Trump becomes first former US president to be convicted of criminal offence
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The jury at Donald Trump's hush-money trial in New York found him guilty on all 34 counts. Mr Trump said the case was "rigged" and the real verdict would come in the presidential election in November. President Biden said it shows no one is above the law. He said Mr Trump continued to pose a great threat to democracy, and accused him of running what he called an increasingly unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution. But the Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, called the verdict "a shameful day for America."
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a special edition of the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.3 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and this edition is published in the early hours of Friday the 31st of May. |
| 0:11.3 | Donald Trump has become the first former US president to be convicted of a criminal offense. |
| 0:17.2 | The jury at his hush money trial in New York found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. |
| 0:24.0 | He said the case was rigged and the real verdict would come in the presidential election in November. |
| 0:29.0 | He'll be sentenced in July. |
| 0:41.0 | So Donald Trump has become the first US president in history, current or former, to be found guilty in a criminal trial. |
| 0:44.0 | After more than 11 hours of deliberation, |
| 0:46.3 | just as they were about to be sent home, |
| 0:48.4 | the jury sent a note to the judge |
| 0:50.4 | to say they had reached their verdict. Our correspondent Neditaufique was |
| 0:54.3 | outside the court as the result came through. |
| 0:56.7 | Donald Trump found guilty on count one, Sumi. We are going through the rest of those counts but already this is |
| 1:07.3 | Absolutely historic Donald Trump losing this case the jury finding the prosecution proved beyond a reasonable |
| 1:16.4 | doubt that he tried to corrupt the 2016 election by creating a conspiracy and then falsifying business records to cover it up. |
| 1:25.0 | Netta, that guilty on count two, Sue me, guilty on count three. |
| 1:30.0 | Let's remember. |
| 1:32.0 | That just stopped me in my tracks. I can hear the cheering tell us what's happening. |
| 1:36.1 | There is an eruption from the... |
| 1:42.1 | Nedat Tauphique outside the court in New York talking to Sumi Somaskanda on BBC |
| 1:47.9 | television as the verdict was read out. Well in the end the former US |
| 1:52.4 | president was found guilty on all 34 |
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