‘The real verdict will be given by the people on election day’ Trump reacts to his conviction by jury
Former US President, Donald Trump, has reacted to his conviction by a Manhattan jury on all 34 counts in the historic hush money criminal case against him, on Thursday, May 30.
An angry-looking Trump, 77, told reporters moments after the jury delivered its decision that he was innocent and that the real verdict would be given by the people on election day.
“The real verdict will be Nov. 5 by the people … I’m a very innocent man,” he said, as he blamed President Biden for his ordeal.
“I’m fighting for our country, I’m fighting for our constitution,” Trump said. “We’re a nation in decline.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was accused of forging company documents tied to claims he had his then-fixer Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness, made a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 election to silence her story about having an affair with Trump.
He was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, felonies that each carried a possible sentence of up to four years behind bars, in the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office — making him the first US president to become a convicted felon.
