Now, good morning.

It's Friday, 31st of May, 2024.

June is upon us.

Summer is nearly here. You wouldn't think it. Although we've been told

this morning by the weather people that an area of high pressure is going to bring warm sunshine

this coming weekend, particularly to the northwest of the UK. Thanks be to the baby Jesus. Yeah, I've had enough of the

rain. You well this morning you are. Good. This is the papers. I'm Richie Allen. It's a podcast. No more,

no less. There's very little to it. Very little. It's very sparse. It's low on entertainment, but high on effort. Let me go straight to the front pages. These are the headlines adorning the UK dailies. Let's start with the times. Well, well, well. Trump found guilty in hush money trial is the headline.

The Times sports a photograph of a rather dejected and disheveled former US president, probably.

Probably the next US president, looks terrible, emerged from the Manhattan

court to say it was a disgrace, it's a witch hunt, I'm fighting for the future of America.

You're a fucking bullshitter. It's all you ever have been. A puppet in the extreme.

This makes me laugh.

So if you haven't been following any of this,

the jury came back.

Trump had been charged with concealing payments,

isn't that right, or a payment,

made by his lawyer. he instructed his lawyer to boy the silence of a former porn star shortly before the election back in 2016.

Trump had, they'd had a roll in the hay. And he was charged with trying to cover this up to enhance his chances of winning the election.

And he was found guilty.

34 counts of falsifying business records, there you are.

The first time a former or serving US President has been convicted of a crime.

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