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Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in criminal hush money trial
Former US president Donald Trump speaks to the media outside his criminal trial at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on Thursday. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
The billionaires rallying behind Trump after his conviction
The Trump campaign says it raised $53m within a day of his New York verdict
Miriam Adelson (left) with Mr Trump
Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman backs Mr Trump
Others are likely to follow suit. In the hours following the verdict last week, a number of wealthy billionaires posted messages of support for Mr Trump.
Among them was Silicon Valley investor David Sacks, who posted on X, formerly Twitter, that there "is now only one issue in this election: whether the American people will stand for the USA becoming a Banana Republic".
On 6 June, Mr Sacks and fellow investor Chamath Palihapitiya, are planning to host a fundraiser for Mr Trump in San Francisco. Attendees are reportedly being asked to contribute as much as $300,000.
Another potential donor, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, is expected to make an announcement on X in the coming days about supporting Mr Trump.
While three years ago Mr Ackman said that Mr Trump "should apologise to all Americans" in the wake of the US Capitol riot, the financier has since softened his tone and offered words of support to the former president online.
Blackstone Group CEO Steve Schwarzman - one of the most prominent billionaires on Wall Street - has already announced he will support Mr Trump in the election.
Like Mr Ackman, Mr Schwarzman had previously distanced himself from the ex-president.
But in late May, Mr Schwarzman said that he shared "the concern of most Americans that our economic, immigration and foreign policies are taking the country in the wrong direction".
He also said the "dramatic rise of antisemitism has led me to focus on the consequences of the upcoming election with greater urgency".
Other prominent billionaires who have thrown their support behind Mr Trump so far include hedge fund founders John Paulson and Robert Mercer, as well as fracking pioneer Harold Hamm and casino mogul Steve Wynn.
Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz - who said after the US Capitol riot that he regretted voting for Trump in 2020 - has had a change of heart and hosted the former president at his oceanfront Florida mansion in March.
Elon Musk, on the other hand, has previously said he will not be donating to either candidate this electoral cycle, although he does plan to host a livestreamed town-hall style event with Mr Trump.
Similarly, billionaire tech financier and prominent Republican donor Peter Thiel has reportedly turned down requests to donate to the Trump campaign and was said not to be planning any contributions this electoral cycle.
Shaun Maguire, a partner at prominent venture capital firm Sequoia, announced a $300,000 donation to Mr Trump within minutes of last week's verdict, arguing that the trial was unfair.
In a lengthy post on X, Mr Maguire outlined a number of reasons for supporting Mr Trump, including the Biden administration's handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and "weakness" in the Middle East.
The various legal cases against Mr Trump, Mr Maguire added, also served as a "radicalising experience".
"There's a real chance President Trump is convicted of felony charges and sentenced to prison," he wrote. "Bluntly, that's part of why I'm supporting him. I believe our justice system is being weaponised against him."
To date, the Biden campaign has largely surpassed the Trump campaign as far as fundraising.
By the end of April, the campaign had a record $192m cash-on-hand, compared to the Trump campaign's $93.1m.
That same month, however, the Trump campaign raised $76m, surpassing their Democratic rivals for the first time in this election cycle. The Biden campaign raised $51m in April, sharply down from the $90m-plus raised a month earlier.
But despite all the fundraising, Professor Justin Buchler, a campaign finance expert from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, told the BBC: "Money is not going to be determinative.
"The primary role of money in a campaign is to increase name recognition. Everybody already knows who Donald Trump and Joe Biden are."
A review of data from CBS, the BBC's US partner, has found that Mr Trump's fundraising tends to enjoy a boost during key moments in his various legal battles.
Before last week's conviction, his single best fundraising days were 4 April last year - the day of his arraignment in New York City - as well as 25 August, when a mugshot of him taken in Georgia was released.
The BBC has contacted the Trump and Biden campaigns for comment on the fundraising.
Trump's White House bid goes on, lawyer tells BBC
What world made of Trump guilty verdict
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Ultra-wealthy Republican donors are rallying behind former US President Donald Trump following his historic trial and criminal conviction.
Mr Trump, the Republican candidate for this November's White House election, was found guilty of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to former adult-film star Stormy Daniels.
While he has lagged behind Joe Biden and the Democrats' fundraising efforts, the conviction injected new life into his electoral bid - with his campaign announcing that it raised nearly $53m (£41.6m) in just 24 hours after the verdict.
Israeli-American casino billionaire Miriam Adelson is expected to announce a multi-million dollar boost to Mr Trump's campaign this week.
According to US media reports, Mrs Adelson will donate to a political action committee called Preserve America. Political action committees can spend unlimited sums of money backing candidates for elected office.
While it is unclear how much she plans to spend, Politico and other US news outlets have reported that the contribution is expected to exceed the $90m donation to Preserve America by Mrs Adelson and her late husband, Sheldon, ahead of the 2020 election.
What world made of Trump guilty verdict
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Global media sees conviction further polarising America
The first conviction of a sitting or former US president has made headlines across the globe.
Much of the world's media have been reflecting on what this means for Mr Trump's aspiration to return to the White House.
He was convicted 34 times of falsifying business records to disguise payments to an adult film star to buy her silence just before the 2016 election. He denied the charges and the affair.
So how is this history-making conviction being covered, from Buenos Aires to Beijing?
We asked our colleagues at BBC Monitoring, which tracks and analyses media around the world.
Russia: 'Justice New York way'
By Sandro Vetsko, BBC Monitoring Russia specialist
In Russia, the largely Kremlin-controlled media have reported Trump's conviction with a bias in his favour - which is par for the course given they supported Trump in his first run for president and are critical of Joe Biden.
"Justice New York way," was how a presenter on the popular state channel NTV put it, with a correspondent then appearing to suggest the jury may not have considered their decisions thoroughly, saying they deliberated "for just 11 hours".
The Kremlin has portrayed the trial as part of the battle for the White House between President Joe Biden and Trump. "They are effectively simply removing political rivals using all possible legal and illegal means. That much is clear," spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
This line has also been echoed in the media. State Channel One TV host Artyom Sheynin asserted on Telegram that America’s judiciary was geared "too blatantly to benefit Biden".
Italy: 'This could derail White House bid'
By Alys Davies, BBC News, London
An editorial in the French newspaper Le Monde takes the view that while American voters were owed “the truth” of what they call Trump’s criminality, the effects of his conviction remain highly uncertain.
The "real" sentencing will not come on 11 July but on the presidential election day, 5 November, it said.
US bureau chief for the Italian daily la Repubblica, Paolo Mastrolilli, takes a more strident view that the guilty verdict is a “defeat” for Trump that could “derail” his election bid, despite the continued support of his loyal fanbase.
By contrast, a comment piece in German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung decries the US political system and the lack of influence the conviction will, in its eyes, have on Trump's standing among Republicans.
“Guilty 34 times… After such a verdict, a candidate for the most powerful job in the world should be politically finished. Instead, his party continues to bow down to Donald Trump,” writes the paper's US correspondent Peter Burghardt.
Meanwhile Polish daily Rzeczpospolita says the "American left has shot itself in the foot" with Trump's conviction.
Pawel Lekpowski describes Trump as "a victim of the overzealous political correct moral inquisition" and says "the effect of [the guilty verdict] will be the opposite of what was intended.”
China: 'Old people and criminals' run for White House
By BBC Monitoring China team
Beijing has not officially commented on Trump's conviction but the story has generated significant coverage in state media, much of it factual.
The few commentators who have talked about it have cast it in terms critical of American democracy.
The US election has become "a battle between old people and criminals", said one commentary in the state-affiliated outlet Guancha, which often posts blogs and articles on trending topics with a nationalist tone.
Washington has now entered a "deep-water zone", with the "shabby old ship" of the US facing an upcoming political storm, suggested another.
Another in the same outlet said the ruling exposed the deep "polarisation in US party politics".
Shen Yi, an international relations professor at Fudan University, said in another nationalist outlet, Global Times, that Washington's "divisive" political system was destroying the soft power the US had built up - "bad news" for "American hegemony".
Mexico: 'Guilty of Pornogate'
By Pascal Fletcher, BBC Monitoring Latin America specialist, Miami
The welter of headlines on the Donald Trump verdict, from Mexico to Argentina, reflected the region’s uneasy view of the US ex-president.
While major dailies made a point of splashing on their front pages large photos of a stern-looking Trump, they also made clear that the guilty verdict against him would not stop him from running for re-election.
This is a sobering prospect for many Latin American leaders and governments who have deep misgivings, and fears, about his radical proposals and threats to counter foreign migrants and drug cartels from south of the border.
Prominent Colombian daily El Espectador accompanied a front-page article with the headline: "A criminal headed for the White House".
Others across the region varied in tone, from the Brazilian daily O Globo’s statement of historical fact "Trump is the 1st ex-president of the US condemned for a crime", to Mexican daily Reforma’s deeply unflattering headline “Guilty of Pornogate”.
In Argentina, daily Clarin’s initial report called the guilty verdict “a shock” and leftist daily Pagina 12 saw it causing “commotion in the United States”.
Donald Trump featured on many front pages
What world made of Trump guilty verdict
The first conviction of a sitting or former US president has made headlines across the globe.
Much of the world's media have been reflecting on what this means for Mr Trump's aspiration to return to the White House.
He was convicted 34 times of falsifying business records to disguise payments to an adult film star to buy her silence just before the 2016 election. He denied the charges and the affair.
So how is this history-making conviction being covered, from Buenos Aires to Beijing?
We asked our colleagues at BBC Monitoring, which tracks and analyses media around the world.
Russia: 'Justice New York way'
By Sandro Vetsko, BBC Monitoring Russia specialist
In Russia, the largely Kremlin-controlled media have reported Trump's conviction with a bias in his favour - which is par for the course given they supported Trump in his first run for president and are critical of Joe Biden.
"Justice New York way," was how a presenter on the popular state channel NTV put it, with a correspondent then appearing to suggest the jury may not have considered their decisions thoroughly, saying they deliberated "for just 11 hours".
The Kremlin has portrayed the trial as part of the battle for the White House between President Joe Biden and Trump. "They are effectively simply removing political rivals using all possible legal and illegal means. That much is clear," spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
This line has also been echoed in the media. State Channel One TV host Artyom Sheynin asserted on Telegram that America’s judiciary was geared "too blatantly to benefit Biden".
Italy: 'This could derail White House bid'
By Alys Davies, BBC News, London
An editorial in the French newspaper Le Monde takes the view that while American voters were owed “the truth” of what they call Trump’s criminality, the effects of his conviction remain highly uncertain.
The "real" sentencing will not come on 11 July but on the presidential election day, 5 November, it said.
US bureau chief for the Italian daily la Repubblica, Paolo Mastrolilli, takes a more strident view that the guilty verdict is a “defeat” for Trump that could “derail” his election bid, despite the continued support of his loyal fanbase.
By contrast, a comment piece in German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung decries the US political system and the lack of influence the conviction will, in its eyes, have on Trump's standing among Republicans.
“Guilty 34 times… After such a verdict, a candidate for the most powerful job in the world should be politically finished. Instead, his party continues to bow down to Donald Trump,” writes the paper's US correspondent Peter Burghardt.
Meanwhile Polish daily Rzeczpospolita says the "American left has shot itself in the foot" with Trump's conviction.
Pawel Lekpowski describes Trump as "a victim of the overzealous political correct moral inquisition" and says "the effect of [the guilty verdict] will be the opposite of what was intended.”
China: 'Old people and criminals' run for White House
By BBC Monitoring China team
Beijing has not officially commented on Trump's conviction but the story has generated significant coverage in state media, much of it factual.
The few commentators who have talked about it have cast it in terms critical of American democracy.
The US election has become "a battle between old people and criminals", said one commentary in the state-affiliated outlet Guancha, which often posts blogs and articles on trending topics with a nationalist tone.
Washington has now entered a "deep-water zone", with the "shabby old ship" of the US facing an upcoming political storm, suggested another.
Another in the same outlet said the ruling exposed the deep "polarisation in US party politics".
Shen Yi, an international relations professor at Fudan University, said in another nationalist outlet, Global Times, that Washington's "divisive" political system was destroying the soft power the US had built up - "bad news" for "American hegemony".
Mexico: 'Guilty of Pornogate'
By Pascal Fletcher, BBC Monitoring Latin America specialist, Miami
The welter of headlines on the Donald Trump verdict, from Mexico to Argentina, reflected the region’s uneasy view of the US ex-president.
While major dailies made a point of splashing on their front pages large photos of a stern-looking Trump, they also made clear that the guilty verdict against him would not stop him from running for re-election.
This is a sobering prospect for many Latin American leaders and governments who have deep misgivings, and fears, about his radical proposals and threats to counter foreign migrants and drug cartels from south of the border.
Prominent Colombian daily El Espectador accompanied a front-page article with the headline: "A criminal headed for the White House".
Others across the region varied in tone, from the Brazilian daily O Globo’s statement of historical fact "Trump is the 1st ex-president of the US condemned for a crime", to Mexican daily Reforma’s deeply unflattering headline “Guilty of Pornogate”.
In Argentina, daily Clarin’s initial report called the guilty verdict “a shock” and leftist daily Pagina 12 saw it causing “commotion in the United States”.
And some commentary elsewhere...
Trump's conviction made headlines around the world - from influential pan-Arab TV channels like the Saudi-funded Al-Arabiya to India's newspaper of record, The Times of India.
Much of this reporting was neutral, but some have echoed Trump's criticisms of American institutions.
On CNN Turk, for example, guests suggested the US judicial system was "rigged” and that “the judge and the jury are biased".
One caption on the channel repeated a well-known trope voiced by Trump supporters, asking: “Did the US Deep State block Trump?”
On social media, Iranians who support Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of the last Shah of Iran, condemned the verdict, saying "globalists and leftist are doing all in their power to hold back Trump from becoming US's president again".
But the pro-government news website Haqqin.az in Azerbaijan wrote: "The insensitivity of American voters even to the criminal conviction of a presidential candidate suggests that the country has reached the brink - there is nowhere to go further."
Additional reporting by Rupsha Mukherjee, Hilken Boran, Omneya El Naggar and Ghoncheh Habibiazad
The former president says his trial was 'tougher' on his family than on him
Donald Trump says hush-money trial 'very hard' on wife Melania
Donald Trump has said his historic trial and criminal conviction have been "very hard" for his wife, former First Lady Melania Trump.
Last week, jurors found Mr Trump guilty of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments made to former porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
With the verdict, he became the first US president to be convicted of a crime. He has repeatedly called the trial rigged and politically motivated.
In an interview with Fox News over the weekend, Mr Trump vowed that success at the upcoming November US election would be his "revenge".
He is slated to be sentenced on 11 July, and plans to appeal against the convictions.
Speaking to Fox on Sunday, Mr Trump said his New York legal battle has been particularly difficult on his wife.
The trial included lurid details of the alleged meeting between Mr Trump and Ms Daniels.
The details included Mr Trump greeting her in silk pyjamas at his hotel suite, and Ms Daniels' claims that he did not wear protection when they allegedly had sex.
In her testimony, Ms Daniels also claimed that Mr Trump and his wife sleep in different beds.
"She's fine, but I think it's very hard for her," Mr Trump said of his wife, adding that "in many ways, it's tougher on them [his family] than it is me".
Under New York law, each of the 34 felony counts Mr Trump was convicted of could result in up to four years in prison - though this is not considered a likely outcome.
In his interview on Fox, Mr Trump acknowledged the possibility of being imprisoned, saying that he is "okay with it" but that he is "not sure the public would stand for it".
"I think it would be tough for the public to take," he said. "You know, at a certain point there's a breaking point."
In another interview published over the weekend, the woman at the heart of the New York case - former adult film actress Stormy Daniels - said she was "shocked" at how quickly the jury reached a verdict.
In her first public remarks since the convictions, Ms Daniels told UK newspaper The Mirror that she believes Mr Trump "should be sentenced to jail and some community service working for the less fortunate".
"Or being the volunteer punching bag at a woman's shelter," she added.
Even after the conviction, Ms Daniels said that the case is "not over" for her.
"It's never going to be over for me," she said. "Trump may be guilty, but I still have to live with the legacy."
Mr Trump is still facing dozens of other charges in three other criminal cases, including a Georgia case in which he is accused of conspiring to overturn his narrow defeat by President Joe Biden in the state during the 2020 election. That case is currently tied up in appeals.
In Florida - where he faces a federal case over his alleged mishandling of classified documents - a judge has indefinitely postponed the trial, saying setting a date before resolving questions about evidence would be “imprudent”.
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Trump's White House bid goes on, lawyer tells BBC
Laura Kuenssberg,Presenter of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg,
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One of Donald Trump's lawyers has told the BBC "nothing will change" his fight for the White House - despite being convicted following an historic trial in New York.
Jurors found Mr Trump guilty on Thursday of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments made to former porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Mr Trump became the first US president to be convicted of a crime, but he has said the trial was rigged and the prosecution was politically orchestrated.
Alina Habba has told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg the former president is a "victim of political, selective prosecution".
Following the seven-week trial at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, Mr Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Mr Trump will be sentenced on 11 July. However, he confirmed he will be appealing against his criminal convictions.
Ms Habba, 40, sat alongside Mr Trump during the trial and said even if jailed, Mr Trump will still stand in the US presidential election in November.
Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba (L) appeared alongside the former US president after he was convicted
"We have seen some corruption in this country that frankly has never seen before in our judicial system," Ms Habba told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
"It is very real, it is not posturing by any means, it is 100% a problem that this country is going to have to handle and get a grapple on in November.
"He is running for president, nothing will change there.
"The people that need him in this country, because frankly it's more important than anything anybody else thinks.
"Our people are speaking loudly, they're donating, they're small donors, and they are standing up because they are afraid, because we cannot have this happen to us."
On Thursday Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments made to Stormy Daniels during his 2016 presidential campaign
In remarks at Trump Tower in New York on Friday, Mr Trump spoke for more than 30 minutes and angrily attacked his political opponents, the jury and the judge in his case.
He called Judge Juan Merchan, who presided over his trial, a "tyrant" and claimed that he "literally crucified" witnesses.
In response, President Joe Biden's campaign described Mr Trump as unhinged and thirsting for revenge.
"That's how the American system of justice works," Mr Biden said, adding it was "reckless" and "irresponsible" for anyone to suggest the trial was rigged.
Mr Trump's unprecedented conviction has entrenched bitter divisions in the US, in the run-up to November's vote.
Prosecutors successfully laid out a case Mr Trump was afraid Ms Daniels would fatally harm his 2016 presidential campaign by going public with an alleged sexual encounter, prompting him to pay her - then illegally hide the transaction.
Mr Trump denied these allegations.
Ms Daniels herself gave evidence. In another development since the convictions, her lawyer told ABC News Ms Daniels wore a bulletproof vest when she went to the New York courthouse.
Clark Brewster said: "It's so vicious and threatening and so I think from the standpoint of just the fear of what somebody might do," he said of the atmosphere for Ms Daniels.
"It was really fear."
In exclusive comments to the Daily Mirror, Ms Daniels said Mr Trump should be jailed or used as "the volunteer punching bag at a women's shelter".
She told the paper: "It’s not over for me. It’s never going to be over for me.
"Trump may be guilty, but I still have to live with the legacy.”
Trump's team may use Stormy Daniels' testimony as grounds for appeal
Previously, Ms Daniels's husband, Barrett Blade, told CNN she felt "a little vindicated".
Mr Blade added that despite the trial ending and bringing some relief, the stress was far from over.
"It brings another weight upon her shoulders of what happens next," Mr Blade said.
"We take it day by day."
Also on Saturday, the Trump campaign sent out a text message to supporters – one of more than a dozen sent since the verdict – which read in part: “They want me behind bars. They want me DEAD.”
Some of his most fervent supporters, such as former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson, have alleged without evidence there is a secret plot to assassinate Mr Trump.
Others have made a less conspiratorial argument – pointing out the maximum penalty Mr Trump faces, four years for each of 34 felony counts, would effectively mean he would spend the rest of his life in prison.
Mr Trump alluded to this in his most recent fundraising message, saying his enemies are “attempting to JAIL me for life as an innocent man”.
However, legal experts agree Mr Trump will not receive anywhere near the maximum, and will be sentenced to a much shorter jail sentence, if he is given any prison time at all.
Additional reporting by Mike Wendling.
The full interview with Alina Habba will be played on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at 09:00 BST on Sunday 2 June.
Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in criminal hush money trial
Former US president convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels
Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in criminal hush money trial – The Irish Times