'Real Verdict On Nov 5': Trump Defiant After Historic Hush Money Conviction, Supporters Rally Behind Him | Watch

After Donald Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday, the Republican presidential nominee denounced the conviction as “a rigged trial by a conflicted judge,” adding that the “real verdict” will be decided on the November 5 election day by the American people.

His reaction came after a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. The jury pronounced Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts he faced. “This was a rigged, disgraceful trial. The real verdict is going to be Nov. 5 by the people, and they know what happened here, and everybody knows what happened here,” Trump said outside the courtroom shortly after the verdict was read.

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‘Real verdict’ on election day

Trump Campaign Video

Trump released this video shortly after he was found guilty in the New York City hush money trial. “This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the war mongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists.” “We will cast out the communists, Marxists, and fascists. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will route the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all.”

‘Never Stop, Neve Give Up’ —  Trump Supporters React

Republicans and Trump supporters across the country reacted to the stunning conviction Thursday of the former US President in his landmark criminal trial in New York. An emotional Trump supporter, outside the New York courtroom, said Trump is the only person who has stood up for him in his life after the former president was found guilty in NYC. Trump “just won the election, I’ll tell you that much,” the man was quoted as saying by Ukrainian-American Journalist Oliya Scootercaster.

Biden Campaign Reacts

The Biden campaign wasted no time slamming Trump and making a plea for campaign donations, minutes after the guilty verdict in hush money trial. “In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law,” Biden campaign spokesman Michael Tyler said in a statement on Thursday evening.

“There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.” “A second Trump term means chaos, ripping away Americans’ freedoms and fomenting political violence – and the American people will reject it this November,” Tyler added.

What GOP Lawmakers Said

Republican lawmakers reacted with immediate fury on Thursday as a New York jury convicted former President Donald Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election, speaking out with near unanimity in questioning the legitimacy of the trial and how it was conducted.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said it was a “shameful day in American history” and the charges were “purely political.” Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance said the verdict was a “disgrace to the judicial system.” And Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 House Republican, said that the decision was “a defeat for Americans who believe in the critical legal tenet that justice is blind.”  Many Republicans echoed his repeated assertions that it was a “rigged, disgraceful trial.” He is expected to quickly appeal.

“The only thing more 3rd-world than the NY courtroom was the sham trial that played out inside: second-rate judge, third-rate prosecutors, fourth-rate “star” witness. The judge specifically instructed the jury that they *didn’t have to agree on the crime to convict. Shameful,” Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy said in a post on X.