Former President Donald Trump spoke outside the courtroom after being found guilty of all 34 felony counts in the New York "hush money" trial.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee told the press outside the court, "I am a very innocent man."
“This was a disgrace, this was a rigged trial,” Trump asserted. “Our whole country is being rigged right now. This is being done by the Biden Administration in order to hurt or wound a political opponent.” "This is a rigged trial."
Donald Trump speaks outside court where he was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to hush money payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels. https://t.co/zqzQfCTEr8
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“We have a country that’s in big trouble, but this was a rigged decision right from day one, with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case,” Trump said.
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“And we’ll keep fighting we’ll fight till the end and we’ll win because our country has gone to hell. We don’t have the same country anymore. We have a divided mess. We’re a nation in decline, serious decline, millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now, from prisons and from mental institutions terrorists, and they’re taking over our country,” Trump said.
The jury deliberated for about 10 hours before handing in the verdict.
The 34 felonies relate to the falsifying of business records to cover up hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels over an alleged affair.
Trump is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
