It is a historic conviction in the United States: the trial jurors were unanimous on Thursday evening. Former US President Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying documents to hide a $130,000 payment to former porn actress Stormy Daniels to avoid a sex scandal before his 2016 election.
This verdict makes Donald Trump the first ex-president in the history of the United States to be found criminally guilty. He will not receive his sentence until July 11, and his lawyer Todd Blanche has already stated that he will appeal immediately afterwards. The idea, for him, is to buy time, because he faces four years in prison for each of the 34 offenses of which he has been convicted – although he probably will not go behind bars, because he has never been convicted before, and that the offenses for which he was convicted are among the least serious offenses in the State of New York.
“The real trial will take place on November 5”
Donald Trump should therefore instead receive a fine, a summons or probation. But in any case, prison would not prevent him from being a candidate or even from being elected. Denounces him in a press release “a rigged trial“and claims to be”very innocent“. He adds that the real trial will take place on November 5, the day of the American presidential election.
His supporters, almost the entire Republican Party, are behind him, and say the same thing, denouncing a “shameful day for the country” and affirming that Trump’s only crime is to be a candidate for the White House again. On Joe Biden’s side, we recall that no one is above the law, and the campaign team of the Democratic president outgoing calls to vote to avoid a return of his opponent to the Oval Office.
