american history we really do need a new word for unprecedented. former president trump vows to appeal his historic guilty conviction. a presidential candidate found guilty on 34 counts is clearly unlike anything we ve ever seen. trump s conviction is a first. the clean sweep guilty on all 34 counts an especially strong vindication of the new york d.a. s case. and sit one that all news viewers and citizens and people around the world are actually hearing and absorbing as one fact. people can have different reactions to this legal fact, but unlike so many other civic and political feuds that deinvolve into competing claims almost from the start, there s only one legal outcome here, an outcome that is sinking in, no matter what one s views of the defendant are, and no matter where you get your information from, your phone or the internet or newspapers or tv news where may 30, 2024 played out with the same big verdict news no matter which station you watch. to that end
we have a moment of extraordinary history. it is a moment of unbelievable history unprecedented. we ve said that so many times involving donald trump. but truly this moment involving a former us president and the legal system, the criminal justice system in this country of evan tents concept got a consequence. judge merchan is on the bench. we do expect the jury to come forward with their verdict in ten minutes or so. so we are really in the closing minutes and again, we don t know what the verdict is going to be. we know it can t be a hung jury because they ve only been doing it for lesson 12 hours. and so that s not enough time to say, hey, we can t come to a conclusion. they it could be 12, it could be 34 counts of acquittal. it could be 34 counts of guilt and conviction. it could be. and one of our experts at least is going out on a limb and said that she thinks that it s possible that it s a mixed verdict because otherwise, why would you need 30? three minutes to go ov
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