Trump to hold news conference Friday after being convicted in hush money trial

NEW YORK -- A time aft a New York assemblage delivered a historic blameworthy verdict successful Donald Trump's transgression hush wealth trial, the presumptive Republican statesmanlike nominee volition apt look to formed the condemnation and his run successful a caller light.

The erstwhile president is expected to clasp a quality league astatine Trump Tower precocious Friday morning.

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Following his condemnation connected Thursday, Trump angrily denounced the proceedings arsenic a "disgrace," telling reporters helium was an "innocent man."

His supporters were speedy to echo those sentiments portion galore of his critics - governmental and different - applauded the verdict.

Trump was convicted of 34 felony charges successful a strategy to illegally power the 2016 predetermination done a hush wealth outgo to a porn histrion who said the 2 had sex. The hush wealth proceedings and consequent condemnation people the archetypal clip a erstwhile U.S. president has ever been tried oregon convicted successful a transgression case.

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He inactive faces 3 different felony indictments, but the New York lawsuit was the archetypal to scope proceedings and apt the lone 1 up of the November election.

Judge Juan M. Merchan scheduled Trump's sentencing for July 11. The charges are punishable by up to 4 years successful prison, though the punishment would yet beryllium up to Merchan. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg declined to accidental whether prosecutors would question situation time.

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TRUMP'S CONVICTION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE 2024 ELECTION

Donald Trump's condemnation successful his New York hush wealth proceedings is simply a stunning improvement successful an already unorthodox statesmanlike election with profound implications for the justness strategy and possibly U.S. ideology itself.

But successful a profoundly divided America, it's unclear whether Trump's presumption arsenic idiosyncratic with a felony condemnation volition person immoderate interaction astatine each connected the 2024 election.

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Trump remains successful a competitory presumption against President Joe Biden this fall, adjacent arsenic the Republican erstwhile president present faces the imaginable of a situation condemnation successful the run-up to the November election.

In the abbreviated word astatine least, determination were contiguous signs that the unanimous blameworthy verdict was helping to unify the Republican Party's disparate factions arsenic GOP officials successful Congress and successful authorities capitals crossed the state rallied down their presumptive statesmanlike nominee, portion his run expected to payment from a flood of caller fundraising dollars.

REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS RALLIED TO TRUMP'S DEFENSE

Several Republican lawmakers reacted with fury to Donald Trump's felony conviction connected Thursday and rushed to his defence - questioning the legitimacy of the proceedings and however it was conducted.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said it was a "shameful time successful American history" and labeled the charges arsenic "purely political."

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has been 1 of Trump's astir predominant allies, said, "This verdict says much astir the strategy than the allegations."

And portion Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell refrained from attacking the justice oregon jury, helium said the charges "never should person been brought successful the archetypal place."

Many GOP lawmakers, including Johnson, visited the courthouse successful New York to enactment Trump during his transgression trial.

UNLESS HE'S SENT TO PRISON, TRUMP CAN STILL VOTE

Donald Trump whitethorn person been convicted of a felony and reside successful Florida, a authorities notorious for restricting the voting rights of felons, but he tin inactive ballot arsenic agelong arsenic helium stays retired of situation successful New York state.

That's due to the fact that Florida defers to different states' disenfranchisement rules for residents convicted of out-of-state felonies. In Trump's case, New York instrumentality lone removes their close to ballot erstwhile incarcerated. Once they're retired of prison, their rights are automatically restored - adjacent if they're connected parole, per a 2021 instrumentality passed by the state's Democratic legislature.

"If a Floridian's voting rights are restored successful the authorities of conviction, they are restored nether Florida law," Blair Bowie of the Campaign Legal Center wrote successful a station explaining the authorities of law, noting that radical without Trump's ineligible resources are often confused by Florida's analyzable rules.

THE FIGHT IS FAR FROM OVER

Donald Trump's condemnation Thursday connected 34 felony counts marked the extremity of the erstwhile president's historical hush wealth trial.

Now comes the sentencing and the imaginable of a situation sentence. A lengthy appellate process could follow, particularly arsenic Trump's ineligible squad has already been laying the groundwork for an appeal.

And each the while, the presumptive Republican statesmanlike nominee inactive faces 3 much transgression cases and a run that could spot him instrumentality to the White House.