i m paul gigot. a manhattan jury found donald trump guilty this week on all 34 counts of false iffying business records, the first time in history that a former u.s. president has been convicted of a felony. thursday afternoon s verdict marked a dramatic end to the almost 6-week trial, but trump vowed that the legal fight is not over. this was a rigged decision right from day one. with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never. and we will fight for our constitution. this is far from over. paul: let s bring in jim trusty, a former federal prosecutor and former donald trump attorney. welcome, jim. good to see you again. so what do you make of this verdict? well, it s not a shock, unfortunately. i mean, this is the lawfare. it s really at a its worst with. you had a politicized prosecutor who had a picked through the trash of a case that the southern district of new york specifically rejected doing that his predecessor rejected doing, but
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
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is bigger than my presidency. i find it absolutely insane. any person running for office that we would go after them in order to silence them? that s a scary place to be. this is all done by biden and his people. may be his people more portly i don t know if biden knows too much about it. i think it s a complete failure of our justice system. it s a complete joe biden kamala harris hit job. it will catch up to him. i think it s the right verdict. etiquette shows our system of justice works if you are rich or poor. i m shocked he keeps going. i m willing to do whatever i have to do to save our country and to save our constitution. sandra: that was moments ago live in new york city and now a lab look at the white house screen left where we are about to hear from president biden. a big question is whether or not he will comment on former president trump s historic guilty verdict. the president we are told will be making those remarks shortly. they are expected to be