Donald Trump awaits a jury’s verdict in his hush money trial. Prosecutors charged him with 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Donald Trump whined about his hush money trial as the jury began its deliberations on Wednesday (May 29). Trump mentioned Saint Teresa of Calcutta, better known as Mother Teresa, while discussing his criminal case outside a New York courtroom. Trump continued ranting about the trial on his Truth Social platform. He repeated his Mother Teresa line, reposted a bunch of Fox News clips and attacked President Joe Biden as well as actor Robert De Niro. Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Each count carries up to four years in prison, but he would likely serve them concurrently if convicted and sentenced to time behind bars. The hush money case was Trump’s first criminal case to go to trial. He was indicted four times in 2023. Trump was charged with 91 felony counts in his four criminal cases.
Trump faced up to 20 years in prison for some of the charges. Trump pleaded not guilty to all the charges, which included allegations of election interference and mishandling classified documents.