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Cutting across internal party divisions, the Republicans rallied around Trump as the jurors unanimously reached a verdict in the hush money criminal case, convicting him of a felony. The grand jury in New York found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. This made him the first former president to be convicted of a felony. Felony is a crime regarded in the US and many other judicial systems as more serious than a misdemeanor.
The jury found that the 77-year-old presumptive Republican presidential candidate falsified the records in a scheme to influence his 2016 presidential election through hush money payments to a porn actor, Stormy Daniels, who had said she had sex with Trump.
“This will backfire,” said Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy, who over the past few months has emerged as a close aide and confidant of Trump. “The prosecutor is a politician who promised to nail Trump. The judge’s daughter is a Democrat operative who literally *raised dollars from the trial* while her father presided over it. The jury instructions said they didn’t have to agree on the crime to convict,” he said.
Ramaswamy is an American entrepreneur and politician. He founded Roivant Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, in 2014. In February 2023, Ramaswamy declared his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 United States presidential election. However, he ended his bid endorsing ‘Best President of 21st century’.
“Dems could have saved a lot of time by announcing the verdict first, and then having the trial,” said former Indian-American Governor Bobby Jindal from Louisiana. “Pretty neat trick that the same Dem DA who makes violent felonies disappear conjured up these felonies,” he said.
