Trump Found Guilty By Jury On All 34 Counts In Hush Money Trial

NEW YORK CITY — A Manhattan jury has convicted former President Donald J. Trump on all 34 felony counts in his criminal hush money trial.

The guilty verdict was returned after about two days of deliberations, which began late Wednesday morning. By Thursday afternoon, the jury alerted the judge that a decision was reached.

Sentencing is set for July 11.

"This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt," Trump said Thursday afternoon following the verdict.

"The real verdict is going to be Nov. 5 by the people, and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here ... our whole country is being rigged right now, this was done by the Biden administration in order to wound, to hurt a political opponent."

At the heart of the charges are reimbursements paid to Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels in exchange for not going public with her claim about a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump.

Prosecutors say the reimbursements were falsely logged as “legal expenses” to hide the true nature of the transactions.

The charges Trump faces are punishable by up to four years in prison. He has denied all wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty.

The case is the first of Trump’s four indictments to reach trial and is the first-ever criminal case against a former U.S. president.

-With reporting from the Associated Press.