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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Jury Finds Donald Trump Guilty. What Now?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The GOP's presidential candidate is convicted of 34 felonies in New York, for falsifying business records in connection with 2016 hush money to Stormy Daniels. Could Trump's defense team have done anything differently? How serious are his prospects for appeal? Has Joe Biden already said too much about the trial? And how is this verdict likely to affect the 2024 election? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:38.0

A New York jury finds Donald Trump guilty of 34 bookkeeping felonies related to hush money paid to

0:45.7

Stormy Daniels in advance of the 2016 election.

0:49.4

But what are Donald Trump's chances on appeal and how is this likely to affect the November election and

0:55.0

his campaign against the incumbent president Joe Biden.

0:58.6

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues,

1:04.0

columnist Bill McGurn, and editorial board member

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Kate Batchelder, O'Dell.

1:09.0

After a six-week trial and two days of deliberations,

1:12.0

the jury was just about to be dismissed at

1:15.5

4.30 on Thursday when the news came that the 12 jurors had reached a

1:19.9

unanimous verdict it was shortly thereafter read out in the courtroom guilty on 34

1:25.3

felonies for falsifying business records in 2017. Let's listen to a clip of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg explaining his view of this verdict.

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