From WNYC Studios, I'm Brian Lehrer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Friday, May 31st.

The 12 everyday jurors vowed to make a decision based on the evidence and the law and the evidence and the law alone.

Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant,

Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records

in the first degree to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election.

Manhattan, DA, Alvin Bragg, focusing on the jury after the 34 felony convictions of Donald

Trump yesterday, as Trump, the verdict tried to focus on

anything but.

Our whole country is being rigged right now. This was done by the Biden administration in order

to wound or hurt an opponent, a political opponent. And I think it's just a disgrace. And we'll keep fighting.

We'll fight till the end and we'll win because our country's gone to hell.

Donald Trump yesterday, with us now, Andrea Bernstein, who covered the trial from inside the

courtroom for NPR. She was previously the host of the

WNYC podcast, Trump, Inc., about the intersection of Trump's business interests and the public interest,

also the Will Be Wild podcast about the events leading up to January 6th, and she is author of the book,

American oligarchs, the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power.

Andrew has been coming on with us, as some of you know on various days off from the trial.

They usually took Wednesdays off from testimony.

So, Andrea, thanks for coming on again now that it's done.

Andrew, you were inside as the verdicts were read.

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