The jury finds Donald Trump guilty of bribing former porn actress Stormy Daniels

first criminal trial of the former president of the United States Donald Trump They found the tycoon guilty of a total of 34 charges falsification of business documents within a plot in which he allegedly tried to conceal the $130,000 payment to former porn actress Stormy Daniels to buy her silence.

The jury, which has been asked to review various parts of the testimony and listen again to the judge's instructions, deliberated for more than nine hours over two days to reach this final conclusion, the American network NBC News reported.

This investigation was initiated by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office following an alleged scheme by the mogul to bury several sexual scandals in the media during the 2016 presidential election campaign.

According to prosecutors, Trump's then lawyer Michael Cohenwho was also vice president of the Trump Organization, managed the payment to Clifford by providing the said amount from his own pocket, and the former president reimbursed him for the amount hidden in various legal fees in the company's records.

The tycoon was charged in the bribery case in March 2023. The former president is also facing a federal case against him for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in which current president Joe Biden won.