Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
"He’s now a convicted felon," the New York Democrat added.
Trump vowed to appeal the verdict in remarks to the press in New York City on Friday morning.
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Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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Schumer's second statement on the Trump verdict — the first of which came on X on Thursday night — followed House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan's demand that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and prosecutor Matthew Colangelo appear next month for a hearing regarding "the unprecedented political prosecution of President Trump."
Trump was found guilty by a New York jury on Thursday on 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up payments that were made to adult film star Stormy Daniels, with whom he allegedly had an affair.
Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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