Donald Trump, convicted felon
Post Reports
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
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A New York jury convicted former president Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his hush money trial. Tonight on “Post Reports,” the scene in the Manhattan courtroom. And what comes next.
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Donald Trump is now the first former U.S. president to be tried and found guilty of a crime, after a New York jury convicted him on Thursday of falsifying business records in his hush money case.
The trial lasted seven weeks. The 12-person jury unanimously agreed on the verdict after deliberating for two days, finding that Trump falsified records to cover up a $130,000 payment made to an adult-film actress before the 2016 election to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with him years earlier.
Politics reporter Isaac Arnsdorf was in the courthouse as the verdict was read. Tonight on “Post Reports,” he talks with host Elahe Izadi about that moment, and what comes next.
Today’s show was produced and mixed by Ted Muldoon, with help from Rennie Svirnovskiy. It was edited by Renita Jablonski.
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm walking out of the courthouse right now where we just had the verdict. |
| 0:08.0 | President Trump came to address reporters in the hallway immediately after. He came outside the |
| 0:14.5 | court and huddled with some of his advisors sort of like calling a play, maybe |
| 0:19.2 | talking about what they were going to say and oh hang on making sure that I don't get in trouble I think |
| 0:28.0 | the motorcade is leaving. |
| 0:30.3 | Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. |
| 0:36.3 | The announcement came after 5 o'clock this evening in a Manhattan courtroom. |
| 0:41.1 | And outside of the courtroom, this was the scene. |
| 0:44.0 | And outside of the courtroom, this was the same. |
| 0:47.0 | Oh, oh, oh, you're easy! |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, yeah. Trump has become the first former US president convicted of a crime. |
| 0:58.0 | His sentencing is scheduled for July 11th. |
| 1:05.0 | From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:08.7 | I'm Elahay I Zadi. |
| 1:10.6 | Back again today to capture this extraordinary development in American history. |
| 1:15.0 | We're going to begin our coverage right now and continue our analysis tomorrow with a special edition of the campaign moment. |
| 1:27.5 | Washington Post National Political reporter Isaac Arnstorf was in the courthouse as the verdict was read in what's been dubbed the |
| 1:35.5 | hush money trial which started six weeks ago. |
| 1:38.8 | Hi Isaac. |
| 1:39.8 | Hi Isaac. |
| 1:40.8 | Isaac as someone who has reported on Donald Trump for a long time and I wanted to start by asking you what was your own reaction was when the verdict was read what was going through your mind? |
| 1:52.0 | Well we had a little bit of a roller coaster at the end because the judge came out at 415 and said, |
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