Donald Trump slammed the “rigged, disgraceful trial” in his first comments after a Manhattan jury found him guilty on all 34 counts in the historic hush money criminal case against him.
A sour-looking Trump, 77, addressed reporters moments after the jury — five women and seven men — delivered its decision.
“The real verdict will be Nov. 5 by the people … I’m a very innocent man,” the glum ex-president told reporters, blaming the ordeal on President Biden.
“I’m fighting for our country, I’m fighting for our constitution,” Trump said. “We’re a nation in decline.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was accused of fudging company documents tied to claims he had his then-fixer Michael Cohen — the prosecution’s star witness — made a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels in the lead-up to the 2016 election to silence her story about having an affair with Trump.
He was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, felonies that each carried a possible sentence of up to four years behind bars, in the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office — making him the US president to become a convicted felon.
Daniels, at the nearly two month-long trial, testified that she had sex with a married Trump following a Lake Tahoe charity golf event in 2006.
Trump is the first US president convicted in a criminal case.
