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.

Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict  —  Supporters of former President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution.

Visibly Distressed Putin Pals Shaken Up by Trump Verdict  —  ‘THEY WRONGED OUR DONALD’  —  Kremlin state TV propagandists couldn't hide dismay over Trump's conviction but they confirmed that Russia is still desperate for him to win back the White House.  —  Russian state-controlled media …

‘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.

A possibility many Republicans won't consider: Trump did something wrong  —  What if the indictments and the investigations were not, as Trump insists, political attacks but, instead, a valid response to Trump's actions?  —  When Alvin Bragg first announced his candidacy to serve …

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 …

Johnson urges Supreme Court to “step in” on Trump verdict … - Trump's legal team has said they plan to appeal, though they would first have to go through New York appellate courts before reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. … - “I think that the Justices on the court - I know many of them personally …

Trump will likely be allowed to vote, despite felony convictions  —  The former president is expected to remain eligible because he was convicted in New York, where felon voting laws are more lenient than in Republican-dominated Florida.  —  Thousands of Florida residents lose their right …

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Trump's Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility  —  One of the most bizarre things about the Donald Trump era has been the persistence of his aura of invincibility.  Trump, who never reads books but somehow harbors deep knowledge of what history tells us about how autocrats succeed, cultivates this aura relentlessly.

Despite conviction, Donald Trump vows to fight on  —  NEW YORK - Beginning life as a presidential candidate with a criminal conviction, Donald Trump vowed Friday to move forward by trying to convince voters his recently-completed hush money trial was a political plot.