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A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records Thursday, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes Trump the first former president in American history to be convicted of a felony.

He may not lose support at all, but he depends on the support of many young and nonwhite voters who haven’t voted for him in the past and who might be likelier to leave his side.

What is the point of crowing?” one Democratic aide said of the news. “As an important fact, it makes its own point.”

MSNBC Legal Contributor Katie Phang breaks down what happened during the historic day 23 of former President Donald Trump's hush money trial where he was found guilty on all 34 counts.

The end result, now, is that Donald Trump is a convicted felon awaiting a possible jail sentence. He is unlikely to face such a sentence during the course of the likely years-long appeal. If he is elected again in November, he may never face justice for his crimes.

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The district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, became the first prosecutor to bring a criminal case against a United States president. On Thursday, he won.

"This was a rigged, disgraceful trial," the former president said, after being found guilty on all 34 felony counts.

Clinical psychologist and niece to Donald Trump, Mary Trump, talks to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Alex Wagner, Lawrence O'Donnell, Joy Reid, and Ari Melber about her uncle's guilty verdict in the New York criminal trial: "This is a moment he has been dreading his entire life.

After a rather pregnant pause—the jurors had to fill out some forms, a lot of forms, actually, it turned out—Donald Trump was charged as guilty on all Cheers exploded in downtown Manhattan near the courthouse where he was tried,

The phrase “tea leaves” was heard incessantly on television news networks as they waited out a Manhattan jury's deliberations in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial

Former President Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, but legal experts have told NPR that it's unlikely he will face incarceration.

For seven weeks, Donald Trump was on trial in his hometown of New York City as 12 Americans weighed the evidence against him in a hush money case before ultimately voting to convict him, making him the first former president to be convicted of a felony.

Marylanders had mixed reactions after former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 charges in his "hush money" trial.

Donald Trump is already trying to turn his historic criminal conviction into a campaign cash windfall.

Donald Trump has been found guilty on 34 felony counts, making him the first former US president to be convicted of crimes: Listen to the Big Take.

Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records. Trump, who was indicted in connection with a hush money payment made to an adult-film actress ahead of the 2016 presidential election, is the first former president convicted of a crime.

The site was hit by an outage as Google searches for "Donald Trump donation" spiked in the wake of the verdict.

Former President Donald Trump called the hush money trial "rigged" while speaking outside the courthouse Thursday just moments after learning he was found guilty on 34 counts. "This was a disgrace," Trump told reporters. "This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt. It’s a rigged trial, a disgrace."

For the first time, a judge will consider whether a former president should be put behind bars for a felony conviction.

Republican allies of former President Trump expressed outrage after a New York jury found him guilty on all 34 charges in his hush money criminal trial.  Thursday marked a first in American

Truth Social’s parent company viewed Trump’s criminal conviction as a realistic enough possibility that it announced a contingency plan.

Legal experts say its unlikely Trump could face a prison sentence following his guilty hush money verdict, but his charges warrant the possibility.

Mr Trump's lawyers will almost certainly appeal the verdict, which does not prevent him from running for president.

Even as a New York jury considered Donald Trump’s fate, his rich backers stood behind him. Major Wall Street donors including Blackstone’s founder Stephen Schwarzman decided to firmly back the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump,

As the hush money case heads to the jury, it’s likely to be the only criminal indictment against Donald Trump to come to trial before November.

Trump was found guilty Thursday of 34 felony charges for falsifying business records in an effort to keep information from voters ahead of the 2016 election. The former president’s sentencing hearing on July 11 and the conditions he’s placed under could impact the first debate between Trump and President Joe Biden on June 27 on CNN.

We, the jury, have reached a verdict.” After countless motions and seven weeks of trial that saw 22 witnesses take the stand, Trump could no longer outrun his fate. A jury of 12 New

The former president left court as a free man after being convicted by a jury of 34 felony counts on Thursday.

He becomes the first former - or serving - president to be convicted of a crime, as he bids to return to the White House.

Celebrities from both sides of the political aisle responded to former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict Thursday.

Despite an unprecedented felony conviction, former President Donald Trump will barrel ahead with his effort to oust President Biden.

Former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict in the New York hush money case is poised to energize his loyal base and motivate Republicans, and some independents, in key swing states to turn out in big numbers to support him in the presidential election.

A Manhattan jury on Thursday found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying 34 business records to aid or conceal "another crime."

Trump's former primary rivals came to his aid after the former president was found guilty in a hush money payment scheme trial.

The first conviction of a former president raises a series of novel issues.

Former President Donald Trump has three key issues he can argue on appeal to overturn his conviction in his New York hush money trial, including that prosecutors never identified an underlying felony to the resurrected misdemeanor bookkeeping charges that had lapsed.

After deliberating for a little more than a day, a Manhattan jury on Thursday found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying 34 business records to aid or conceal "another crime," an intent that turns what would otherwise be misdemeanors into felonies.

Former President Donald Trump’s website for campaign donations crashed within minutes of his guilty verdict being announced on Thursday.

Shares of Trump Media & Technology Group, the owner of social networking site Truth Social, slumped Thursday after former President Donald Trump was convicted in his hush money trial.

Americans across the country reacted to to former President Trump's conviction in New York with a mixture of outrage, jubilation and shoulder-shrugging.

The Manhattan jury that found Donald Trump guilty Thursday needed to unanimously find that the ex-president fudged business records with the “intent” to cover up another crime.

Donald Trump would be an unsympathetic defendant even in a friendlier venue than a Manhattan courtroom. He defies authority, and neither judges nor juries take kindly to that. He’s now been convicted of 34 felony charges involving an arcane confluence of ...

Stefanik argues that ‘whoever made the assignment intentionally selected Acting Justice Merchan’ to increase the chance of a Trump conviction. Why the former president is likely to be convicted.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said his office did its "job" after a jury in the NY v. Trump case found former President Trump guilty on all counts.

Donald Trump has consistently called the Manhattan criminal case against him a “rigged” politically motivated witch hunt.

On Thursday afternoon, jurors reached a guilty verdict of 34 counts of falsification of business records in the former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in New York. Jurors deliberated over the course of two days before reaching their verdict on ...

As if Donald Trump didn’t have enough legal problems and bad juju, now he has another headache to deal with: a lawsuit filed yesterday in federal court in New York accusing him (along with ...

Former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich joins 'Jesse Watters Primetime' to discuss former President Trump's conviction on all counts in his criminal trial and its impact.

The panelists found that Trump, 77, falsified business records throughout 2017 by lying that he was paying his then-lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen for phony “legal services” when he was actually reimbursing him for the hush money that kept Daniels from speaking out about having sex with Trump inside a Lake Tahoe hotel room in 2006.