i m paul gigot. a manhattan jury found donald trump guilty this week on all 34 counts of false iffying business records, the first time in history that a former u.s. president has been convicted of a felony. thursday afternoon s verdict marked a dramatic end to the almost 6-week trial, but trump vowed that the legal fight is not over. this was a rigged decision right from day one. with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never. and we will fight for our constitution. this is far from over. paul: let s bring in jim trusty, a former federal prosecutor and former donald trump attorney. welcome, jim. good to see you again. so what do you make of this verdict? well, it s not a shock, unfortunately. i mean, this is the lawfare. it s really at a its worst with. you had a politicized prosecutor who had a picked through the trash of a case that the southern district of new york specifically rejected doing that his predecessor rejected doing, but
too stupid to appreciate how brilliant his policies have been. so i think he s in real trouble. then you add his age and so forth, it s another problem. paul: this is, kyle, as i see it, probably the third or fourth such democratic freak ifout [laughter] since the start of this campaign. we had one in december and then that seemed to calm down with the president s performance in the state of the union. democrats said, aha a, he s up to the world after all. dean fill lips went nowhere. but now it s, i guess, the poll numbers that are driving this. is this just another case of the bedwetter caucus speaking up, as it s called, and they can t really do anything about it? i think that s the problem, is the guy who s in control here is president biden. it s very hard to convince an ini couple bent who has a wanted to be sitting in the in the oval office a for decades that he should go sit on his front if porch instead with a lemonade in a rocking chair. biden doesn t want to leave. now h