The former US president was found guilty Thursday at his criminal trial in New York for hidden payments to an adult film star, an earthquake for the former US president in the midst of his race for the White House.
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Correspondent in the United States
By Maurin PicardPublished on 05/31/2024 at 06:27
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LRightly there would be a before and after May 30, just as there was a December 7 (1941), a November 11 (2001) or a January 6 (2021). The meaning of history, the formal significance of the verdict rendered Thursday, at the end of a breathtaking legal final, prefigure a new political era in the United States, the contours of which remain undecided: will federal institutions emerge strengthened from standoff imposed by a populist tribune, or have they suffered irreparable erosion?
Donald Trump, 77, Republican candidate for a second presidential term, was found guilty of 34 charges brought against him by the New York courts: falsification of commercial documents to conceal the payment of $130,000 to a film actress X, Stormy Daniels, in order to avoid a sex scandal just before the 2016 presidential election.
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