FACT FOCUS: Trump responds to guilty verdict with attacks and false claims

Former President Donald Trump on Friday addressed his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in what prosecutors have called a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election by paying hush money to silence the accounts of women who claimed to have extramarital sex with him. While making his comments he repeated numerous false or unsupported claims that he has made not only during the trial but while campaigning for a second term as president. His comments, made from Trump Tower, ranged from blaming the Biden administration for orchestrating the hush money case to other false claims about the trial and other issues facing the country.

Here’s a look at some of those claims.

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CLAIM: “This is all done by Biden and his people.”

THE FACTS: Throughout the trial Trump has said, without evidence, that the indictments were politically orchestrated by Democratic President Joe Biden and his administration in an effort to keep him out of the White House. But Biden and his administration have no control over this prosecution.

The case was brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a state-level prosecutor. His office does not work for the Justice Department or any White House office. On Friday, Biden called Trump’s response to the jury’s guilty verdict “irresponsible.”

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