Biden campaign celebrates Trump verdict, lobbies for donations

President Joe Biden's presidential campaign immediately celebrated former President Donald Trump's Thursday conviction on 34 charges of falsifying his business records to hide an alleged hush money payment.

A Manhattan jury convicted Trump on all counts related to a hush money payment made to former porn star Stormy Daniels. He will be sentenced on July 11. Defense attorneys for Trump likely plan to appeal the verdict.

Democrats celebrated the legal victory for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in posts to social media. Biden immediately campaigned off the announcement, sharing a link to his campaign's donation page, and stating that there was only "one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office."

Biden's campaign said the verdict proved that "no one is above the law," and the White House said it "respects the rule of law," according to CNN.

"Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain. But today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality. There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box," Michael Tyler, Biden 2024 campaign communications director, wrote in a statement.

“The threat Trump poses to our democracy has never been greater," he continued. "A second Trump term means chaos, ripping away Americans’ freedoms and fomenting political violence — and the American people will reject it this November."

California Rep. Adam Schiff, who is running for the U.S. Senate, also touted the verdict in a statement, claiming the "rule of law prevailed."

"Guilty. Today, twelve ordinary American citizens found a former president guilty of dozens of felonies," Schiff posted to X. "Despite his efforts to distract, delay, and deny – justice arrived for Donald Trump all the same. And the rule of law prevailed."