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
left with is talking about issues like bill was suggesting, the economy, migrants, foreign policy. trump is capable of talking about those issues, agree or disagree with him. but with joe biden, less so. so i can see why democrats are beginning to get into a freak ifout to over the president s ability to car ally the campaign. paul: bill, you wrote about kamala harris, the vice president, being a problem for democrats if if they ever go to the place where they re going to replace biden because she might even be a weaker candidate. explain that. well, the polls show she s not [inaudible] than joe biden. and it s not surprising. remember, she dropped out of the democratic primaries before a single vote was cast, even black voters were not going for her. they went with for joe biden. they bailed him out in south carolina. he s looking to her now to shore up support among women. she s out there campaigning about abortion. and among african-americans, to