thank you for watching, on that note i wish you all a very good and a very safe night from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. see you at the end of your monday. hello, covering this first conviction of a former president in american history. thursday may 30th, 2024 is now etched in all of our collective experiences. the day a jury found donald trump guilty. the day a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from fellow citizens, civil cases from government officials, regulatory probes, federal probes, congressional inquiries, a record breaking two impeachments in one presidential term, a historic rico charge and two federal, in all of those cases over many years that included all kinds of evidence of wrong doing, found that he could not outrun a jury of his peers. after two days and more than nine hours of deliberation, they unanimously found him guilty. on all counts as you know by now. a former president convicted of felon
that will do it for me on this addition of alex witt reports, who is enjoying some well- deserved time off . thank you for watching. we will see you again tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern. next, the beat: weekend peer hello, i m ari melber covering the first conviction of a former president in american history. thursday, may 30, 2024 , is now etched in all of our collective experiences. the day a jury found donald trump guilty. the date a man who spent his life outrunning lawsuits from fellow citizens, civil cases from government officials, regulatory probes, federal probes, congressional inquiries, a record-breaking two impeachments and one presidential term, historic rico charge in an unprecedented two federal indictments, the defendant outran or punted accountability and all of those cases over many years which involved all kinds of evidence of wrongdoing found he could not outrun a jury of his peers. after two days and nine hours of deliberation as they unanimously found h
figure. guilty and guilt. and two of them in the new york post, one of the only papers going farther as i mentioned than the wall street your journal, instead of beginning with the facts they started with a tick. as quote injustice. the small queens daily eagle went with an old school way to put it, queens man, convicted. that queens man is just that, a man, a person. a citizen, he has rights as a convict. just as he had rights as a defendant. he s expected to appeal. they re saying they re going to do that. as for the president who replaced donald trump, he s also speaking out. he rarely does on this topic but now that there is a verdict. he spoke about it for the first time. i just want to say a few words about what happened yesterday in new york city. the american principle that no one is above the law was
they view the rule of law and a jury of his peers in the process having played out as, quote, injustice but donald trump s hometown paper, the small queens daily eagle went with an old-school way to put it. queens man convicted. that queens man is just that. a man. a person. a citizen. he has rights as a convict just as he had rights as a defendant and is expected to appeal. they say they will do that. as for the president who replaced donald trump, he is also speaking out. he rarely does on this topic but now that there is a verdict, he spoke about it for the first time. and i just want to say a few words about what happened yesterday in new york city. the american principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. reaffirmed and reaffirmed against something that some of the optimism politicians did not acknowledge as much. that of these four different indictments i mentioned, three have been effectively punted, delayed and whittled down to not get to the public or to a