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1:20 PM ET, May 31, 2024

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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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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.
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: MSNBC
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
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 …
Andrew Solender / Axios:
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 …
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 …
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 …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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David Jackson / USA Today:
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.
Bloomberg:
Wall Street Billionaires Are Rushing to Back Trump, Verdict Be Damned
Discussion: Business Insider
Reuters:
Trump says he will appeal historic conviction
Greg Sargent / New Republic:   Trump's Stunning Guilty Verdict Shatters His Aura of Invincibility
Šejla Ahmatović / Politico:
Trump's European allies leap to his defense after guilty verdict
Discussion: Fox News and Semafor
New York Times:
Live Updates: Trump Guilty on All Counts in Hush-Money Case
John F. Harris / Politico:
Guilt Complex: Trump's Felony Convictions Are a Big Political Problem
Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
Is Trump going to prison? What to know about the possible sentence after his conviction
Wall Street Journal:
Biden and the Trump Trial Verdict
emptywheel:
Trump Convicted of Fraud to Cover-up Fucking a Sex Worker
Associated Press:
Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes
Stephen Neukam / Axios:
Trump aide declares Larry Hogan's campaign dead
Politico:
Trump tries to spin guilty into gold
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.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and IJR
Eleanor Klibanoff / The Texas Tribune:
Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion laws  —  The court ruled against 20 women who said they were denied medically necessary abortions, saying the medical exceptions in the law were broad enough.  —  The Texas Supreme Court has unanimously rejected the most significant challenge …
 
 
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Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
Karl Rove Warns That a Guilty Verdict Could Cost Trump Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania
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