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TELL US: Will the Trump guilty verdict change your vote for president in the upcoming election?

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court during jury deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (Steven Hirsch/New York Post via AP, Pool) (Steven Hirsch, Steven Hirsch)

NEW YORK – Time was ticking for a verdict to be handed down as the jury in former President Donald Trump’s trial resumed deliberations Thursday.

Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex.

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They revisited portions of the judge’s instructions and reheard testimony from multiple key witnesses about the alleged scheme at the heart of the history-making case.

The judge responded to a jury request by rereading 30 pages of jury instructions. The 12-person jury, which deliberated for about 4 1/2 hours Wednesday without reaching a verdict, also reheard testimony Thursday morning from a tabloid publisher and Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer.

What do you think? Will the verdict change your vote in the upcoming election? Let us know below:


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