Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty in the first criminal trial of a former US president. The charges relate to the Stormy Daniels affair, in which Trump is accused of trying to buy the silence of the former porn actress.
Trump denies the charges and called the trial rigged, blaming the Biden administration for the verdict. After two days of deliberations, a jury unanimously found Trump guilty of all 34 crimes of falsification of accounting documents in relation to the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels.
The verdict does not invalidate Trump’s candidacy in the upcoming presidential election, scheduled for November 5. During the trial, Daniels detailed her alleged sexual relationship with Trump in 2006, which Trump denies. The prosecution argued that the payment to Daniels was an illegal campaign expense.
Trump did not testify during the trial and has denounced it as a sham orchestrated by his political opponents. Despite the guilty verdict, Trump remains defiant and vows to continue fighting. The trial marks a historic moment in American politics, as it is
