Live updates: Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in historic hush money trial

Donald Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche has denounced the trial as unfair and said they will “vigorously fight” against it with motions that are due in a few weeks, according to CNN.

“There was so much publicity around the witnesses and around – leading up to the trial that our system of justice isn’t supposed to be a system where every person who walks into the courtroom knows about the case,” he told the outlet.

He said that if their fight is not successful, the legal team will appeal following the sentencing in July.

“Every single person on the jury knew Donald Trump as president, as candidate, from ‘The Apprentice’ so I don’t accept that this was a fair place to try President Trump,” Mr Blanche said.

“The law says a person is entitled to a fair trial in front of a jury of their peers and we just think that because of everything around the lead up this trial, it made it very difficult for the jury to evaluate the evidence kind of independent of what they knew coming in,” Mr Blanche said.

Stormy Daniels was “very emotional” after Donald Trump was convicted on all 34 counts at his criminal hush money trial in New York, both her lawyer and her husband told CNN on Thursday.

Ms Daniels played a central role in the case – the hush money payments that Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid to her were a key part of the evidence in convicting the former president.

The wife of Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and their son, Barron Trump, are in New York, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.

It was not immediately clear when they arrived but the two were in the city when Trump was handed a guilty verdict by the court on Thursday.

The former first lady, however, was not present at the fundraiser dinner event with Trump at a private residence last night in New York City.

Donald Trump’s campaign are already using his guilty verdict in New York to push for fundraising for his presidential campaign.

Barely 15 mins after the guilty verdict was returned, an email from the Trump campaign appeared in subscriber inboxes.

“I was just convicted in a RIGGED political witchhunt trial: I DID NOTHING WRONG,” the email read.

“They’ve raided my home, arrested me, took my mugshot AND NOW THEY’VE JUST CONVICTED ME! But with your support at this moment in history, WE WILL WIN BACK THE WHITE HOUSE AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”

The former first daughter, who also served as a special advisor during Trump’s time in office, posted a heartfelt message to her Instagram shortly after her father was convicted in New York on Thursday.

The Biden-Harris campaign released a statement following Donald Trump’s historic guilty verdict, saying that the convicted former president must now be defeated “at the ballot box”.

The statement from comms director Michael Tyler read: “In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law.

“Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain. But today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality.

“There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box.

“Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president. The threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater. He is running an increasingly unhinged campaign of revenge and retribution, pledging to be a dictator ‘on day one’ and calling for our Constitution to be ‘terminated’ so he can regain and keep power.

“A second Trump term means chaos, ripping away Americans’ freedoms and fomenting political violence – and the American people will reject it this November.”

Donald Trump has been found guilty of falsifying business records as part of a conspiracy to corruptly influence the 2016 presidential election, marking the first-ever criminal conviction of an American president, who will now campaign once again for the White House as a convicted felon and fraud.

The former president – who refused to testify in his own defense – could be sentenced to up to four years in jail and face thousands of dollars in fines.

Ivanka Trump has broken her silence following her father’s guilty verdict in his high profile criminal trial.

The former First Daughter posted a picture of herself as a young girl sat on her father’s lap to her Instagram story on Thursday evening, shortly after the verdict in Manhattan was returned.

“I love you dad,” she wrote, adding a heart emoji.