Read previewFormer President Donald Trump, now a convicted felon, fumed over the verdict in his historic New York hush-money trial on Thursday, insisting that he's "a very innocent man."
I'm a very innocent man," said Trump, who added that the "real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people."
Trump will appeal the verdict, Susan Necheles, a lawyer for the former president told Business Insider.
AdvertisementNearly every day of the five-week trial, Trump publicly criticized the Manhattan district attorney office's case against him as well as Merchan, the presiding judge.
Moments after jurors started weighing a verdict, Trump told reporters in the courtroom hallway that the case against him was so "rigged" that not even "Mother Teresa" could get acquitted.
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