the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i m rachel maddow. i m here with my colleagues stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes. in a courtroom in downtown manhattan just after 5:00 eastern time this evening the foreperson of the jury rose and delivered the jury s unanimous verdict, donald trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election. it s a scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight it is officially a criminal scheme. he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions we enter uncharted territory as a country. for the first time a president has been criminally convicted, and for the first time one of our two main political parties is about to nominate that same man for president after he has been convicted of 34 felonies. that is wher
store you are watching our live continuing special coverage of today s unanimous guilty on all counts verdict. in the criminal trial of former president donald trump. i am rachel maddow, i m here with my colleague, stephanie ruhle and jen psaki and alex wagner and chris hayes, in a courtroom in downtown manhattan, just after 5:00 eastern time this evening, a foreperson of the journey rose and delivered the jury unanimous , guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to conceal the scheme to correct the 2016 election. the scheme that was described by the prosecution in their summation as something that may very well have been the reason that donald trump won the 2016 election. as of tonight, it is official a criminal scheme, he has been convicted on 34 counts. with those convictions, we enter uncharted territory as a country, for the first time, a president has criminally convicted and for the first time for one of our two main political parties is about to
for those of you just joining us today for the first time in american history a former president of the united states has been criminally convicted in a court of law. just hours ago, a jury of 12 ordinary americans found donald trump guilty on all 34 felony counts he faced in the state of new york. those charges of falsifying business records stem from trump s cover-up of an alleged extramarital affair with adult film star stormy daniels and his effort to keep that information from the voters. the story first broke back in 2018 when the wall street journal dropped a bombshell report at the time too about the hush money payment to daniels to prevent her from going public. now, it took years the justice system can work slowly at time, that s how sometimes it works, but it took years for prosecutors to bring a case forward so. long, in fact thargs it was dubbed a zombie case. that is until alvin bragg took the extraordinary step of indicting a former president. he was the fi