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We're stopping our live coverage of the day after the historic verdict in the "hush-money trial", that found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts for fraudulently recording payments tied to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.
And you can watch reporter Kayla Epstein describe what it was like to be in court when the verdict was announced here.
We'll be back to cover the next chapter in this story and remember Trump is due to be sentenced July 11.
Our writers and question answerers today were Madeline Halpert, Holly Honderich, Brandon Drenon, Ana Faguy, Caitlin Wilson, Mike Wendling, Anthony Zurcher and George Wright. Our editors were Tiffany Wertheimer and me, Lisa Lambert.
What has happened so far today
The day after the first-ever criminal conviction of a former president has been eventful, to say the least.
Here are some major moments.
Trump said this morning he will appeal the verdict. Speaking from Trump Tower, the same place where he announced his candidacy in the 2016 presidential election and a site frequently mentioned during the trial, he said: "We're going to be appealing this scam."
In the speech, which lasted about 40 minutes ,he also blasted the judge, star witness Michael Cohen, District Attorney Alvin Bragg and President Joe Biden, while saying he had wanted to testify in the trial and bringing up concerns about crime in New York. Our correspondent Anthony Zurcher said the remarks appeared to be "more of a venting session" and were reminiscent of his political rallies.
Later in the day, Biden responded to Trump's speech as part of a nationally televised address from the White House about the Israel-Hamas war. He called for respecting the American justice system and rejected Trump's allegation that the case was "rigged", saying: "It's reckless. It's dangerous. It's irresponsible."
Trump's presidential campaign said it raised a staggering $34.8 million in six hours following the verdict.
Stock prices for Trump's media company, which operates Truth Social, plunged when stock markets opened in the morning and then bounced around for most of the day. By late afternoon they were down more than 5%.
Advance Democracy, a non-profit research group, said it had detected a high volume of violent online rhetoric, including calls to hang Justice Merchan, but had not uncovered any concrete plans.
And finally, as Republican anger grew over the verdict, eight conservative senators announced they would no longer cooperate with the White House, pledging to block increases in non-security funding and Biden political and judicial appointees.
Republican senators threaten political revenge
Eight Republican senators have pledged to stop working with the White House, a seeming reaction to Thursday's historic verdict.
The group made up of conservative heavyweights - Mike Lee, JD Vance, Tommy Tuberville, Eric Schmitt, Marsha Blackburn, Rick Scott, Roger Marshall and Marco Rubio - did not mention the verdict directly in a letter published Friday.
But they all supported Trump throughout the case, with at least four visiting the courthouse during the trial and many repeating Trump's allegation that the White House was using the case to hurt him politically. The case was brought by the Manhattan District Attorney, not the US justice department, and tried in a state court.
They all also publicly decried the verdict on Thursday and Friday, with Rubio calling the process a "show trial".
In posting their letter to X, formerly Twitter, Lee said they would refuse to work with the White House because it has turned the judicial system into a "political cudgel".
"The White House has made a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways," the letter reads.
They did not explain how they believe the President Joe Biden's administration has hurt the judicial system.
Here are the things they promised:
They will not allow any increase to non-security funding for the Biden administration
They will not vote to confirm any Biden administration political or juridical appointees
They will not expedite consideration and passage of "Democrat legislation" that is not relevant to "the safety of the American people"
Democrats currently control the Senate, but under the chamber's rules, a single senator or small group can block confirmations and other votes.
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Listen: 5 Questions On
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The BBC's 5 Questions On podcast has a new episode out now with all the answers about what happens next following Donald Trump's felony conviction.
Nada Tawfik, our New York correspondent who has been closely covering this trial, explores whether Trump can still run for president, if there is a chance he could go to prison, and more.
Video caption: 'Reckless' to say Trump verdict was 'rigged' - Biden'Reckless' to say Trump verdict was 'rigged' - Biden
Here is some more of Biden's statement just now at the White House.
He noted that Trump will have the ability to appeal the verdict (Trump said earlier he would).
"Just like everyone else has that opportunity," Biden said. "That's how the
American system of justice works".
He also appeared to offer counterpoints to many of the statements Trump made in a speech earlier, noting, for example, that the case was in a state court, not a federal one.
"It's reckless. It's dangerous. It's irresponsible for
anyone to say this was rigged," he said.
"Our justice system has endured for nearly 250 years."
He then took a more sombre tone, saying America's justice system should be "respected" and "we should never allow anyone to tear it down".
"It's as simple as that. That's America. That's who we are. That's who we will always be, God willing."
Biden speaks about verdict during White House remarks
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Biden spoke in the White House's State Dining Room, before a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.Image caption: Biden spoke in the White House's State Dining Room, before a portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Biden just addressed the verdict at the beginning of a speech on the Middle East at the White House.
"Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself," he said
"The jury heard five weeks of evidence, and after careful deliberation the jury reached a unanimous verdict on all 34 felony counts."
"That's how the American system of justice works," Biden said
He added that someone saying the system is "rigged" just because they don't like the verdict is irresponsible, alluding to Trump's remarks earlier today at Trump Tower.
Judge and jurors targeted by online threats
Mike Wendling
US national digital reporter
The verdict
has produced – perhaps predictably – howls of outrage and even threats against
the people involved in the case against Donald Trump.
Advance
Democracy, a non-profit research group, says it has detected a high volume of violent
online rhetoric. There are calls to hang Justice Merchan and march with guns on Washington. But, the organization notes, no one is discussing specific details or concrete
plans.
On fringe message
boards and messaging apps, there have been calls to release personal
information about the jurors and others involved in the case.
But the
jurors have so far remained anonymous, and some of the information circulating looks bogus. On one extreme message board, purported addresses of two jurors
were posted. However, the addresses were located in the New York City boroughs
of Queens and Brooklyn. The jury was drawn from only one part of the city, and from a different borough - Manhattan.
Many of Trump’s hardcore supporters also fear that they are
being somehow goaded into rioting or violence
A top
comment on a rabidly pro-Trump message board this morning said: “Feds pumping
the next new false flag."
That's an allusion to a popular unsubstantiated conspiracy
theory that says US federal agents routinely stage violent events just to make
Trump supporters look bad.
Curious tourists look on outside Trump Tower
Pratiksha Ghildial
Reporting from New York
There has also been a crowd of amused tourists looking over at the melee of
media and Donald Trump supporters thronging outside Trump Tower.
Some of them are taking pictures
of the building itself. Kevin and Teresa Beasley are visiting New York from North Carolina, so they
decided to head over to Trump Tower after the heard the news about the former president's conviction.
Kevin says he hears a lot about America being a
divided nation, but he also believes a vast majority of Americans think this is
the best country.
"I am satisfied with the way the trial was conducted," he says. "This is just a demonstration of the rights we have as Americans."
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Timeline: Key dates in Trump's legal and electoral campaign
Donald Trump is heading towards an election rematch with Joe Biden in November, and this time he will do so as a convicted felon.
He still faces three more criminal cases that have not been tried yet, but lots of those key dates are yet to be confirmed.
Here's a timeline of key dates to keep on the calendar for the next few weeks.
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What to read to catch-up
There are lots of questions over what this means - and the BBC's North America team has addressed many of them.
Meanwhile, back on the street outside Trump Tower, a small group of supporters and some curious onlookers have gathered.
One supporter is holding a flag that rather dramatically reads “Trump or Death”.
Another is shouting some colourful language about the Democrats and how Donald Trump is being targeted by the party.
George Dallas tells the BBC that he is here because the former president needs his family today and he considers himself an extension of that.
“Every law scholar says this was a sham trial," he says, somewhat parroting what Trump has been saying since the trial got under way.
Trump Media shares fall after guilty verdict
Natalie Sherman
New York business reporter
Shares in Donald Trump’s social media company sank in after-hours trading when the jury delivered its guilty verdict, bounced back, then started sinking again when markets opened this morning.
Such quick turns are no surprise. Since its formal debut on the stock market this spring, Trump Media, operator of Truth Social, has often seen dramatic daily swings in its share price.
If anything, the moves (for now) appear relatively muted.
As of mid-morning in New York, the share price was down about 5%, trading around $49 apiece.
That implies Trump's stake is worth more than $3.8bn.
For now, he is barred from selling his holdings, but those restrictions are set to lift later this summer.
Analysis
Trump seems more weary than angry
John Sudworth
North America Correspondent, reporting from inside Trump Tower
Despite the fury with which Trump has been traducing the American legal system in his online posts, at times he seemed more weary than angry.
Have the long weeks of the trial worn him down? Has that history-making tidal wave of 34 guilty verdicts taken its toll? Or maybe the downcast demeanour of the persecuted is good for business?
He received the largest cheer from assembled staff and family members when he mentioned that the campaign had raised records amounts of money in the few hours since the guilty verdict.
Trump confirmed he'll appeal his conviction
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During his approximately 40-minute speech, Trump confirmed he plans to appeal his conviction.
"We're gong to be appealing this scam," he said.
"We're going to be appealing it on many different things," Trump added, complaining about the conduct of Justice Juan Merchan.
"He wouldn't allow us to have witnesses, he wouldn't allow us to talk, he wouldn't allow us to do anything. The judge was a tyrant."
Trump’s misleading Daily Mail poll claim
Mike Wendling
US national digital reporter
Several times
in his speech, Trump mentioned a Daily Mail poll indicating that his standing among voters rose immediately after the verdict.
“The Daily
Mail just came out with a poll and it has Trump up six points in the last 12
hours,” he said. “Six points since this happened. Who thought this could
happen?"
However, the
poll was measuring favourability and not, as Trump implied, voting intention.
The
pollsters asked an online panel of 400 likely voters whether their view of
Trump had changed. While 16% said that their view of the former president had
turned more negative, 22% said they saw Trump in a more positive light.
Most voters said
the verdict hadn’t changed their perception of Trump. And his overall favourabilty/unfavourability numbers were split almost evenly: 49%-48%.
James
Johnson, who conducted the poll, told the paper: “Our snap poll of a
representative sample of likely voters shows that for most Americans the trial
has not changed their deep-set views of Trump.”
The real effect of the guilty verdict on the presidential
race – if any – will only become clear in the days and weeks ahead.
Trump also took aim at congressional committee that investigated the Capitol riot
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Toward the end of his remarks, Trump turned his attention the riot at the Capitol by a crowd of his supporters on 6 January, 2021.
He hit out at the congressional committee tasked with investigating the events of that day, including Trump's own actions.
"They call it the select committee, I call it the unselect committee of thugs," he said, criticising the makeup of the panel of mostly Democrats and two "wayward" Republicans, both of whom are no longer in congress: Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney.
Costello, the witness who muttered 'jeez', was treated badly, Trump said
Trump in his remarks frequenly bashed the trial and Justice Juan Merchan, calling him a "tyrant".
"You saw that with Bob Costello," Trump says, referring to one of the two witnesses the defence called, Robert Costello, a lawyer who once advised Michael Cohen.
Costello "acted upset" Trump says, because of how unfairly he was treated.
"I've never seen anyone be treated that badly by a judge," he says.
At one point, Merchan cleared the courtroom to reprimand Costello, who was noticeably frustrated on the stand while testifying and clashed with the judge and prosecutors, at one point audibly muttering "jeez".
Trump finishes speaking
Tiffany Wertheimer
US Reporter
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Donald Trump has now finished speaking, after about 40 minutes.
His son and daughter-in-law, Eric and Lara Trump were in the crowd, however it's interesting to note that no one from his family - nor his legal or campaign team - were standing with the former president, during what is quite an important moment for him.
Stick with us, we have more lines from his conference, and analysis to bring you.
Analysis
Analysis - Typical Trump venting session
Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent
If there is a defined campaign strategy behind Donald Trump’s remarks, which
is still ongoing, it is not apparent.
The former president has been speaking
for nearly 40 minutes now, and it is the kind of stream-of-consciousness remarks
that are more typical of his political rallies.
He’s lashed
out at New York prosecutors and the judge who presided in his case, lamented the
unfairness of his felony conviction and questioned the veracity of some of the
witnesses.
This is
more of a venting session than anything else – perhaps good for the psyche of a
man who received a historic legal defeat yesterday.
Turning back to campaign, Trump says verdict helped him raise millions
After spending some 20 minutes talking solely about the criminal case, Trump turns his attention to the campaign trail, specifically fundraising.
Trump says he raised $39 million in a "record period".
This morning the Trump campaign announced they raised $34.8 million in 6
hours from the verdict.
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Edited by Lisa Lambert
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We're stopping our live coverage of the day after the historic verdict in the "hush-money trial", that found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts for fraudulently recording payments tied to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.
You can find our latest news story here: Biden: 'Reckless' to say Trump trial 'was rigged'.
And you can watch reporter Kayla Epstein describe what it was like to be in court when the verdict was announced here.
We'll be back to cover the next chapter in this story and remember Trump is due to be sentenced July 11.
Our writers and question answerers today were Madeline Halpert, Holly Honderich, Brandon Drenon, Ana Faguy, Caitlin Wilson, Mike Wendling, Anthony Zurcher and George Wright. Our editors were Tiffany Wertheimer and me, Lisa Lambert.
What has happened so far today
The day after the first-ever criminal conviction of a former president has been eventful, to say the least.
Here are some major moments.
Trump said this morning he will appeal the verdict. Speaking from Trump Tower, the same place where he announced his candidacy in the 2016 presidential election and a site frequently mentioned during the trial, he said: "We're going to be appealing this scam."
In the speech, which lasted about 40 minutes ,he also blasted the judge, star witness Michael Cohen, District Attorney Alvin Bragg and President Joe Biden, while saying he had wanted to testify in the trial and bringing up concerns about crime in New York. Our correspondent Anthony Zurcher said the remarks appeared to be "more of a venting session" and were reminiscent of his political rallies.
Later in the day, Biden responded to Trump's speech as part of a nationally televised address from the White House about the Israel-Hamas war. He called for respecting the American justice system and rejected Trump's allegation that the case was "rigged", saying: "It's reckless. It's dangerous. It's irresponsible."
Trump's presidential campaign said it raised a staggering $34.8 million in six hours following the verdict.
Stock prices for Trump's media company, which operates Truth Social, plunged when stock markets opened in the morning and then bounced around for most of the day. By late afternoon they were down more than 5%.
Advance Democracy, a non-profit research group, said it had detected a high volume of violent online rhetoric, including calls to hang Justice Merchan, but had not uncovered any concrete plans.
And finally, as Republican anger grew over the verdict, eight conservative senators announced they would no longer cooperate with the White House, pledging to block increases in non-security funding and Biden political and judicial appointees.
Republican senators threaten political revenge
Eight Republican senators have pledged to stop working with the White House, a seeming reaction to Thursday's historic verdict.
The group made up of conservative heavyweights - Mike Lee, JD Vance, Tommy Tuberville, Eric Schmitt, Marsha Blackburn, Rick Scott, Roger Marshall and Marco Rubio - did not mention the verdict directly in a letter published Friday.
But they all supported Trump throughout the case, with at least four visiting the courthouse during the trial and many repeating Trump's allegation that the White House was using the case to hurt him politically. The case was brought by the Manhattan District Attorney, not the US justice department, and tried in a state court.
They all also publicly decried the verdict on Thursday and Friday, with Rubio calling the process a "show trial".
In posting their letter to X, formerly Twitter, Lee said they would refuse to work with the White House because it has turned the judicial system into a "political cudgel".
"The White House has made a mockery of the rule of law and fundamentally altered our politics in un-American ways," the letter reads.
They did not explain how they believe the President Joe Biden's administration has hurt the judicial system.
Here are the things they promised:
Democrats currently control the Senate, but under the chamber's rules, a single senator or small group can block confirmations and other votes.
Listen: 5 Questions On
The BBC's 5 Questions On podcast has a new episode out now with all the answers about what happens next following Donald Trump's felony conviction.
Nada Tawfik, our New York correspondent who has been closely covering this trial, explores whether Trump can still run for president, if there is a chance he could go to prison, and more.
Listen here on BBC Sounds.
More from Biden's comments
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Here is some more of Biden's statement just now at the White House.
He noted that Trump will have the ability to appeal the verdict (Trump said earlier he would).
"Just like everyone else has that opportunity," Biden said. "That's how the American system of justice works".
He also appeared to offer counterpoints to many of the statements Trump made in a speech earlier, noting, for example, that the case was in a state court, not a federal one.
"It's reckless. It's dangerous. It's irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged," he said.
"Our justice system has endured for nearly 250 years."
He then took a more sombre tone, saying America's justice system should be "respected" and "we should never allow anyone to tear it down".
"It's as simple as that. That's America. That's who we are. That's who we will always be, God willing."
Biden speaks about verdict during White House remarks
Biden just addressed the verdict at the beginning of a speech on the Middle East at the White House.
"Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself," he said
"The jury heard five weeks of evidence, and after careful deliberation the jury reached a unanimous verdict on all 34 felony counts."
"That's how the American system of justice works," Biden said
He added that someone saying the system is "rigged" just because they don't like the verdict is irresponsible, alluding to Trump's remarks earlier today at Trump Tower.
Judge and jurors targeted by online threats
Mike Wendling
US national digital reporter
The verdict has produced – perhaps predictably – howls of outrage and even threats against the people involved in the case against Donald Trump.
Advance Democracy, a non-profit research group, says it has detected a high volume of violent online rhetoric. There are calls to hang Justice Merchan and march with guns on Washington. But, the organization notes, no one is discussing specific details or concrete plans.
On fringe message boards and messaging apps, there have been calls to release personal information about the jurors and others involved in the case.
But the jurors have so far remained anonymous, and some of the information circulating looks bogus. On one extreme message board, purported addresses of two jurors were posted. However, the addresses were located in the New York City boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn. The jury was drawn from only one part of the city, and from a different borough - Manhattan.
Many of Trump’s hardcore supporters also fear that they are being somehow goaded into rioting or violence
A top comment on a rabidly pro-Trump message board this morning said: “Feds pumping the next new false flag."
That's an allusion to a popular unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that says US federal agents routinely stage violent events just to make Trump supporters look bad.
Curious tourists look on outside Trump Tower
Pratiksha Ghildial
Reporting from New York
There has also been a crowd of amused tourists looking over at the melee of media and Donald Trump supporters thronging outside Trump Tower.
Some of them are taking pictures of the building itself. Kevin and Teresa Beasley are visiting New York from North Carolina, so they decided to head over to Trump Tower after the heard the news about the former president's conviction.
Kevin says he hears a lot about America being a divided nation, but he also believes a vast majority of Americans think this is the best country.
"I am satisfied with the way the trial was conducted," he says. "This is just a demonstration of the rights we have as Americans."
Timeline: Key dates in Trump's legal and electoral campaign
Donald Trump is heading towards an election rematch with Joe Biden in November, and this time he will do so as a convicted felon.
He still faces three more criminal cases that have not been tried yet, but lots of those key dates are yet to be confirmed.
Here's a timeline of key dates to keep on the calendar for the next few weeks.
What to read to catch-up
There are lots of questions over what this means - and the BBC's North America team has addressed many of them.
Firstly, here's a look at why Trump's lawyers lost the trial.
This was the scene in the courtroom and Trump's reaction when the guilty verdict was read out.
And of course, what does this now mean for US politics? Our reporters have several analyses:
Supporters gather outside Trump Tower
Pratiksha Ghildial
Reporting from outside Trump Tower
Meanwhile, back on the street outside Trump Tower, a small group of supporters and some curious onlookers have gathered.
One supporter is holding a flag that rather dramatically reads “Trump or Death”.
Another is shouting some colourful language about the Democrats and how Donald Trump is being targeted by the party.
George Dallas tells the BBC that he is here because the former president needs his family today and he considers himself an extension of that.
“Every law scholar says this was a sham trial," he says, somewhat parroting what Trump has been saying since the trial got under way.
Trump Media shares fall after guilty verdict
Natalie Sherman
New York business reporter
Shares in Donald Trump’s social media company sank in after-hours trading when the jury delivered its guilty verdict, bounced back, then started sinking again when markets opened this morning.
Such quick turns are no surprise. Since its formal debut on the stock market this spring, Trump Media, operator of Truth Social, has often seen dramatic daily swings in its share price.
If anything, the moves (for now) appear relatively muted.
As of mid-morning in New York, the share price was down about 5%, trading around $49 apiece.
That implies Trump's stake is worth more than $3.8bn.
For now, he is barred from selling his holdings, but those restrictions are set to lift later this summer.
Trump seems more weary than angry
John Sudworth
North America Correspondent, reporting from inside Trump Tower
Despite the fury with which Trump has been traducing the American legal system in his online posts, at times he seemed more weary than angry.
Have the long weeks of the trial worn him down? Has that history-making tidal wave of 34 guilty verdicts taken its toll? Or maybe the downcast demeanour of the persecuted is good for business?
He received the largest cheer from assembled staff and family members when he mentioned that the campaign had raised records amounts of money in the few hours since the guilty verdict.
Trump confirmed he'll appeal his conviction
During his approximately 40-minute speech, Trump confirmed he plans to appeal his conviction.
"We're gong to be appealing this scam," he said.
"We're going to be appealing it on many different things," Trump added, complaining about the conduct of Justice Juan Merchan.
"He wouldn't allow us to have witnesses, he wouldn't allow us to talk, he wouldn't allow us to do anything. The judge was a tyrant."
Trump’s misleading Daily Mail poll claim
Mike Wendling
US national digital reporter
Several times in his speech, Trump mentioned a Daily Mail poll indicating that his standing among voters rose immediately after the verdict.
“The Daily Mail just came out with a poll and it has Trump up six points in the last 12 hours,” he said. “Six points since this happened. Who thought this could happen?"
However, the poll was measuring favourability and not, as Trump implied, voting intention.
The pollsters asked an online panel of 400 likely voters whether their view of Trump had changed. While 16% said that their view of the former president had turned more negative, 22% said they saw Trump in a more positive light.
Most voters said the verdict hadn’t changed their perception of Trump. And his overall favourabilty/unfavourability numbers were split almost evenly: 49%-48%.
James Johnson, who conducted the poll, told the paper: “Our snap poll of a representative sample of likely voters shows that for most Americans the trial has not changed their deep-set views of Trump.”
The real effect of the guilty verdict on the presidential race – if any – will only become clear in the days and weeks ahead.
Trump also took aim at congressional committee that investigated the Capitol riot
Toward the end of his remarks, Trump turned his attention the riot at the Capitol by a crowd of his supporters on 6 January, 2021.
He hit out at the congressional committee tasked with investigating the events of that day, including Trump's own actions.
"They call it the select committee, I call it the unselect committee of thugs," he said, criticising the makeup of the panel of mostly Democrats and two "wayward" Republicans, both of whom are no longer in congress: Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney.
Costello, the witness who muttered 'jeez', was treated badly, Trump said
Trump in his remarks frequenly bashed the trial and Justice Juan Merchan, calling him a "tyrant".
"You saw that with Bob Costello," Trump says, referring to one of the two witnesses the defence called, Robert Costello, a lawyer who once advised Michael Cohen.
Costello "acted upset" Trump says, because of how unfairly he was treated.
"I've never seen anyone be treated that badly by a judge," he says.
At one point, Merchan cleared the courtroom to reprimand Costello, who was noticeably frustrated on the stand while testifying and clashed with the judge and prosecutors, at one point audibly muttering "jeez".
Trump finishes speaking
Tiffany Wertheimer
US Reporter
Donald Trump has now finished speaking, after about 40 minutes.
His son and daughter-in-law, Eric and Lara Trump were in the crowd, however it's interesting to note that no one from his family - nor his legal or campaign team - were standing with the former president, during what is quite an important moment for him.
Stick with us, we have more lines from his conference, and analysis to bring you.
Analysis - Typical Trump venting session
Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent
If there is a defined campaign strategy behind Donald Trump’s remarks, which is still ongoing, it is not apparent.
The former president has been speaking for nearly 40 minutes now, and it is the kind of stream-of-consciousness remarks that are more typical of his political rallies.
He’s lashed out at New York prosecutors and the judge who presided in his case, lamented the unfairness of his felony conviction and questioned the veracity of some of the witnesses.
This is more of a venting session than anything else – perhaps good for the psyche of a man who received a historic legal defeat yesterday.
Turning back to campaign, Trump says verdict helped him raise millions
After spending some 20 minutes talking solely about the criminal case, Trump turns his attention to the campaign trail, specifically fundraising.
Trump says he raised $39 million in a "record period".
This morning the Trump campaign announced they raised $34.8 million in 6 hours from the verdict.