angeles and this is america s late news, auction is at night. fox news at night. it s time for dancing in the streets. trace: brand-new reaction to donald trump being found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records period the verdict, no surprise being celebrated by the left. supporters of the former president have a much different take. what was going through your head? is. i almost fainted. it s disgusting, i m telling you men. what they are doing to this man is disgusting. it wouldn t happen to anyone else. trace: the verdict appears to be igniting the trump base even more. campaigns is the digital fundraising system is overwhelmed but the former president appears to be unshaken by the outcome, vowing to continue the fight all the way to the ballot box. this was a rig, disgraceful trial with the real verdict is going to be november 5th by the people. trace: we have team fox coverage. we begin with nate foy, he s live outside the new york co
for those of you just joining us today for the first time in american history a former president of the united states has been criminally convicted in a court of law. just hours ago, a jury of 12 ordinary americans found donald trump guilty on all 34 felony counts he faced in the state of new york. those charges of falsifying business records stem from trump s cover-up of an alleged extramarital affair with adult film star stormy daniels and his effort to keep that information from the voters. the story first broke back in 2018 when the wall street journal dropped a bombshell report at the time too about the hush money payment to daniels to prevent her from going public. now, it took years the justice system can work slowly at time, that s how sometimes it works, but it took years for prosecutors to bring a case forward so. long, in fact thargs it was dubbed a zombie case. that is until alvin bragg took the extraordinary step of indicting a former president. he was the fi
presumptive republican nominee, defiant tonight, proclaiming his innocence, calling the process rigged, and accusing president biden of backing a political persecution as he addressed cameras outside the courtroom. the biden campaign saying, quote, we saw that no one is above the law. and how will a nation driven by political division react? our complete historic coverage, coming up. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening and welcome. guilty on all counts. donald j. trump, the 45th president of the united states, was found guilty late today in a new york courthouse on all 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to a porn star just before the 2016 election. the stunning verdict was delivered by a manhattan jury of seven men and five women, who deliberated for two days, making mr. trump the first former american president to be convicted of a crime. he remains the presumptive republican nominee in the close race for preside
david: the jury, seven men and five women, quicking the former president on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records involving the hush money payment to stormy daniels. trump sitting stone-faced in court, shaking his head at times as the jury delivered its verdict. tonight, when trump will be sentenced. dan abrams is here on what trump potentially faces. what could the judge decide when it comes to sentencing? and what does this mean for the race for president? the reaction tonight inside trump s campaign. aaron katersky house the courthouse, mary bruce at the white house, rachel scott with reaction on the hill. the other news, the major turn in the war in ukraine. the biden administration giving ukraine permission now to use american weapons to strike inside parts of russia. back in the u.s. in the west tonight, the verdict in the trial of doomsday cult leader chad cabdaybell, accused of kilg his first wife and his new wife s two children. new york city s time
the trump foundation for a 15-year tax fraud. now he has this one. that is a big deal. and i think we should recognize the skill, the talent, and the drive that undergirds everything that happened here. i am, however, also looking at the way trump allies, wanna be trump allies and the republican party writ large is reacting to this. i agree with you, joy. the specter of a republican front-runner being crowned the nominee four days after the sentencing, becoming a felon, is something we never thought he would see in americans history. the reality is the trump team, the rnc. republicans across the country think this is a gift to them. eric trump saying today, may 30th, 2024, might be remembered as the day donald j. trump was re-elected. and that is not to say that s necessarily what s going to happen, but it points to this incredible schism in american culture and politics where one, i think earth one, as rachel maddow likes to call it, understands what happened here as a tes