President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agree on at least one thing: it all comes down to the November election.Trump on Thursday became the first-ever former US president to become a felon when a New York jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a hush-money payment made to Stormy Daniels.
“This was a disgrace. This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge that was corrupt,” Trump told reporters outside the Manhattan courtroom, adding that the “real verdict is going to be November 5 by the people.”Biden seemed to agree that despite the guilty verdict, the only way to stop his 2024 challenger was by voting.”There’s only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: At the ballot box,” Biden said in a post on X shortly after the conviction.A statement from the Biden campaign reiterated that message, adding, “Today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality.””Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president,” the campaign said.Legal experts previously told Business Insider that even if Trump did get convicted of the hush-money felonies, the odds he would actually go to jail were slim to none.Even if Trump were to go to prison, the Constitution doesn’t necessarily stop people from running for president from behind bars.Trump’s sentencing date is scheduled for July 11, just four days before the Republican National Convention.
