“This is a shame,” said the tycoon and main Republican candidate in the presidential elections that will take place in November of this year, where he will compete against the current president Joe Biden. “The real verdict will be on November 5th,” Trump added.
After knowing the result reached unanimously by the 12 members of the jury in the trial that took place in New York, the former president He called the guilty verdict a “shame.” “It has been a trial set up by a corrupt and conflictive judge,” she added.
Jury found Donald Trump guilty in historic US trial
After deliberating for two days, The 12-member jury announced that it had found Trump guilty on all 34 counts those he faced. Unanimity was required for any verdict.
Trump looked on indifferently as the jurors were polled to confirm the guilty verdict.
Judge Juan Merchan set the sentence for July 11three days before the start of the Republican National Convention in which Trump’s formal nomination for the presidency is expected.
Merchan thanked the jurors for their service. “No one can force you to do anything you don’t want to do. The choice is yours,” Merchan said.
The verdict plunges the United States into uncharted territory before the presidential election of November 5, in which trump will try to regain the White House against the Democratic president Joe Biden.
Donald Trump will appeal the sentence in the New York trial
The ruling puts USA in uncharted political territory, but Doesn’t stop Trump from running for presidenteven in the unlikely event that the judge Juan Merchan, who will announce the sentence on July 11, sentencing him to prison.
The judge’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11, days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump will receive the party’s formal nomination to face Democratic President Joe Biden on November 5.
The former president’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, announced on Thursday night that will appeal the guilty verdict “as soon as possible” against his client.
“We will appeal as soon as possible,” Blanche told CNN, adding: “The process in New York is that there is a ruling, and then we appeal from there.”
Source: Ambito
