Q&A on Trump’s Criminal Conviction

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Donald Trump became the first U.S. president, current or former, to be convicted of a criminal offense when a 12-person jury in New York on May 30 found him guilty on 34 felony counts of business fraud as part of an illegal scheme to influence the 2016 election by making payments to suppress a sordid tale of sex with a porn star. The unprecedented conviction raises questions about what’s next for the 77-year-old man who is in line to become the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 2024. In remarks at Trump Tower a day after his conviction, Trump called the United States “a corrupt country” and declared that he would be “appealing this scam.” (Trump also repeated many of the false, misleading and unsupported claims he has made about the judge, the judge’s rulings, the district attorney and other issues related to the trial. For more about Trump’s talking points, see our May 30 article, “Trump’s Repeated Claims on His New York Hush Money Trial.” He also repeated false and unsubstantiated claims on other issues, such as taxes and migrants.) Here, we answer some of the questions raised by...