Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records set off a political firestorm in Washington and beyond, with Republicans furiously lambasting the verdict as a miscarriage of justice while Democrats commended New York jurors for rendering a fair judgment in one of the US’s most historic trials.
Republicans unsurprisingly rallied around the former president , reiterating their baseless allegations that the Biden administration had engaged in political persecution of the former US president.