Trump Posts Video Fol­low­ing Ver­dict: ‘This Is The Final Bat­tle’

For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump post­ed a video to social media Thurs­day evening fol­low­ing his con­vic­tion in the con­tro­ver­sial Man­hat­tan Dis­trict Attorney’s Office crim­i­nal case against him over an alleged hush-mon­ey pay­ment that he made dur­ing the 2016 elec­tion.
The deci­sion is the cul­mi­na­tion of a weeks-long court­room bat­tle in which Trump said that he was the tar­get of a “polit­i­cal per­se­cu­tion” — a point that was seem­ing­ly val­i­dat­ed when Pres­i­dent Joe Biden sent his cam­paign to hold a polit­i­cal event out­side the cour­t­house this week as he runs anoth­er cam­paign for a sec­ond term in the White House. The for­mer …