Trump speaks to Fox News after his guilty conviction: ‘These are bad people’

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Former president Donald Trump speaks out about his guilty verdict in an exclusive interview with the ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ co-hosts.

Former President Trump criticized the guilty verdict he was handed in the New York criminal case against him on Sunday during an interview with "Fox & Friends Weekend." 

"It's weaponization, and it's a very dangerous thing. We've never had that in this country," he said during the exclusive interview. 

A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records on Thursday. 

"People get it. It's a scam," he said, speaking of the trial. "And the Republican Party… they've stuck together in this. They see it's a weaponization of the Justice Department of the FBI and that's all coming out of Washington."

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Former President Donald Trump spoke to Fox News Digital on Sunday after he was found guilty in New York.  (Fox News)

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The interview—which was led by co-hosts Pete Hegseth, Will Cain, and Rachel Campos-Duffy, aired in pieces throughout the show on Sunday—called on the GOP frontrunnner to weigh the political landscape following the conviction. 

One Daily Mail poll, for instance, gave Trump a six-point bump in approval in the immediate aftermath.

Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.

Authored by Hanna Panreck,Taylor Penley via FoxNews June 2nd 2024