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Biden also approved Israel’s ceasefire proposal. Here’s the last one at the end of Friday.
By Matthieu Cullen
Donald Trump tried to take advantage of his felony conviction, delivering a 33-minute speech loaded with baseless attacks on the prosecution team and the presiding judge, as well as other lies and misleading claims.
He also said he would appeal his conviction, a procedure that could take months or even years to resolve. Trump’s crusade announced it had raised a record $34. 8 million hours after the jury found him guilty of all 34 counts of tampering with business records.
Republicans used the first felon conviction of a former president as a rallying cry: to win money for the campaign, for congressional hearings and to motivate the electorate to vote in November.
President Biden has damaged his long silence on Trump’s legal issues, calling the former president’s comments reckless, harmful and irresponsible.
How will the conviction influence the elections? Nobody knows. But, as my colleagues Lisa Lerer and Shane Goldmacher explain, it will create unprecedented strain control on American legal institutions and the country’s ability to hold elections amid some of the partisan tensions in decades.
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