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Axios reports: After a day of holding its fire, the Biden campaign late Friday blasted Donald Trump as a “convicted felon” — an indication the president’s team has decided to seize upon Trump’s conviction to question his fitness for the White House. The broadside from Biden’s campaign — in a press release [see below] chiding Trump for his “unhinged” rant …

CNBC reports: The Florida federal judge overseeing the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump has been the target of more than 1,000 complaints in just one week this month raising allegations of her handling of the case, a top appeals court judge revealed in an order. Many of the complaints” against Cannon filed with the 11th Circuit …

Reuters reports: Ten percent of Republican registered voters say they are less likely to vote for Donald Trump following his felony conviction for falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Friday. The two-day poll, conducted in the hours after the Republican presidential candidate’s conviction by …

NBC News reports: Advance Democracy, a non-profit that conducts public interest research, said there has been a high volume of social media posts containing violent rhetoric targeting New York Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, including a post with Bragg’s purported home address. The group also found posts of the purported addresses of jurors on a fringe …

“The American principle that no one is above the law was reaffirmed. Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself. It was a state case, not a federal case, and it was heard by a jury of 12 citizens, 12 Americans, 12 people like you. “Like millions of Americans who served on juries, this jury was chosen the same …

The New York Post reports: Melania Trump and son Barron were at Trump Tower, sources tell Page Six, in the wake of the guilty verdict against former president Donald Trump. But the former first lady was keeping a low profile, after having not appeared at court in his case. It’s unclear exactly when Melania, 54, and Barron, 18, arrived at …

“Democrats will rue the day they decided to use lawfare to stop a presidential candidate. I’m not talking about violence, I’m talking about tit-for-tat. You just wait. And it won’t be Hunter Biden the next time, it’s going to be Joe Biden. It could potentially still be Barack Obama. It could still potentially be Hillary Clinton. “We’re going to have …

ABC News reports: Former President Donald Trump is set to address reporters on Friday morning — the day after being found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush-money trial. Trump will speak from the atrium of Trump Tower just feet away from the golden escalator he rode down in 2015 when he kicked off his first bid for president. …

The Associated Press reports: Trump’s campaign said it has raised a record $34.8 million in small-dollar online contributions off his conviction — nearly double its previous largest haul. The campaign advisors said nearly 30% of Thursday’s donors were new to the fundraising platform. “From just minutes after the sham trial verdict was announced, our digital fundraising system was overwhelmed with …

Glorious snark from the Queens Daily Eagle newspaper: Former Jamaica Estates resident Donald Trump was convicted by a Manhattan jury on Thursday of 34 counts of falsifying business records in an effort to cover up a sex scandal he feared would ruin his chances of winning the 2016 presidential election. The jury’s verdict, which came after only two days of …

“He got caught, you know, with his hand in the cookie jar, so to speak. So he’s not happy. This shouldn’t be a surprise but, I mean, this is how a man runs his business and I don’t think he’s gonna change who he is, quite frankly. He’s never gonna show remorse over this conviction and, you know, he’s gonna …

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk criticized the verdict that made Donald Trump the first former American president to be criminally convicted Thursday, with the Tesla boss claiming that the trial had been politically motivated. Musk moaned that the history-making outcome of the trial is bad news for all Americans. “Indeed, great damage was done today to the public’s faith …

The Associated Press reports: Donald Trump may be convicted of a felony and reside in Florida, a state notorious for restricting the voting rights of people with felony convictions. But he can still vote as long as he stays out of prison in New York state. That’s because Florida defers to other states’ disenfranchisement rules for residents convicted of out-of-state …

Axios reports: Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told CNN Thursday evening after Trump became the first sitting or former U.S. president convicted of a felony that the defense team was “prepared for a conviction” and they would “vigorously fight” by filing motions before Judge Juan Merchan in a couple of weeks. Blanche told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins the legal team would outline …

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump Jr. demoted the United States to “third-world shithole” status on Thursday after a jury in New York convicted his father Donald Trump. Like his son, the elder Trump has spoken of “shithole countries.” As president in 2018, Trump lamented the lack of immigrants coming to the U.S. from places like Norway. “Why are we having all …

Politico reports: Donald Trump is already trying to turn his historic criminal conviction into a campaign cash windfall. Moments after a jury handed down a guilty verdict on 34 counts of falsifying business records, Trump’s campaign flipped his website to a verdict-themed fundraising funnel. Trump followed it up by putting out a siren on his Truth Social account calling himself …

Politico reports: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg begins his press conference by thanking the jury and outlining the work they did throughout the trial, including reviewing call logs, text messages, emails and bank statements, in addition to listening to testimony. “This type of white-collar prosecution is core to what we do at the Manhattan District Attorney’s office,” Bragg says before …

“In 2016, the presidential race was decided based on candidates releasing lists of potential Supreme Court nominees. In 2024, I want to see lists of which Democrat officials are going to be put in prison. This is what happens when you cross the Rubicon. The battle within the Republican Party from here on out will be between those who understand …

Deadline reports: “This was a disgrace,” a solemn-looking Donald Trump said today outside the courtroom minutes after the guilty verdicts were read in the hush-money trial. “This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who was corrupt.” He added later, “We will fight for our Constitution — this is long from over.” “It was a rigged trial. A disgrace, …

“I want to believe that Americans believe in justice. And I think that in their gut, they realize that there is something that is very wrong here. We have gone over a cliff in America. This verdict is a verdict of someone who was forced to fight a 1,000 pound gorilla with both hands tied behind his back. “This was …