Welcome to the beat. I am Ari Melber. We begin tonight in a sense where we left off last night and how it fits with some important brand new developments today because

Donald Trump now convicted felon stands atop these three criminal enterprises which we've been

reporting out for you we made this based on our legal analysis and reported for the

first time last night the underlying facts are known but here they are together the leaders here have been convicted of serious crimes

across quite a long range of time.

Trump's new conviction is still sinking in across the nation and the process will play out he's awaiting

sentencing. It completes this picture of criminality that surrounds him because of the

people he picked and whom he often stood with and they stood by him as long as they defied police and law

enforcement and defended him, they stayed together. This band of quite literal convicted felons,

criminals.

So while last week was understandably first focused on the conviction of one man,

in order to see the broad reality, you also have to see how his conviction did cap off these years of crimes by many people

across the different enterprises. Only now is he joining those other aides in the life of a convicted felon and learning about what that entails.

So this was the most significant verdict of many unanimous verdicts across the three enterprises

on the screen there, and I'm just going to say this briefly

before I turn to the new stuff it's a conviction that comes after juries and

independent probes led to the convictions of his longest serving advisor his

deputy campaign chair his campaign chair his top

personal lawyer his top campaign lawyer several other key lawyers to White House

AIDS the CFO of his company the company itself liable for fraud and now his own

criminal business fraud I could say it's

slower or faster but it's a lot. Now some of those people have gone through

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