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The verdict against Donald Trump is a win for America’s sense of integrity and justice.

Yet, these crimes were in accord with Donald Trump’s lifelong history of cheating, grifting and lying. He has been found liable for sexual abuse. He paid $25 million for duping thousands of people out of millions with his phony Trump University, and $2 million for misusing funds from his own charity.

In an unprecedented conflict of interest, Trump made $160 million from foreign countries while he was president.

But his greatest crime is that he’s a traitor to the American people. He took Vladimir Putin’s side against our own intelligence agencies that found Russia had interfered with the 2016 election. On January 6, he incited a crowd of zealots to stop the certification of a presidential election.

As FDR said of the attack on Pearl Harbor, our January 6 is “a date which will live in infamy.”

I hope Trump supporters will now consider their duty to their country.

June S. Neal, Delray Beach

It’s not over yet

This is a sad day in American history.

Former (and future) President Trump is absolutely right: this entire case was rigged.

All the cards were stacked against him; the judge and jury were anti-Trump. There was no way Trump could have won in such a politicized courtroom. This alleged hush money case was nothing but a political exercise to take down Joe Biden’s political opponent, who’s ahead in the polls.

Trump-haters are no doubt in ecstasy over the guilty verdict on all 34 felony counts and are gloating over the fact that Trump is now a convicted felon. But it’s not over yet. Trump’s conviction will undoubtedly be appealed. And in the final analysis, not only will Trump’s charges be reversed on appeal, he will be re-elected in November.

JoAnn Lee Frank, Clearwater

A felon-free White House

The headlines in print and on TV screamed “Trump convicted on all 34 counts by a jury of his peers.”

I can accept the first part, but I have trouble with the last part.

That is, unless the jurors were people who had been found liable for sexual abuse; told the world they could grab women by their private parts; told followers to “fight like hell” to overturn a legitimate election; had been documented to have lied more than 20,000 times in four years as president; spread the lie that Joe Biden stole the election; and paid off a porn star to keep her quiet about their dalliance while his wife was home with their baby son.

As expected, Trump blames everyone but himself, because he has always been able to buy himself out of responsibility for his actions.

Please vote blue in November to keep a convicted felon out of our White House — a felon who has promised to get even with those who oppose him.

Ray Belongie, Sunrise

Weaponizing justice

First they came for the Jews. Then they came for the gays. Now they’re coming for former President Trump.

Next, our weaponized and politically motivated judicial system may be coming for you.

Be careful what you wish for.

Lana Lysen, Pompano Beach

Twelve ordinary people

For weeks, 12 ordinary citizens of all political persuasions listened to evidence almost exclusively from people who are or were supporters of Donald Trump. They (presumably) did not listen to CNN, MSNBC or Fox News for any evidence.

Unfortunately, they never heard Trump, due to him exercising his right not to testify, despite proclaiming his desire to do so since the trial began. In less than 10 hours, these ordinary people found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts.

Anyone who believes this was a trial about his guilt or innocence in paying money to a porn star to prevent her from telling people what happened is simply wrong. Trump was well within his rights to “kill” the story. The crime was his doing so to influence the 2016 election.

No one can say with absolute certainty that had the story been publicized before the election, Trump still wouldn’t have been elected. But it’s hard to imagine all the self-described righteous voters armed with that knowledge continuing to support him. Instead, he won an extraordinarily close election.

His opponent graciously accepted defeat while his predecessor did everything in his power to help Trump transition to the office. These are the facts, whether one chooses to accept them or not. Thank God for our jury system and for the 12 ordinary people who heard and understood the truth.

Lawrence M. Kopelman, Esq., Plantation

A sad day for America

We have just witnessed the single greatest travesty in American history.

This case was a complete joke from beginning to end, and every legal expert was baffled by every aspect of it. This was straight out of the old Soviet Union.

This is a sad, sad day for our country.

Thomas Rubino, Coconut Creek

Still not convinced?

Even before this unprecedented conviction of Donald J. Trump on all 34 felony counts, he was unfit to be president, based on the words all of his Republican primary opponents, including Nikki Haley.

Trump was consistently accused of being a danger to our democracy, yet even she came home to Republicans and drank more of the Kool-Aid, settling up once again side by side with this criminal. Senators Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Tim Scott are just a few more of the recognized names that made a 360-degree turn-around in support of the one they had totally disparaged, not over his policies, but his danger to democracy.

Now, Trump is a convicted felon. Isn’t that enough to convince you?

Linda Gefen, Boca Raton

Political persecution

In Democrat run-New York, in a trial presided over by a Democratic judge and a Democratic district attorney, whose prime witnesses were a porn star and a criminal liar, 12 Democrats found a political opponent guilty. If that is not the very definition of third-world political persecution, then what is?

Democrats know that their two losers cannot defeat Trump at the ballot box, so their only recourse was to weaponize the judicial system.

Gene Simmons, Fort Lauderdale

He’s a convicted felon

May 30, 2024 is a day to remember as the day the criminal justice system prevailed and proved that nobody is above the law: Donald Trump, convicted on all 34 counts.

I know that all Republican naysayers will try to spin the trial to the detriment of what actually transpired, but here are the facts for the uninformed.

The prosecutor determined that a crime was committed. A grand jury heard all the evidence and testimony presented and decided there was enough available to bring the case to trial. A trial jury was chosen from impartial, ordinary citizens, who determined that everything presented confirmed that Trump was guilty.

There was nothing political about the process at all. An impartial jury convicted Trump, not the Biden administration or Department of Justice. But we all know what Republicans will say — that the process was rigged or weaponized.

In any case, this is certain: Trump is a convicted felon. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I would never vote for a felon to be our president.

Steve Peters, Boynton Beach

A sham conviction

This was a sad day in our nation’s history.

The trial was rigged from the start, in a desperate attempt to keep Donald Trump off the campaign trail and out of the White House. The American people see right through the sham conviction, and I am confident this election will be decided in the voting booth — not in a courtroom.

Paul Bacon, Hallandale Beach

Flawed character

To be president of the United States, character counts.

It has been found through the judicial system that Donald Trump has committed business fraud and has been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation. He also has lied publicly thousands of times.

Numerous high-ranking officials who served in the Trump administration have condemned his actions as president.

This makes it clear: He does not have the proper character to once again be president.

Carl Schneider, Delray Beach

Just the beginning

The verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money trial was not the end of the story. As his adversaries will soon learn, it was just the beginning.

Roberta Chaleff, Tamarac