'I am a very innocent man': Donald Trump returns to campaign trail after 34 guilty verdicts

Trump and his campaign had been preparing for a guilty verdict for days, even as they held out hope for a hung jury

Former President Donald Trump walks out of court and toward the media following the verdict in his hush money trial, in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (Mark Peterson/New York Magazine via AP, Pool)

Donald Trump is returning to the campaign trail a day he became the first former or current US president to be convicted of a crime.

The Republican presidential hopeful will stage a news conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan hours after he was convicted of trying to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actress who claimed they had sex.