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Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial.
The case remains legally dodgy. While the jury answered all the necessary factual allegations in the affirmative, whether or not this is legally enough to support a conviction will get hashed out on appeal. Is hush money really an illegal campaign contribution when it could never have legally been a campaign expenditure? Did Stormy Daniels prejudice the jury by getting into the skeevy details of her encounter with Trump, warranting a mistrial? All questions that the New York court system will grapple with. But for now, Donald Trump is a convicted criminal.
And more importantly for his attorneys, he still has to keep paying them.
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