Alvin Bragg: “I have investigated Trump and his children and held them accountable for their misconduct with the Trump Foundation.”

The simple truth that it is a crime to profit off the backs of donors by making false pretenses. And so we are here to say today in one voice that in Manhattan and in New York, you will be held accountable for defrauding donors.

But most importantly, today, we have the most important voice of all. And that's the voice of the jurors, they have spoken. Donald J. Trump has been convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Thank you.

I`ve spent a career following the facts wherever they go. At the attorney general`s office, I led the team that held Trump and his children accountable for the misconduct with the Trump Foundation.

I think that the better part of that argument is that we can`t have a system where anyone is above the law, all right? That is a bedrock principle of our entire judicial system, one standard of justice for all.