The jury has found the former president guilty of falsifying business records during the 2016 campaign
A New York jury ruled on Thursday that the former US president had falsified business records during the 2016 election campaign.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, charged Trump last year with 34 counts of criminal behavior, one for every invoice, voucher and check involved in repaying his then-lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 “hush money” payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Bragg alleged that paying Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair amounted to the Republican seeking “to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from American voters before and after the 2016 election.”
Trump, who is running for re-election against President Joe Biden, has long argued that the prosecution is a politically motivated “witch hunt.”
