Alvin Bragg: “New York has an important interest in rooting out fraud in our markets, our corporations, and our charities, and we will…”

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.

These are felony crimes in New York state. No matter who you are, we cannot and will not normalize serious criminal conduct.

Certainly. And I actually haven’t heard any credible argument to the contrary 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.