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 …