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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lloyd Green

Trump is now a convicted felon. He could still win re-election

man wearing blue suit and blue tie waves as police officer stands behind him
‘In the aftermath of his defeat in 2016 in the Iowa caucus and again after losing to Joe Biden in 2020, Trump resorted to the same playbook.’ Photograph: Justin Lane/Reuters

On Thursday, a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of conspiracy and fraud in a case stemming from payments that the former president arranged to cover up an affair with the adult film actor Stormy Daniels. The presumptive Republican nominee is now a convicted felon.

He was already an adjudicated sexual predator and fraudster. Trump once quipped that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. Maybe not.

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