Fox News ByĀ David RutzĀ ,Ā Joseph A. WulfsohnĀ ,Ā Joshua Q. NelsonĀ ,Ā Nikolas LanumĀ ,Ā Hannah Ray LambertĀ ,Ā Christopher LopezĀ ,Ā Ashley CarnahanĀ
Americans predict whether Trump guilty verdict will affect 2024 election: ‘I won’t vote for him, but I think he will win’
Americans across the country reacted to theĀ stunning conviction Thursday of Donald TrumpĀ 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 toĀ Fox News DigitalĀ 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.
Aaron, speaking in Birmingham, Mich., told Fox News Digital the verdict was “absolutely insane” and made him more inclined to vote for Trump and donate to his campaign.
Donald Trump arrives to Trump Tower, Thursday, May 30, 2024 after being found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.Ā (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)
“It’s election interference,” he said. “We have a frontrunner in all the polls. He’s actually beating Biden, and they’ve gone after Trump in multiple states.”
Chase, also from Birmingham, Mich., said the verdict was a “complete failure of our justice system.”
“I think it makes Trump stronger with his base,” he added.
Outside the courthouse in Manhattan, a Trump supporter who said he was a native New Yorker called the verdict “despicable.”
“[Trump] may be guilty there,” he said, pointing to the courthouse, “but not in the eyes of the real New Yorker. We support him. He’s going to be our president…
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