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
until if we get a biden victory this november under the cloud of this conviction and then it s overturned on appeal which i agree there s a reasonable chance of success there for donald trump because of the way that a this was structured. again, remember, trump was convicted of falsifying business records in order to commit or conceal a second crime which was campaigning unlawfully in new york. and the unlawful means was either some sort of tax violation or covering up falsification of other business records or a federal campaign finance violation. there was a lot of fodder there for appeals courts. there s a former f if ec commissioner who say no way, no how was this a campaign a expense. and because those three are all tied together, if that a falls, i think the overall conviction has to go. paul: when we come back, much more on the guilty verdict against donald trump and the potential political fallout for both the former president and joe biden as the 20 this