Tonight former President Trump lashing out the day after the historic verdict

convicting him of 34 felonies. The Trump legal team bowing to appeal

questioning the fairness of the judge and jury. Mr. Trump claiming without evidence that the New York

court acted in conjunction with the White House and the DOJ in a rigged trial.

President Biden in his first comments calling the claims dangerous.

But will it change the political landscape with the election rapidly approaching?

Mr. Trump raking in campaign donations in the hours after the verdict, and what about voters as a nation makes

sense of a historic moment our team coverage ahead. Also tonight the new legal

defeat for abortion in Texas the state Supreme Court rejecting the latest challenge

to one of the country's most restrictive abortion laws. President Biden urging

Hamas to accept a new Israeli peace proposal saying it's time for the war to end,

why there is new optimism tonight.

Just in the sentence for Michelle Traconis, convicted of helping her boyfriend plot to kill his a strange wife.

OJ prices are at record highs what's driving them up.

This is NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.

Good evening and welcome.

Donald Trump today unrepentant, defiant, and casting himself as the aggrieved one,

as newspapers across the country proclaimed a New York jury's finding of

guilt against the former president in his falsified documents trial.

Today at Trump Tower the very place the crimes at the heart of the case took place

Mr Trump stood before gathered reporters and some supporters in what appeared to be an

unscripted monologue he railed against the judge.

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