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excerpt. Today a look at Trump's first comments on the exit.

Today a look at Trump's first comments on the campaign trail following his guilty verdict,

plus Israel offers a ceasefire proposal and Mexico elects a new president.

Beginning life as a presidential candidate with a criminal conviction,

former President Donald Trump vowed yesterday

to move forward by trying to convince voters that his hush money trial was a political plot.

I caught up with USA Today Justice Department correspondent Bart Chanson for a look at how Trump is talking

about the conviction in its aftermath on the campaign trail.

Bart, thanks for wrapping on.

Thanks for having me.

So Bart, in the wake of this verdict, Donald Trump is now working to convince voters that the trial was politically motivated.

What is he saying on that note?

He gave a lengthy statement at Trump Tower on Friday morning,

basically reciting all of the criticism that he'd used in the hallway statements to

reporters during the trial. He didn't take the stand himself to testify. He

said there were too many concerns that the prosecutors would delve into past business deals or litigation that he's had and so his lawyer said, well, you know, why bother with that?

But he has been sharply critical of the judge in the case, of the

judge not moving the case to a different jurisdiction where there'd be a

different pool of potential jurors. He's

criticized a number of the decisions that the judge made such as putting

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