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Jacob Kaye / Queens Daily Eagle:
Queens man convicted — Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal he feared would ruin his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election.
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Live Updates: Trump Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Case — Donald J. Trump, the former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee, was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a case stemming from a payment that silenced a porn star.
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Axios:
America's seething right … - To Democrats, the unanimous conviction by a jury of Trump's peers is a stamp of accountability they've been pursuing for years — the ultimate proof that no one is above the law. — To Republicans, it's a mockery of the justice system engineered for one purpose …
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Trump's appeal of hush money verdict to focus on Stormy Daniels testimony — Donald Trump's near-certain appeal of his historic conviction on criminal charges in New York is likely to focus on porn star Stormy Daniels' salacious testimony about her alleged sexual encounter with the former U.S. president …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Elon Musk Is Absolutely Raging About the Trump Verdict — TOTAL CONVICTION — The tech mogul vented that “anyone is at risk” if a former president can be convicted over “such a trivial matter.” — Elon Musk criticized the verdict that made Donald Trump the first former American president …
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Šejla Ahmatović / Politico:
Trump's European allies leap to his defense after guilty verdict — Nothing can separate Donald Trump from the love of Viktor Orbán. — The Hungarian prime minister backed Trump on Friday morning after the former U.S. president was found guilty on 34 counts in a criminal trial held in New York City.
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
‘I Want To See Lists of Which Democrats Are Going to Prison’ — It's a different world than the one we woke up in yesterday: Donald Trump has been convicted on all charges in his New York hush money/business records trial. The rest of the cases against him might not be wrapped up before the November election—or ever, if he wins.
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Is Trump going to prison? What to know about the possible sentence after his conviction — Washington — Former President Donald Trump has now been convicted in the New York “hush money” criminal trial, immediately raising a lot of questions and launching the case into uncharted territory …
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Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Donald Trump Should Drop Out — Convicted felon Donald Trump's first words after the historic jury verdict were predictably defiant: “The real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people.” — The Biden-Harris campaign's communication director issued a statement (perhaps written …
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Bloomberg:
Wall Street Billionaires Are Rushing to Back Trump, Verdict Be Damned — A growing number of financial elites are throwing their weight behind Trump, who was found guilty in the first criminal trial of a former US president. — Before 12 New Yorkers branded Donald Trump a felon …
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emptywheel:
Trump Convicted of Fraud to Cover-up Fucking a Sex Worker
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Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Trump aide declares Larry Hogan's campaign dead
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Politico:
Trump tries to spin guilty into gold
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Associated Press:
Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden and the Trump Trial Verdict
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Trump Loses a Big Battle in His Lifelong War Against Accountability
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
TRUMP FOUND GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Wrong Case, Right Verdict
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Renato Mariotti / New York Times:
How Trump's Team Blew It
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David Axelrod / CNN:
How Robert De Niro's advocacy for Biden backfired
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Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:
Biden, Democrats react to Trump's guilty verdict: ‘No one is above the law’
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Financial Times:
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman likely to back Donald Trump
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Get Ready for Trump to Use Guilty Verdict to Win Votes
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CNN:
Donald Trump found guilty of all 34 charges in hush money trial
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump guilty on all counts in New York criminal trial
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Lisa Rathke / ABC News:
Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change — Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
Joe Manchin leaves the Democratic Party, files as independent — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) officially left the Democratic Party on Friday and registered as an independent. — Why it matters: Manchin, who flirted with an independent presidential bid earlier this year, has said he's not running for Senate re-election.
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
Karl Rove Warns That a Guilty Verdict Could Cost Trump Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — Fox News contributor and veteran political strategist Karl Rove said that a guilty verdict in presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's hush money trial could cost him the key swing states of Wisconsin …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Deadly End to Wild Knife Rampage Livestreamed on YouTube — CAMERAS ROLLING — Graphic video of the incident shared online shows police shooting at the suspect. — A man attacked several people with a knife in the city of Mannheim in southwestern Germany on Friday morning, police said …
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Politico:
Biden secretly gave Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia with US weapons — It's a major reversal that will help Ukraine to better defend its second-largest city. — The Biden administration has quietly given Ukraine permission to strike inside Russia — solely near the area of Kharkiv …
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