At 4:43pm East Coast time, the jury notified Judge Juan Merchan that they had arrived at a verdict in Donald Trump’s 34-count election fraud trial.
They came into court and announced they held Trump guilty on all 34 counts of the indictment.
The saga that has now led to the first criminal conviction of a United States president began with Trump’s alleged affair with Daniels in 2006, before beginning to turn into something criminal as his first presidential campaign drew to a close.
The rule of law has been shown to exist even in a case involving a former American president.
Trump is now the first American president in history to be a “convicted felon.” This is in addition to him being the first American president to be impeached twice.
We are now going to find out how the American people deal with this fact, which is no longer presented to them as a hypothetical.
More later.
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Eighty million voters spoke from the ballot box in 2020. Twelve citizens spoke from the jury box today.
Evidence is growing that America has not, in fact, lost its true voice.
Justice was served on a cold plate. Well done to the jury and court.