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MANHATTAN—Kim Sabot, 60, drove in from Long Island, New York, and even booked a hotel room because she wanted to be present when the Manhattan Criminal Court case against President Trump was adjudicated.
“It’s history in the making,” Ms. Sabot told The Epoch Times.
Wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) baseball hat and waving a MAGA flag, Ms. Sabot was one of a group of supporters who were on hand today in lower Manhattan to protest against Mr. Trump’s conviction.
Minutes after the jury returned a guilty verdict in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, an influx of donations to his presidential campaign as an apparent show of support caused his donation page to temporarily become unavailable.
A jury found the former president guilty on May 30 in a case in which President Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal non-disclosure payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels as part of an attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election in which he was a candidate.
Within minutes of the jury returning the verdict, President Trump’s donation page displayed a 500 error stating “something went wrong,” leading to widespread speculation of a tidal wave of donations underway, possibly out of a combination of support for the former president and outrage at the guilty verdict.
A mix of cheers and boos erupted outside a Manhattan courthouse on May 30 as news broke of former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 counts of falsification of business records with the intent to conceal another crime.
And the ensuing reactions from legal analysts were just as mixed. While some expressed agreement with the verdict, other reactions ranged from disgust to dismay.
“It’s a sad day,” Harvey Kushner, chair of the Criminal Justice Studies department at Long Island University, told The Epoch Times.
A Manhattan jury took fewer than 12 hours to return a verdict in former President Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial, finding him guilty of 34 counts of falsification of business records with the intent to conceal another crime.
The former president’s conviction makes him the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime.
Short of a successful appeal, he could now be facing such penalties as jail time, probation, or fines.
