DA Bragg praises verdict after Trump is found guilty on all counts in NY trial

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said after Trump's guilty verdicts on Thursday that the judicial system "must be respected" and that the city's police force will be on alert for any protests, small or large.

“Today, a jury of 12 New Yorkers registered their verdict. Our criminal justice process must be respected," Adams said in a press release after the verdict. 

"As we await the next steps, New Yorkers should rest assured that the NYPD stands ready to respond to any and all circumstances, including large-scale protests. While peaceful protests and assembly will always be protected, we will not be a city of any form of lawlessness.”

His statement comes just weeks after multiple anti-Israel protests on college campuses in the city, including Columbia University and NYU.

May 30 was the declared Memorial Day for nearly a century before the Uniform Monday Holiday Act in 1971 moved such holidays and observations to Mondays.

On Thursday, just after former President Donald Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, his son Eric Trump tweeted that May 30 was a day his father was elected back into office as the 47th President of the United States.

"May 30th, 2024 might be remembered as the day Donald J. Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election," the younger Trump wrote.

The former president still faces a sentencing scheduled for July but is still the presumptive Republican candidate for the White House this fall.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said the guilty verdict Thursday has outraged Americans, whether they publicly show it or not.

"I have not seen one person interviewed on the major networks tonight that has appropriately expressed the American people’s rage and disgust about Trump being convicted," Greene tweeted.

"Y’all have no idea how people truly feel about this. This is not good."

Greene went on to say how CNN talked about "Stormy Daniels being offended in court by Trump’s words."

Greene went on to write: "Stormy Daniels makes a living having sex on video, she’s a nasty pornographer. She’s not offended by anything at all.

"The American people are OFFENDED by all of this and everyone involved and they are MOST OFFENDED by people who sit on the sidelines and do NOTHING to stop it."

Two of Trump's top political rivals, other than the president, chimed on X after the guilty verdicts were declared Thursday evening.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi tweeted "This moment is a somber one for America. Trial by a jury of peers is a fundamental principle of democracy, which must be respected."

Meanwhile, current Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said "No one is above the law."

"The verdict speaks for itself," Schumer tweeted.

Biden campaign staffers in the Wilmington headquarters reportedly erupted in cheers as news of the verdict, which found former President Trump guilty on all counts, reached the public Thursday evening, ABC's White House correspondent Mary Bruce reported.

"Our team has heard that there were cheers inside the Biden headquarters in Wilmington as the verdict was read," Bruce said on-air moments after the jury found Trump guilty of falsifying business records on all 34 charges, concluding his historic and unprecedented criminal trial. 

Biden's 2024 re-election campaign wasted no time reacting to the unanimous guilty verdicts publicly, issuing a statement moments after the conviction claiming that "the threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater.

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Former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Thursday appeared to make a jab at former President Trump's guilty verdict in the Manhattan hush money trial.

Clinton spoke at 23rd Annual Global Leadership Awards for the Vital Voices Global Partnership, which she co-founded.

After taking the podium, Clinton quipped, “Thank you so much. Anything going on today?” seemingly referring to her GOP rival in the 2016 presidential election to whom she lost.

The remark elicited cheers from the audience.

Americans across the country reacted to the stunning conviction Thursday of Donald Trump in his landmark criminal trial in New York, as he became the first former U.S. president and presumptive major party nominee to be found guilty of a crime.

The verdict has potentially massive political and societal implications with the presidential election just over five months away, or it could be greeted with a shrug by the American public. Those who talked to Fox News Digital on Thursday offered a range of reactions, from outrage to indifference to glee that Trump had been convicted, as well as divergent predictions on how it would affect the 2024 election.

Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Daniels said she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 which the former president denies, and the jury found Trump falsified 34 business documents to conceal a hush money payment to Daniels before the 2016 election.

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Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker weighed in on former President Trump's conviction in New York, saying the former president can add "felon" to his list of titles.

"Donald Trump is a racist, a homophobe, a grifter, and a threat to this country. He can now add more more title to his list - a felon," Pritzker said on X Thursday.

Former President Donald Trump was found guilty on all counts in New York v. Trump on Thursday, but his legal challenges are far from over, as he awaits scheduling of trials and a major Supreme Court decision to determine whether he’ll have to spend any more time in a courtroom during the 2024 election cycle.

The former president was found guilty on all counts in New York v. Trump Thursday afternoon. A sentencing hearing for the 34 criminal charges in the New York case is set for July 11.

Trump, speaking to reporters after the jury announced its verdict, said he will "fight to the end," and declared: "This is far from over." 

The trial kept the former president of the United States confined to a Lower Manhattan courtroom and off the campaign trail for six weeks.

During the trial, Trump had pleaded with New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan to let him attend arguments at the Supreme Court on the issue of presidential immunity, and on whether he was immune from prosecution by Special Counsel Jack Smith in his 2020 election interference investigation.

Former President Donald Trump will jump right back into fundraising for his 2024 campaign despite his guilty conviction earlier Thursday.

Trump departed his New York City home to attend a fundraiser Thursday evening, a campaign spokesperson told Fox News Digital.

"We are already back to the mission," the spokesperson said. "President Trump won't let this sham stop the movement of this campaign to save the nation."

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg took a victory lap after former President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 counts, saying his office "did our job."

"I did my job. Our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor. And that's exactly what we did here. And what I feel is gratitude to work alongside phenomenal public servants who do that each and every day in matters that you all write about. … I did my job. We did our job. Many voices out there. The only voice that matters is the voice of the jury. And the jury has spoken," Bragg said Thursday evening. 

Bragg charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The jury delivered their verdict late Thursday afternoon, finding Trump guilty on each count. 

Following the guilty verdict on all counts against former President Donald Trump on Thursday, legal experts say that the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case will have "reversible problems" when appealed. 

The former president and presumptive 2024 GOP nominee was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty, but 12 jurors found him guilty on all counts.

Sentencing is slated for July 11, four days before the Republican National Convention. Each count carries a maximum prison sentence of four years. In total, Trump faces a maximum sentence of 136 years behind bars. 

But some legal experts say that the trial is "a target rich environment for appeal," which Trump is expected to do.

"I believe that the case will be reversed eventually either in the state or federal systems," Jonathan Turley, constitutional law attorney and Fox News contributor, said Thursday.

"However, this was the worst expectation for a trial in Manhattan," he said. "I had hoped that the jurors might redeem the integrity of a system that has been used for political purposes." 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an independent candidate for president in 2024, took to social media to warn that former President Donald Trump's conviction could backfire on Democrats.

"The Democratic Party's strategy is to beat President Trump in the courtroom rather than the ballot box. This will backfire in November. Even worse, it is profoundly undemocratic," Kennedy said in a post on X. "America deserves a President who can win at the ballot box without compromising our government’s separation of powers or weaponizing the courts. You can’t save democracy by destroying it first."

The independent candidate added that Democrats "are afraid they will lose in the voting booth," causing them to use a trial instead.

"I’m also running against President Trump in this election. The difference is I’m challenging him on his record," he said.

Former President Trump told Fox News Digital his guilty verdict is a "scar" on the New York justice system, while vowing to "keep fighting" and maintaining that Election Day will be "the most important day in the history of our country." 

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital shortly after the verdict, Trump said it is "a sad day for New York and a sad day for the country." 

"The whole thing was rigged from day one — from the venue to the judge," he told Fox News Digital. "But I’ve never had support like this." 

"We couldn’t get a fair trial," Trump told Fox News Digital. "It’s a sad day for New York and a sad day for the country." 

The former president said "we have to think about how something like this could have happened to our country."

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said Thursday that the verdict reached by the jurors in NY v. Trump reaffirmed that "no one is above the law."

"Today's verdict reaffirms that no one is above the law. In preparation for a verdict in this trial, I directed my Administration to closely coordinate with local and federal law enforcement and we continue to monitor the situation," Hochul said in a statement.

"We are committed to protecting the safety of all New Yorkers and the integrity of our judicial system," she added.

A New York jury on Thursday found the 77-year-old former president guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The former president's sentencing hearing is set for July 11, which will come just four days before the Republican National Convention, which will take place from July 15 to 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Bystanders outside the New York City courtroom where former President Donald Trump was convicted on all counts on Thursday evening reacted with a range of different reactions.

"Very disappointed, I wanted him to be acquitted," a male Trump supporter told Fox News Digital outside the courtroom.

"Just very sad. I wish this case had not been brought."

"It's about time for justice," another man said as he hugged a woman next to him who appeared to be celebrating the news that the former president is now a convicted felon. 

The New York Republican Party said Thursday the verdict reached in former President Donald Trump's trial in New York was a "miscarriage of justice" that has the "Biden administration's fingerprints" all over it.

"This verdict is a miscarriage of justice more befitting a banana republic than the United States of America. It will ultimately be overturned at the Supreme Court," NYGOP Chair Ed Cox said in a statement.

"The Biden administration's fingerprints are all over this purely political prosecution," added Cox, the son-in-law of former President Richard Nixon. "We must redouble our efforts to elect President Trump and fight back against those who would wield the levers of justice against their political opponents."

A New York jury on Thursday found the 77-year-old former president guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

The former president's sentencing hearing is set for July 11, which will come just four days before the Republican National Convention, which will take place from July 15 to 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., blasted the guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump, calling it an "absolute injustice."

"This erodes our justice system," Scott, who is thought of as a potential Trump running mate, said on X, along with a video statement. "Hear me clearly: You cannot silence the American people. You cannot stop us from voting for change.

Joe Biden -- you're fired. We the People stand with Donald J. Trump."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, is reacting to the guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump, denying that it was a "political or partisan process" and commending everyone involved.

"I think it does say something that this is happening in New York where he was born, where he is from, where he has operated," she said.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged former President Donald Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty to all counts, but jurors found him guilty.

AOC addressed the claims by Trump that it was a politically-motivated verdict.

"But Donald Trump was convicted by a jury of his peers. These jurors were folks that even his own legal team helped get through the initial screening process. This is our justice system.  It is a justice system that, for the most part, does not administer justice equally to all people.  Usually the poorest people and most marginalized people and often Black and Brown people experience miscarriages of justice, not just in New York but across the country," she said.

"He has the right to pursue his options, whatever they are.  But this was not a political or partisan process.  This is one of our legal justice system.  And he tried to influence that through political intimidation and intimidating these judges.  I commend everyone who participated, the jurors and the judges and not being intimidated in that process," she said.

Fox News' Greg Wehner contributed to this report.