'This was all done by Biden': Trump fumes over 'rigged' trial after guilty verdict

Former President Donald Trump on Friday fumed over the outcome of his criminal trial in his New York hush money case after a jury found him guilty on 34 counts and contended that the prosecution had been in league with the Biden administration.

Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records on Thursday. The case stemmed from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution in connection with a 2016 payment that his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels.

"We just went through one of many experiences where we had a conflicted judge... now I'm under a gag order... where I've had to pay thousands of dollars in penalties and fines and was threatened with jail," Trump said during remarks at Trump Tower, lamenting that he could not fully address the matter while under a gag order.

"They are in total conjunction with the White House and the DOJ, you understand," Trump said. "This was all done by Biden and his people... This is done by Washington and nobody's every seen anything like it."

"As far as the trial itself, it was very unfair. We weren't allowed to use our election expert under any circumstances. You saw what happened to some of the witnesses... they were literally crucified," he said, meaning figuratively.

"It was a rigged trial. We wanted a venue change... we wanted a judge change," he said, lamenting that he could not fully address the matter while under a gag order. "Nobody wants to write about it and I'm not allowed to talk about it... but you're allowed to talk about it."

"It should never be allowed to happen in the future," he said. "This is bigger than me, this is bigger than my presidency."

"We're living in a fascist state," Trump declared, while recalling Bragg's attempts to pressure a longtime associate to flip on him. While Trump did not directly name his associate, he appears to have been referencing former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who received a five-month prison sentence after entering into a plea deal with Bragg's office.

"We're going to be appealing this scam," he declared. "The judge was a tyrant."

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter.