Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg held a press conference shortly after his office’s historic conviction of Trump, and he began by thanking the jurors for their work over the past several weeks, calling their service the “cornerstone of our judicial system.”
“Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant Donald J. Trump is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election,” Bragg said. “And while this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial and, ultimately today, at this verdict in the same manner as every other case that comes through the courtroom doors by following the facts and the law and doing so without fear or favor.”
Bragg declined to say whether he planned to seek a prison sentence for Trump, saying his team will continue to speak through court filings.
“I did my job. We did our job. Many voices out there — the only voice that matters is the voice of the jury and the jury has spoken,” he said.
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