Don Jr rages against Trump guilty conviction: “Such bulls***”

Republicans are raging against the Manhattan jury which found former president Donald Trump guilty on all criminal counts at his hush money trial on Thursday.

Trump was found guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an effort to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. He was accused of covering up reimbursement payments to then-attorney Michael Cohen for $130,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels, whose story about having sex with Trump threatened to derail his campaign.

Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr was among the first to react on social media.

“Such bulls***,” Don Jr said. On Wednesday, he had shared a video with his father from inside the Manhattan courthouse joking about writing mean tweets.

“Guilty on all counts,” Don Jr added. “The Democrats have succeeded in their years long attempt to turn America into a third-world shithole. November 5 is our last chance to save it.”

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who served as Trump’s lawyer, also decried the ruling, trashing the city he led for eight years. “This city has been politically corrupt for most of the past 150 years,” he said. “You knew on day one Trump was going to be convicted.”

Republicans in the highest and lowest ranks in the party decried the guilty verdict as election interference or an attempt to keep Trump off the campaign trail.

Throughout the trial, numerous made the trek to New York City to show their solidarity with the twice-impeached-quadruple-indicted former president. Everyone from back-bench members of the House of Representatives, to governors and attorney generals appeared at the courthouse.

Many Republicans did so in the name of circumventing the gag order that Judge Juan Merchan placed on Mr