NEW YORK (AP) — A jury found former President Donald Trump guilty on all counts in his historic hush money trial in New York City Thursday, making him the first former U.S. president to be convicted of felony criminal charges.
Trump was accused of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential election to porn actor Stormy Daniels, who alleged she had a sexual encounter with him a decade prior.
The case centered on a $130,000 payment Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen made to Daniels near the end of the 2016 election to prevent her from going public with her story of a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump 10 years earlier in a hotel suite in Lake Tahoe.
When Trump reimbursed Cohen, the payments were logged as being for legal services. Prosecutors said this was done to hide the true purpose of the transaction with Daniels and to illegally interfere in the 2016 election. Trump’s lawyers contended the payments were legitimate and were for actual legal services.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg held a press conference after the trial verdict. Bragg said prosecutors followed facts and law "without fear or favor."
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