Photos: Trump convicted in hush money case
Former President Donald Trump leaves the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his hush money trial on Thursday, May 30.
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In pictures: Trump convicted in hush money case

Updated 0113 GMT (0913 HKT) May 31, 2024

Former President Donald Trump leaves the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his hush money trial on Thursday, May 30.
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For the first time in history, a former US president has been convicted of a felony.

A jury on Thursday found Donald Trump guilty on 34 charges of falsifying business records. Prosecutors alleged that the former president engaged in a cover-up scheme to hide reimbursement payments made to his former attorney, Michael Cohen, who had paid hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels to stop her from going public about a past affair with Trump before the 2016 presidential election. Trump has denied the affair.

Judge Juan Merchan set Trump's sentencing date for July 11. Trump is the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for this year's election, and Thursday's verdict does not prevent him from being elected president again. He claimed the charges against him were politically motivated.

"We didn't do anything wrong. I'm a very innocent man," Trump said after leaving the courtroom. "This was a rigged, disgraceful trial. The real verdict is going to be November 5, by the people, and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here."