The term ‘unprecedented’ is misused almost as frequently as ‘literally’. But the news last night that former US president Donald Trump had been found guilty on all 34 charges, including the use of falsified business records to conceal payments over an alleged affair with the porn star Stormy Daniels, is indeed unprecedented.
It makes Trump the first US president to be criminally convicted, and he now faces sentencing on July 11 — four days before the start of the Republican National Convention where he will be formally adopted as the party’s nominee for president.
