Donald Trump has been found guilty of all 34 counts in his landmark hush money criminal trial.
He has become the first American president in history to be convicted of felony crimes.
Thursday's decision followed over 11 hours deliberations from 18 jurors in a case which first began midway through April.
It will likely take several months for Judge Juan Merchan, who oversaw the case, to decide whether to sentence Trump to prison.
Ahead of the verdict, the judge requested there be "no reactions, no outbursts of any kind".
Trump has denied any wrongdoing throughout the trial, held in New York City.
Speaking just after the judge sent the jury to decide on the result, Trump appeared to say he thought he would be convicted.
Trump told reporters that the charges were rigged and again accused the judge of being conflicted while saying that "Mother Teresa could not beat these charges."
"What is happening here is weaponisation at a level that nobody’s seen before ever and it shouldn’t be allowed to happen," Trump said.
Trump repeated accusations that the criminal charges were brought by the Biden administration to hit him, as the president’s main election opponent.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg originally filed the case against Trump in March 2023, charging him on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
The trial focused on allegations that Trump and his allies conspired to stifle potentially embarrassing stories during the 2016 presidential campaign through hush money payments - including to former adult film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
Both Daniels and McDougal claim to have been paid to keep quiet about affairs they had with Trump.
Trump denied the allegations and argued in court that neither Daniels, McDougal nor his then-attorney, Michael Cohen - who claims to have paid both actresses - can be trusted.
Cohen was one of 20 witnesses who gave evidence and testimony at the trial over the course of 15 days.
The case comes as Trump - the presumptive Republican presidential candidate - prepares to battle it out with incumbent US President Joe Biden for November's presidential election.
There is currently a fight on his wikipedia page about adding "convicted felon" to the initial summary paragraph.
"This statement, in its utterly clueless hubristic stupidity, cannot be improved upon. I merely quote it in admiration of its perfection." - Garibaldi
"Problem is, while the Germans have had many mea culpas and quite painfully dealt with their history, the South is still hellbent on painting themselves as the real victims. It gives them a special place in the history of assholes" - Covenant
"Over three million died fighting for the emperor, but when the war was over he pretended it was not his responsibility. What kind of man does that?'' - Saburo Sakai
I added a second sentence to the first paragraph noting that he is the first former President convicted of a felony, which seems to be where the consensus was going in the Request for Comment on the talk page.
It should be changed to
Convicted Felon (Pending Appeals)
Edit wars are both hilarious and sad, they're bound to lock it sooner or later
Until then, enjoy the chaos and add to it if you can
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Welp, someone came along and removed the felony reference claiming it violates current consensus (the current consensus document is very specific about the wording of the first sentence, not about adding to the first paragraph, so he's full of shit). Edit warring is unproductive, so time to get to work in the proper Wikipedian way.
It should be changed to
Convicted Felon (Pending Appeals)
Edit wars are both hilarious and sad, they're bound to lock it sooner or later
Good old internet flame wars and shit posts.
Never thought I would miss it so much.
"This statement, in its utterly clueless hubristic stupidity, cannot be improved upon. I merely quote it in admiration of its perfection." - Garibaldi
"Problem is, while the Germans have had many mea culpas and quite painfully dealt with their history, the South is still hellbent on painting themselves as the real victims. It gives them a special place in the history of assholes" - Covenant
"Over three million died fighting for the emperor, but when the war was over he pretended it was not his responsibility. What kind of man does that?'' - Saburo Sakai
