american history we really do need a new word for unprecedented. former president trump vows to appeal his historic guilty conviction. a presidential candidate found guilty on 34 counts is clearly unlike anything we ve ever seen. trump s conviction is a first. the clean sweep guilty on all 34 counts an especially strong vindication of the new york d.a. s case. and sit one that all news viewers and citizens and people around the world are actually hearing and absorbing as one fact. people can have different reactions to this legal fact, but unlike so many other civic and political feuds that deinvolve into competing claims almost from the start, there s only one legal outcome here, an outcome that is sinking in, no matter what one s views of the defendant are, and no matter where you get your information from, your phone or the internet or newspapers or tv news where may 30, 2024 played out with the same big verdict news no matter which station you watch. to that end