Could Trump pardon himself if he wins in November?

Donald Trump has made history once again by becoming the first US president ever convicted of a crime.

On Thursday, a jury found the former president guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to a hush money payment to a porn star.

Stormy Daniels alleged that she had an affair with Trump in 2006, something the former president has denied outright. Even so, shortly before the 2016 presidential election, Daniels received a $130,000 payment from Trump’s then-fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen.

Cohen was later reimbursed for the payment — reimbursements that were fraudulently logged as legal expenses.

A jury of 12 New Yorkers has now found that Trump falsified those business records as part of a plot to interfere with the election by hiding negative information about himself from voters.

“This was a rigged, disgraceful trial,” Trump raged outside the courtroom on Thursday.

“The real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people, and they know what happened here,” he added, referencing the 2024 presidential election.

“I’m a very innocent man,” he said.

Trump is set to be sentenced on 11 July at 10am.

So now it comes down to this: a convicted felon could become the next president of the US, and could even wind up running the country from prison.

But can Trump pardon himself if he wins in November?

From a legal standpoint, if he becomes president, Trump could pardon himself for any federal convictions.

But he could not pardon himself for any convictions on the state level, such as his conviction in New York.

“The state and federal systems in the United States are completely separate,” Steve Duffy, a jury consultant at Trial Behavior Consulting, told The Independent prior to the verdict.

“The only