Former President Donald Trump is facing prison after a New York Jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.

The verdict, which came in on Thursday following weeks of trials and nearly 12 hours of deliberations, means Trump is the first former president to be convicted of a crime. 

The former president reacted to the verdict in a statement where he described the trial as rigged and “a disgrace.”

“It’s a rigged trial, a disgrace. They wouldn’t give us a venue change. We were at 5% or 6% in this district, in this area. This was a rigged, disgraceful trial,” the former president said. “The real verdict is going to be November 5th, by the people, and they know what happened here, and everybody knows what happened here. You have a Soros-backed DA, and the whole thing, we didn’t do a thing wrong. I’m a very innocent man and it’s okay, I am fighting for our country, I am fighting for our constitution.”

Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2024 presidential election, added that the indictment was brought against him because he is leading in the polls. 

“Our whole country is being rigged right now. This was done by the Biden Administration in order to wound or hurt an opponent, a political opponent, and I think it is just a disgrace, and we’ll keep fighting, we will fight to the end and we will win because our country has gone to hell,” Trump added. “We don’t have the same country anymore, we have a divided mess. We are a nation in decline, serious decline. Millions and millions of people pouring into our country right now from prisons and from mental institutions, terrorists and they are taking over our country. We have a country that is in big trouble. This was a rigged decision right from day one with a conflicted judge who should have never been allowed to try this case, never.”

Trump now awaits sentencing following the Jury’s decision.