Convicted felon Donald Trump to be sentenced on July 11 following guilty verdict: Live updates

Donald Trump has been found guilty on all counts at his hush money trial, becoming the first criminally convicted US president in history.

He sat emotionless as the jury convicted him on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 election. Ms Daniels says that they had a sexual encounter in 2006, which Trump denies.

Trump, the presumptive Republican candidate in the 2024 race, is the first convicted felon to run for the White House.

“I am a very innocent man,” Trump said in the hallway of the courthouse after the verdict was read. Herailed against the trial calling it “rigged” and “a disgrace”, before saying that the “country was going to hell”.

The jury of 12 New Yorkers deliberated for approximately 10 hours at the Manhattan court before handing down the verdict.

Trump will return to Manhattan criminal court on July 11th for sentencing.

Alex Woodward is covering the trial for The Independent live from court.

Members of the public gathered outside the courtroom in New York, shared their reactions to the trial with The Independent following the historic verdict.

Karen Irwin, bartender from New York. Today is her 49th birthday:

On the jurors, she said: “They took time, they took care, they wanted the system to work. And they were a part of what happens when the system does work, not just because they reached a guilty verdict, but because they use their brains because they thought about things like the system can’t work if people aren’t freaking thinking. So I would say thank you for thinking.

Peyton Bryant, a lawyer from New York:

“I mean, everyone wants to pick on the fact that he slept with a woman, but it’s really not about that. It’s about