Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
All of the major cable news networks delivered second-by-second coverage of the verdicts as they announced today finding Donald Trump guilty of 34 (of 34) felony counts related to the falsification of records related to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels.
Watch Fox News below. CNN: MSNBC:BREAKING: Donald Trump found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business documents in New York pic.twitter.com/Yq8LWihvRx With today’s verdicts, Trump becomes the first former U.S.
President to be found guilty of a crime. The verdict follows nine hours and 44 minutes of deliberations, per MSNBC. Inside the courtroom as the verdicts were read, Trump sat motionless between his attorneys, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove.
Blanche asked for all of the jurors to be polled, and they all affirmed their guilty verdicts. The judge, Juan Merchan, then rejected Blanche’s motion to set aside the verdict.
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