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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg released a statement Thursday evening after a jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felony charges tied to a ‘hush money’ payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election earlier in the day.

“I did my job. Our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor. And that’s exactly what we did here. And what I feel is gratitude to work alongside phenomenal public servants who do that each and every day in matters that you all write about.… I did my job. We did our job. Many voices out there. The only voice that matters is the voice of the jury. And the jury has spoken,” Bragg said Thursday evening, as reported by Fox News.

“The 12 everyday jurors vowed to make a decision based on the evidence and the law, and the evidence and the law alone. Their deliberations led them to a unanimous conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Donald J. Trump, is guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree to conceal a scheme to corrupt the 2016 election,” Bragg added during his press conference, going on to claim that such white collar crimes are at the “core to what we do at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.”

“While this defendant may be unlike any other in American history, we arrived at this trial and ultimately today at this verdict, in the same manner as every other case that comes to the courtroom doors by following the facts and the law and doing so without fear or favor,” he said.

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Trump also addressed the media outside the Manhattan courtroom following the verdict.

“This was a rigged, disgraceful trial. The real verdict is going to be Nov. 5 by the people,” Trump he said.

For weeks, liberal and conservative legal experts said Trump had committed no crimes and that Bragg — who initially declined to pursue the case but changed his mind after Trump declared he was running again for the presidency — essentially manufactured the 34 counts, many of which had already expired under New York statutes of limitation.

Bragg alleged, among other things, that Trump violated federal election law in that he was attempting to hide the payment to Daniels in order to protect his 2016 campaign. But the Federal Election Commission ruled in 2018 they had found no such violations. Also, the federal Southern District of New York declined to pursue any charges in the case, as did Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance Jr.

“This was a rigged decision right from day one. With a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case. Never. And we will fight for our Constitution. This is long from over,” Trump further declared.

“Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats confined President Trump to a courtroom for more than eight hours a day for more than six weeks, and he’s still winning,” Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital separately. “Now that he is fully back on the campaign trial, Biden and the Democrats better buckle up.”

She also said Trump “generated billions of dollars in earned media coverage throughout the trial, hosted massive rallies and impromptu campaign stops in New York and beyond, increased his lead over crooked Joe Biden in the polls, and raised more money than Biden and the Democrats in the month of April. Not even a witch-hunt trial could slow him down. In fact, it only made him stronger.”

During the trial, Trump visited a bodega in Harlem where the owner was initially charged by Bragg for murdering a black man who was assaulting him. While there, a mob of supporters shouted Trump’s name and offered stunning support.

“We’re going to come in. No. 1, you have to stop crime, and we’re going to let the police do their job. They have to be given back their authority. They have to be able to do their job,” Trump said at the time. “And we’re going to come into New York. We’re making a big play for New York, other cities, too. But this city, I love this city.”

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