplished their goal. They must be so proud. And the Never Trumpers are popping champagne corks right along with them. Bastids. Es ist vollbracht.
12 people like this.

Reply 23 - Posted by: Maggie2u 5/30/2024 6:22:35 PM (No. 1728011)
We all know what the numbers 9/11 mean, we now need to refer to this day as 5/30. The saddest day in our country's history when a politician was found guilty solely because he defeated the marxist party's candidate in 2016 and would likely defeat the marxist party's candidate in 2024.
13 people like this.

Reply 24 - Posted by: Geoman 5/30/2024 6:23:13 PM (No. 1728012)
One has to question whether the two attorneys on the jury panel were pre-selected by the DA and his pet judge, as "jury enforcers," like the hired goons that De Niro had surrounding him for his over-the-top anti Trump /pro Biden campaign speech on Tuesday.
12 people like this.

Reply 25 - Posted by: Krause 5/30/2024 6:26:23 PM (No. 1728017)
The dirty Dems may have just woken a sleeping giant.
14 people like this.

Reply 26 - Posted by: snakeoil 5/30/2024 6:37:40 PM (No. 1728029)
I feel like refusing to pay federal income tax. But, I hate sleeping with bed bugs so I will continue. I no longer have a country.
7 people like this.

Reply 27 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 5/30/2024 6:50:43 PM (No. 1728037)
NY lefty jurors and you two lefty attorneys on the jury, shame on you for going along with this fraud. Shame on you. Bragg and Merchan, your days for remorse for what you did to this country are coming. So, America, what are WE Americans going to do about it? As you can see, Amerika is in the room now.
6 people like this.

Reply 28 - Posted by: Historybuff 5/30/2024 7:10:20 PM (No. 1728048)
Bragg better get busy charging Stormy Daniels with extortion and Michael Cohen with grand larceny.
5 people like this.

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