Donald Trump LIVE updates after historic guilty verdict: Former president tells Biden to ‘buckle up’ as he returns to campaign trail

Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt has a message for Biden:

Corrupt Joe Biden and the Democrats have locked President Trump in a courtroom for more than eight hours a day for more than six weeks, and he is still winning.

Now that he is fully back in the campaign process, Biden and the Democrats better buckle up.

Rishi Sunak dodged, saying the case was ‘not my focus’.

However, Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer gave a fuller answer.

He respected the decision of the “independent court” but said he would work with “whoever” is elected US president in November.

Melania Trump remains silent about the verdict.

It is also unclear where Melania Trump is located. This time of year, the Trump family is usually camped out at their spot on the former president’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Mar-a-Lago is closed for the season, but Melania has private rooms there where she can stay. Or she could be in Trump Tower in New York. Or she could be anywhere.

Her office did not respond to DailyMail.com’s repeated requests for comment.

The former first lady and son Barron are the only Trump members not appearing in court with the former president or posting supportive messages on social media.

Don Jr., Eric and Tiffany all appeared in court. Ivanka Trump posted a four-word message on Instagram Thursday evening in support of her father: “I love you, Dad.”

Donald Trump has lost a “winnable case” in which he could have faced a hung jury or escaped with only a misdemeanor charge, legal experts have argued.

The former president was found guilty by a jury of falsifying company records in the so-called ‘hush money’ trial in New York.

Veteran attorneys argue that District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case had weaknesses, despite 200 pieces of evidence and weeks of witness testimony.

But Trump’s lawyers failed to exploit them, confusing the jury by fighting every aspect of the charge and refusing to offer the option of a lesser charge.

The Kremlin said on Friday that Donald Trump’s guilty verdict showed that all legal and illegal means were used in the United States to eliminate political rivals.

Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:

When we talk about Trump, the fact that there is in fact simply the elimination of political rivals by any means necessary, legal and illegal, is clear.

Donald Trump has lost a “winnable case” in which he could have faced a hung jury or escaped with only a misdemeanor charge, legal experts have argued.

The former president was found guilty by a jury of falsifying company records in the so-called ‘hush money’ trial in New York.

Veteran attorneys argue that District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case had weaknesses, despite 200 pieces of evidence and weeks of witness testimony.

But Trump’s lawyers failed to exploit them, confusing the jury by fighting every aspect of the charge and refusing to offer the option of a lesser charge.

Bill O’Reilly has said President Joe Biden should pardon his son Hunter and Donald Trump to heal the nation.

“President Biden should pardon Donald Trump for all crimes and publicly introduce that governor [Kathy] Hochul is doing the same thing,” O’Reilly told Chris Cuomo.

“And then…President Biden should pardon his son Hunter. That would plunge the entire bitter system into absolute chaos.”

O’Reilly said that while Biden “could lower the level of hate… he won’t, because he doesn’t have the ‘fiber’ of Gerald Ford.”

Trump will be sentenced on July 11, just four days before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where the party will nominate Trump as president for the third time.

Here are some of the key takeaways from Thursday’s trial.