Celebrities from both sides of the political aisle responded to former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict Thursday.
A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Some of Trump’s celebrity supporters lamented that the criminal conviction of a former president was a sign of the end of the United States’s reputation.
“RIP America. 1776-2024,” Chaya Raichik wrote. Raichik rose to fame thanks to her Libs of TikTok account.
“Guilty on all counts. The country is disgraced,” Sirius XM host Megyn Kelly wrote. “Alvin Bragg should be disbarred. They will rue the day they unleashed this lawfare to corrupt a presidential election.”
“Wow,” The View host and former Trump staffer Alyssa Farrah Griffin wrote. “I hope Judge Merchan has security for the foreseeable future.”
“We know that the case was brought by a man bent on destroying another. This was not about justice – this was a mockery of justice,” Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears wrote. “And so when a verdict like this comes down, then I pray. I pray to understand what God is trying to do. So the president will appeal and we will pray that righteousness and justice will prevail.”
Still others saw this as a signal that Trump will beat President Joe Biden in the Nov. 5 election in light of his new convict status. Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines suggested this is a day voters “won’t forget.”
“The American people won’t forget the corruption and travesty that has befallen our justice system,” Gaines wrote. “Little do they know, they’ve just secured Trumps victory in November.”
“Import the Third World, become the Third World. That’s what we just saw. This won’t stop Trump. He’ll win the election if he’s not killed first,” former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson wrote. “But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world. Anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family.”
“These idiot liberals may have just gotten Trump elected,” political commentator Ann Coulter wrote.
Still, there was a third group of celebrities that celebrated the fact that Trump lost his case. Actor John Leguizamo mocked Trump for losing his ability to vote since the jury’s decision made him a convicted felon.
“Finally the tephlon don has been held accountable! No one is above the law!” Leguizamo wrote. “We are all cheering for justice and that no one is above the law!”
“We should start referring to him as 34 instead of 45,” actor George Takei wrote of Trump. “TFG = That Felon Guy.”
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“Convicted felon Donald Trump is blaming the judge, the jury and New York for being found guilty on 34 counts. He will never accept accountability for his crimes,” actress Barbra Streisand wrote. “Americans must not allow this felon anywhere near the White House again.”
While Trump is facing another 54 charges from prosecutors across the nation, this is the only criminal trial that will issue a verdict before the Nov. 5 election. Trump has not shown any signs of stopping his 2024 campaign and instead promised supporters outside of the courthouse that he is still “fighting for our country.”
