The Latest | Trump becomes first former US president to be convicted of felony crimes

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73% : ""The American people decide our elections," Sanders posted on the social platform X. "Donald Trump will be our next president.
68% : He said Trump is "doing great" when asked how the former president was doing while waiting for the jury to deliberate.
62% : Following the judge's announcement, Trump and one of his attorneys, Todd Blanche, had an animated, whispered exchange, but Blanche was smiling.
61% : Maria C. Gonzalez, a retired nurse, 67, said she wanted to show up to support Trump, who she thought made the country better.
51% : TRUMP WAITS FOR READING OF VERDICTDonald Trump is now sitting in the courtroom with his arms folded across his chest as he awaits the reading of the verdict in his hush money trial.
51% : Miller is among the aides who accompanied Trump on Thursday.
50% : Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.
49% : I guess this would change my perception of him," Gonzalez said.
48% : "Soon, though, conversation turned to the fact that Trump has appeal options and still will be formally nominated by Republicans as their presidential nominee in July as he pursues them.
48% : With the jury working in secret in a separate room, and Trump and his team holed up elsewhere in the building, reporters remain in the courtroom waiting for word -- or rather the sound -- of a new development.
46% : TRUMP ADDRESSES REPORTERS OUTSIDE COURTROOMDonald Trump addressed reporters outside the courtroom following the reading of the guilty verdict in his hush money trial.
45% : Merchan summoned Trump, his lawyers and prosecutors to the courtroom to inform them of his scheduling plans.
41% : All of us Cubans stand with Donald Trump.
41% : "The testimony in Court was amazing for the Defense!"Trump has pleaded not guilty.
41% : The panel is deciding whether to convict or acquit Trump of some, all or none of the felony counts he's charged with.
40% : Burgum was among the Republican officials who accompanied Trump to court in recent weeks as a show of support, but he was not seen inside court with him Thursday.
37% : A 'STEP TOWARD JUSTICE'Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, called the verdict against Donald Trump "a monumental step toward justice for the American people.
37% : Lara Trump said if Trump is convicted and given a sentence of home confinement, "We will have him doing virtual rallies and campaign events if that is the case.
35% : A guilty verdict would deliver a stunning legal reckoning for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as Trump seeks to reclaim the White House.
34% : The video feed resumed after the last charge was read aloud, showing Trump sitting with an expressionless stare as history was made.
34% : Trump has pleaded not guilty.
34% : Trump has pleaded not guilty.
34% : Trump has pleaded not guilty.
34% : Trump has pleaded not guilty.
33% : Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen is crucial to the prosecution's case against Trump, jurors were reminded that they can't convict the former president on Cohen's word alone.
33% : She told Fox News Channel on Thursday that Trump would still try to campaign for the presidency if he's convicted.
32% : "The real verdict," Whatley said, "will take place on November 5."Trump's sentencing has been set just days before Whatley and his fellow Republicans convene in Milwaukee, to formally nominate Trump as their presidential nominee.
31% : At the heart of the charges were reimbursements paid to Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels in exchange for not going public with her claim about a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump.
31% : "FLORIDA SUPPORTER: 'I WOULD VOTE FOR HIM 20 TIMES'MIAMI -- A few Trump supporters in Miami arrived at the iconic Cuban restaurant Versailles, where Donald Trump made a stop a year ago after pleading not guilty in the classified documents case in Florida.
30% : He said he's "an innocent man.""We'll keep fighting," Trump said.
28% : Whatley added a word-for-word echo of what Trump himself said outside the courtroom earlier Thursday after the jury rendered its guilty verdicts on 34 felony counts.
28% : NORTH DAKOTA'S BURGUM SEEN OUTSIDE OF MANHATTAN COURTROOMNorth Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, seen as one of the potential running mates for Donald Trump, was outside the courthouse in Manhattan on Thursday doing television interviews.
27% : Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records.
27% : TRUMP WILL TRY TO CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENCY EVEN IF HE'S CONVICTEDIt appears that -- if he is convicted -- a guilty verdict won't stop presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump from trying to reclaim the White House.
26% : Johnson, who leads the nation's oldest civil rights organization, said the crimes that Trump has been convicted of ought to disqualify him as a candidate for the Oval Office.
24% : "Communications director Michael Tyler said in a statement: "There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.
23% : Trump faces 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records.
23% : She claimed she had an affair with Trump, which he denies.
23% : Trump faces 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records.
23% : Trump faces 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records.
22% : "UNLESS HE'S SENT TO PRISON, TRUMP CAN STILL VOTEDonald Trump may have been convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of felons, but he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state.
21% : Johnson added: "President Trump will rightfully appeal this absurd verdict -- and he WILL WIN!"Ahead of the jury announcing a verdict, one Republican urged people to respect the legal process.
20% : Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is being tried on 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records.
19% : Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.NEW YORK (AP) -- Former President Donald Trump on Thursday was found guilty on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial.
19% : The jury also asked to rehear Pecker's testimony about a phone call he says he had with Trump about a hush money deal that the National Enquirer's parent company made with former Playboy model Karen McDougal, and about Pecker's his decision not to sell the rights to McDougal's story to Trump.
18% : Prosecutors accused Trump of falsifying internal business records to cover up hush money payments tied to an alleged scheme to bury stories that might torpedo his 2016 White House bid.
18% : The verdict is part of a "campaign to weaponize the judicial system to attack President Trump," Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement.
18% : ""Whether it's an attempt to steal an election or overthrow our government, one thing has long been apparent -- Donald Trump is unfit to represent American democracy," Johnson said after the verdict was heard on Thursday.
17% : At one point two Trump supporters chased away an older man who confronted them saying he hoped Trump would be jailed soon.
16% : One patron yelled profanity while calling Trump an "idiot.
13% : Gonzalez is excited about participating in his first national election but given the choice between President Joe Biden and Trump, he feels issues including immigration matter more.
12% : The 34 counts against Trump are all the same charge, a low-level felony punishable by up to four years in prison, though it's not clear that the judge would opt to put Trump behind bars if the jury convicts him.
10% : "A second Trump term means chaos, ripping away Americans' freedoms and fomenting political violence -- and the American people will reject it this November," Tyler said.

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