231231 this is cnn. the world s news the next verdict will come on election day. i m michael smerconish and philadelphia donald trump is the first former us president to be a convicted felon. but will the verdict help or hurt is 2024 campaign non-white voters may have the answer. here s a part of what some of the callers and the popular morning radio program, the breakfast club had to say after the verdict faster, like trump s 30 trust the system at all. i feel their railroad and body system and you see that when she walked in the courtroom to be guilty, you gonna be guilty? how can anybody blackboard provide it trump? were you i d rather have president wright, who s going to be honest and show me a whole, then have a president who s going to allow me to try to get me up, to get my vote breakfast club, host charlemagne, the god is going to join me in just a moment in the most recent poll of battleground states, which included third-party candidates, biden had only 49% support
public office by unlawful means, you may consider the following violations of the federal election campaign act, otherwise known as feca, the falsification of other business records or violation of tax laws. now, i m putting on the screen one port portion of the verdict slips so that people can see it was a binary choice on each of the 34 counts. and here s my question based on the verdict slip, trump can truthfully say he doesn t know for what he was convicted. do you agree? i do agree. and i think we all have that issue now, that verdict slip that we just looked at is deceptively simple in its layout. it s a binary choice, guilty, not guilty. yes. no. but in fact, the charges here are much more complicated. so think of them like if it was a triple decker sandwich, there s three actual layers to each of the 34 four counts here. the first layer is a new york state violation of falsifying business records, which is a misdemeanor. the middle layer is while they