Donald Trump Becomes First Former US President Guilty of Crimes

May 30, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

Donald Trump was found guilty in the first criminal trial of a former US president in the nation’s history, a verdict that could reshape the political landscape five months before Election Day.

After two days of deliberation, a jury of 12 New Yorkers found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment to a porn star, a conspiracy that prosecutors said deprived voters of vital information before the 2016 election.

WATCH: Donald Trump was found guilty in the first criminal trial of a former US President in the nation’s history. David Gura reports from outside the court house in New York. Source: Bloomberg

The verdict, delivered Thursday in a dingy courtroom in Lower Manhattan, followed five weeks of vivid testimony that riveted ...

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