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Trump Is Now A Convicted Felon
A jury of Trump’s peers in his ‘hush money’ trial unanimously found Trump guilty on 34 counts — meaning he’s now a convicted felon.
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It took a little over 9 hours of deliberation for a New York jury — seven men and five women — to find remorseless former twice-impeached president* Donald J. Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsification of business records for his reported scheme of trying to conceal the purpose of hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, making him the first president in U.S. history to be convicted of a felony.
In the state of New York, falsification of business records is normally classified as a misdemeanor, but because Trump and his co-conspirators were paying her off to shut her up and using it as a campaign finance plot to interfere with the 2016 presidential elections, falsifying the records was committed while concealing another crime, which enhanced the charges to felonies.
In his typical fashion, Trump pleaded not guilty and lied his ass off about it from the start. Trump is…
