mr trump has since repeated his claims, without evidence, that the prosecution was politically orchestrated and the trial was rigged. let s look at how we got to thursday s verdict. the trial officially began on april 15, after a lengthy jury selection process. over the next six weeks, jurors heard testimony from his former business partners including long time lawyer michael cohen and ms daniels herself. the jury of seven men and five women deliberated for two days, eventually finding him guilty of all 3a felony charges. mr trump is expected back in the courtroom onjuly 11 to be sentenced he faces up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each of those counts. mr trump says he will appeal the verdict, as our north america correspondent reports. this is where it all began ten years ago, and today, donald trump returned here to begin his fightback. scrapping the teleprompter with its scripted remarks, he spent a0 minutes ad libbing and railing against his opponents, h
in exchange for basically going away. he did so, and president ford did so, as a way to have a moment of national healing. but of course nixon wasn t charged. so it is a bit of an imperfect parallel. the other parallel people have discussed is eugene debs was the candidate for the socialist party in 1920, when he ran from jail, the only other candidate, not that trump will necessarily be in jail, but the only other candidate that has come close. what sort of mark do you think this guilty verdict puts on the office of the presidency itself? i think there are two different ways to look at it. one, the mark that if trump loses, he is a former president that has been convicted. therefore he would have among the worst