Trump was just convicted of conspiracy and fraud. He could still win re-election | Lloyd Green

Trump was just convicted of conspiracy and fraud. He could still win re-election | Lloyd Green

The ex-president lost a hush-money trial in New York. But if you think that will keep him from the Oval Office, think again

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.

Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York and served in the US Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992

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