Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro warned of severe backlash and unpredictable consequences after former president Donald Trump was convicted of numerous felonies in New York on Thursday.
A jury voted Thursday to convict Trump on 34 felony counts based on an unspecified underlying crime over hush-money payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels in 2016. The jury decision marks the first time a president or former president has been convicted of a crime in American history.
“It’s a travesty of justice. This case was a joke from the very beginning,” Shapiro said in a late Thursday afternoon live stream after the verdict. “Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg set this entire thing up to become more famous and more powerful. Judge Juan Merchan, who basically gave every benefit to the prosecution, whose jury instructions were unprecedented in their willingness to flout the…
