The former president of the United States donald trump has been found guilty of falsifying documents to silence the porn actress Stormy Daniels with the aim of protecting his presidential run in 2016. This has been decided by the jury in charge of the verdict in the criminal trial that was held in New York, in which Trump has been declared guilty of the 34 charges to which he faced.
With this verdict, Trump becomes the first former president of the United States to be convicted in a criminal trial. The crimes Trump faced could cost him up to four years in prison.
Prosecutors have charged Trump with a total of 34 counts of falsifying business records and argue that he concealed the purpose of payments he made to his former fixer, Michael D. Cohen.
They have alleged that the payments were disguised as ordinary legal expenses when in reality Trump was reimbursing Cohen for the silence agreement. $130,000 that the intermediary closed with porn star Stormy Daniels to silence her story of a sexual relationship.
The jury was made up of a total of seven men and five womenof which a total of four requests were made: three are about Pecker’s testimony, since according to prosecutors it was a key part of disappearing news that could harm Trump during the 2016 elections.
After hearing the jury’s verdict, Donald Trump has reiterated that he considers himself “innocent“, calling the outcome of the trial “a disgrace.”The actual verdict will be on November 5“, he added, alluding to the US elections in which he will face Joe Biden.
And now that?
Now, Trump must wait for the ruling in the case. The judge in the case, Juan Merchán, must approve the verdict and issue the final sentence, something that is usually a mere formality. Normally it usually takes a few weeks to be closed, but in other cases it can take months, although everything indicates that the sentence is known on July 11just before the Republican convention.
The maximum sentence for the crime of falsifying business records is one to four years in prisonit is unlikely that a person without a criminal record could end up in jail in a situation like the one Trump is experiencing.
Trump can still appeal the conviction by presenting arguments to the judge that were already rejected before the trial began, as well as arguing that Merchán has not given him a fair trial for making legal errors. This verdict does not prevent Trump from running in the November 5 electionseven being able to take the oath from prison on the day of his hypothetical inauguration.
Source: Lasexta
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