all right, everyone, it s 4:00 in new york. the extraordinary moment when donald trump went from disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted ex-president liable for sexual abuse and defamation to suddenly, in an instance, disgraced, convicted, twice-impeached, four times indicted ex-president liable for sexual abuse and defamation. it s just the beginning of the beginning, the start of a long legal odyssey for donald trump. and because the republican party has followed him willingly down to the rabbit hole toward autocracy, the country has to grapple with it as well. having spent the trial in an environment completely out of his control, defendant donald trump will now be subject to the rules, the demands, and the processes of the criminal justice system, just like any other american citizen, who s been convicted of a felony. his right to vote, even on a ballot that bears his name is likely to survive only because of a quirk of the law in his current home state of florida
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good evening, donald trump was convicted on 34 felony counts. our special coverage of this unprecedented verdict continues. i m ari melber here with my colleagues. may third, 2024 is now a day etched in history. it was 4:30 p.m. when the jury in new york versus trump reached its verdict. the jury told the court triggering a process which unfolded over a roughly 36 minutes as the defendant, lawyers, and reporters returned to the courtroom. around the nation, people received alerts. a verdict was in. on msnbc as you can see, nicole wallace reported this verdict was imminent. and that this jury, which was tested in unusual ways and heard over 20 days of testimony and deliberated over nine hours, this jury s work was done. it had not been delayed. and, jury s work and its findings were not deadlocked. they reached a unanimous decision filling out the legal forms tabulating each felony count signed by the anonymous foreperson who read out the verdict to the court. with no cameras
let s have echo alternate universe in which the civil penalty didn t happen. and these criminal convictions did not happen. from your sense of how he movese through the world and how he deals with humiliation and failure, what do you think he has left to do that he can do in response to this that we should be prepared for? he is going to blame everybody other than himself. judge merchan is corrupt. judge engoron is corrupt. michael cohen is a liar, a felon. a rat and everything else he has been calling me for over six years. he will blame everybody else other than himself. he does not understand the concept of accountability. somewhere along the line, i guess, his parents didn t teach him that there are consequences for actions. on the consequences question. it struck me, i was in the courtroom one of the days you were testifying. there was this line of people who had come to support donald trump orientation and to be vice president or something. they want to be what you
president trump will speak and hold a news conference very soon. we ll carry it in its entirety. you recognize the place, trump tower in manhattan. this follows the historic guilty verdict against trump in a new york courtroom yesterday. millions of trump supporters and people who celebrated his loss yesterday will hear from a man who led the country in better times, even with a pandemic. it is a juxtaposition to current president biden s high-priced economy, the border crisis, failing foreign policies, which included the deadly withdrawal from afghanistan that cost 13 american lives and billions of dollars in military assets left on the ground in the hands of the enemy. trump s legal team says the path forward is just beginning. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. we heard from both the president, former president and his defense attorney, todd blanche, that this is far from over. i think it is just a disgrace and we ll keep fighting. we will fight unt