1 UNITED STATES
Trump praises Republican support over ‘scam’ verdict
Donald Trump lauded the Republican party for rallying behind him in the wake of his conviction on 34 felony charges in a hush-money case aimed at influencing the 2016 election.
A guilty verdict returned on 30 May found that Trump falsified business records linked to an affair with adult actor Stormy Daniels. The former US president appeared last Sunday in a taped interview on Fox & Friends – a friendly forum on the rightwing channel.
“People get it. It’s a scam,” he said. “And the Republican party … they’ve stuck together in this. They see it’s a weaponisation of the justice department of the FBI and that’s all coming out of Washington.”
Most senior Republicans have echoed Trump’s claim that the convictions were politically motivated. Campaign officials said they had seen a funding boost of tens of millions of dollars following the verdict.
A Reuters poll found just one in 10 Republicans were less likely to vote for Trump since the verdict. A Morning Consult poll found 15% of Republicans thought he should end his presidential campaign as a result of the conviction.
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2 UKRAINE
Bad peace risks Trump being ‘loser’, Zelenskiy says
Donald Trump risks being a “loser president” if he wins November’s election and imposes a bad peace deal on Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, saying it would mean the end of the US as a global
