Former US President, Donald J. Trump was yesterday convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records in order to boost his electoral chances in the 2016 presidential elections in the US.
It was alleged that the former president paid his lawyer “fixer” the sum of $130,000 US Dollars as reimbursement for the payment he made to a porn actress, Stormy Daniels, to keep her mouth shut about an alleged sexual liaison with the former president in order not to hurt Trump’s electoral chances. The payment was then disguised as “legal payments” to hide the offence.
While the conviction of the former president may impact the forthcoming (November) elections in the US one way or the other, it may also help to boost the image of the US as a society where no one is above the law.