Trump live updates: Donald Trump to hold news conference after guilty verdict

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Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the centre of the Donald Trump hush money trial, has received a wave of praise following the announcement that the former president was guilty of 34 charges on Thursday.

Trump became the first president in US history to receive a criminal conviction and will now have to wait until July 11th to learn what the punishment for his crime will be.

Trump addressed his age during his post-trial press conference during a tangent about a separate case.

“He’s 77 years old. Now normally I’d say that’s an old guy, but I don’t feel 77,” he said. “Nobody ever says that about me … they just don’t say that about me, but maybe I’m better off that way.”

Trump yet again called the judge in his hush money case “highly conflicted” before going on to say he “wanted to testify.”

“I would have testified, I wanted to testify. The theory is you never testify because as soon as you testify for anybody, if it were George Washington – don’t testify because they’ll get you on something that you said slightly wrong, and then they sue you for perjury,” he said. “But I didn’t care about that, I wanted to.”

Former President Donald Trump is speaking at a press conference after his conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records.

He said those behind his conviction were “sick people.”

“We have a president and a group of fascists that don’t want to do anything about it,” he added. “He could stop it. But he’s not, they’re destroying our country.”

Rather less happy with the news, and once more attempting to re-establish a degree of relevance in America he has not enjoyed for some years, the British conservative broadcaster has also contributed his two cents.

Jacob Stolworthy has this one.

The Trump press conference is taking place where Trump launched his 2016 campaign when he descended his golden escalators in June 2015, and a couple of months later conspired to unlawfully influence the outcome.

He’s now going to proclaim his innocence from the same atrium where he announced he was running.

The great genius of our time speaks.