With the historic verdict of guilt reached unanimously by the jury after two days of deliberation in case of porn star Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump becomes the first former American president convicted in a criminal trial and also the first presidential candidate to run as a convicted felon, a status which however does not prevent him from being elected and becoming commander in chief.
The sentence, which will be determined at a subsequent hearing, can range from a maximum of 4 years in prison to probation up to a fine. Donald Trump was accused of 34 counts of falsifying accounting documents of his holding company to hide the 130 thousand dollars paid to the porn star Stormy Daniels so that she did not reveal in her previous 2016 election campaign the night of sex she had had with him ten years earlier . Money paid by his former all-round lawyer Michael Cohen and then reimbursed as fictitious legal expenses, also violating the law on electoral finance and therefore the integrity of the vote.
Trump impassive as he read the guilty verdict
Donald Trump remained impassive upon reading the historic guilty verdict against him in the case of payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. When judge Juan Merchan then officially asked the jury if that was the verdict, the tycoon looked at them with frowning eyebrows.