Donald Trump LIVE updates after historic guilty verdict: Former president tells Biden to ‘buckle up’ as he returns to campaign

Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt has a message for Biden:

Corrupt Joe Biden and the Democrats confined President Trump to a courtroom for more than eight hours a day for more than six weeks, and he’s still winning.

Now that he’s fully back on the campaign trail, Biden and the Democrats better buckle up.

Donald Trump wasted a “winnable case” in which he could have had a hung jury or gotten away with just a misdemeanor, legal experts have argued.

The former president was found guilty by a jury of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the so-called ‘secret money’ trial in New York.

Veteran attorneys argue that District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case had weaknesses, despite 200 pieces of evidence and weeks of witness testimony.

But Trump’s lawyers failed to exploit them, confusing the jury by questioning every aspect of the accusation and refusing to offer the option of a lesser charge.

The Kremlin said Friday that Donald Trump’s guilty verdict shows that all legal and illegal means are being used in the United States to get rid of political rivals.

Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:

If we talk about Trump, it is obvious that it is simply about eliminating, in effect, political rivals by all possible means, legal and illegal.

Donald Trump wasted a “winnable case” in which he could have had a hung jury or gotten away with just a misdemeanor, legal experts have argued.

The former president was found guilty by a jury of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the so-called ‘secret money’ trial in New York.

Veteran attorneys argue that District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case had weaknesses, despite 200 pieces of evidence and weeks of witness testimony.

But Trump’s lawyers failed to exploit them, confusing the jury by questioning every aspect of the accusation and refusing to offer the option of a lesser charge.

Bill O’Reilly has said President Joe Biden should pardon his son Hunter and Donald Trump to heal the nation.

“President Biden should pardon Donald Trump for any and all crimes and publicly suggest that Governor (Kathy) Hochul do the same,” O’Reilly told Chris Cuomo.

‘And then… President Biden should pardon his son Hunter. That would throw the entire acrimonious system into absolute chaos.

O’Reilly said that while Biden could “turn down the hate… he won’t, because he doesn’t have Gerald Ford’s ‘fiber’.”

Trump will face his sentencing on July 11, just four days before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where the party will nominate Trump for president for the third time.

These are some of the key takeaways from Thursday’s trial.