Trump, Allies On The Right Begin Spinning His Guilty Verdicts
Republicans begin spinning historic felony convictions
Within minutes of the reading of the jury’s verdict in a New York courtroom, Donald Trump and his allies on the political right began their spin of the stunning and historic felony conviction of the first felony conviction of a former president in US history.
Trump, now the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, walked before cameras late Thursday afternoon.
He was found guilty of all 34 counts against him, with the jury of seven men and five women finding he falsified business records to hide a payment to keep quiet a porn star who alleged an extramarital affair with Trump, just prior to Trump’s first election in 2016.
“The real verdict will be November 5 by the people,” Trump said, launching into now-familiar false and baseless accusations that the trial was somehow fixed by his political opponents. “The whole country is being rigged right now. This is being done by the Biden administration in order to hurt or wound a political opponent."
“We'll fight to the end and we'll win...this is long from over,” he added.
Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro picked up on the same themes on the right-wing network.
“I want to believe that Americans believe in justice, and I think that in their gut, they realized that there is something that is very wrong here. We have gone over a cliff in America. This verdict is a verdict of someone who was forced to fight a 1,000-pound gorilla with both hands to tied behind his back,” she said, again without basis or evidence. “This was a defendant for whom crimes were created, against whom a judge was picked, that out of the or ordinary, not from the drum, but a judge that was handpicked for this defendant, who denied him the ability to fight the way he needed to fight, who brought in crimes that we have never heard of in New York before, where they had dead misdemeanors that they resurrected into felonies based upon non-unanimous verdicts of crimes that are federal over which no state court or no state judge or prosecutor has jurisdiction, and in the end, with all the smoke and mirrors, at 34 counts, and a hooker, and a guy according to a federal judge is a serial perjurer, we have convicted a former president of the United States of America. We have gone over a cliff.”
The truth is that all jurors were polled after the reading of the verdicts and all were, indeed, unanimous.
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