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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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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.
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump Bungled the Trial — A conviction wasn't inevitable. — It may not have been the trial that the country deserves, but it's the trial that we got. — On Thursday, Donald Trump became the first president in U.S. history to become a convicted felon thanks to a jury of 12 New Yorkers.
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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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Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
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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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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Reuters:
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.
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
RFK Jr. slams Trump verdict: ‘Profoundly undemocratic’ — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed the jury's verdict in former President Trump's New York hush money case Thursday, calling it “profoundly undemocratic” and warning it will “backfire” against Democrats in November.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
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 …
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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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New York Times:
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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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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Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Trump's appeal of hush money verdict to focus on Stormy Daniels testimony
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Bill Scher / Washington Monthly:
Donald Trump Should Drop Out
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Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Is Trump going to prison? What to know about the possible sentence after his conviction
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Wall Street Journal:
Biden and the Trump Trial Verdict
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emptywheel:
Trump Convicted of Fraud to Cover-up Fucking a Sex Worker
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Associated Press:
Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Wrong Case, Right Verdict
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Trump Loses a Big Battle in His Lifelong War Against Accountability
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Financial Times:
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman likely to back Donald Trump
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Politico:
Trump tries to spin guilty into gold
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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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Renato Mariotti / New York Times:
How Trump's Team Blew It
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Get Ready for Trump to Use Guilty Verdict to Win Votes
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Erin Doherty / Axios:
TRUMP FOUND GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES
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CNN:
Donald Trump found guilty of all 34 charges in hush money trial
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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.
Politico:
Manchin registering as independent in West Virginia — A longtime Democrat, Manchin's decision comes ahead of a deadline for filing as an independent in West Virginia.
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Announce Direct File as Permanent Free Tax Filing Option, All 50 States and D.C. Invited to Join in Filing Season 2025 — New Free Tool Made Possible by Resources from President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act — WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department …
New York Times:
Under Pressure, Biden Allows Ukraine to Use U.S. Weapons to Strike Inside Russia — White House officials said the president's major policy shift extended only to what they characterized as acts of self-defense so that Ukraine could protect Kharkiv, its second-largest city.
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