all thanks for joining me today. i m alison camp maratha. i ll see you back here tomorrow. and newsroom with jessica dean starts right now. you re, in the. cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i m jessica lean in washington and we begin today with former president and now convicted felon donald trump boasting a surgeon campaign donations following the verdict in his historic hush money criminal trial the trump campaign says it is raised nearly 53 million since he was found guilty by a manhattan jury of falsifying business records in order to influence the 2016 election. the judge has set trump s sentencing date for july 11. that s just days before the republican national convention, where trump is expected to be time tapped as the party s nominee trump, of course, planning to appeal and yesterday he gave a glimpse of how we intends to forge ahead with his campaign falsely calling the trial rigged and claiming political persecution this is a case where if they can do this to me, they