To ask the contrarian question, is it really that big a deal that he's been found guilty? They are all civil issues and in my understanding it's mostly a matter of shuffling around money in the wrong way to cover up a mistake he made in his personal life. Don't get me wrong, I consider him the absolute scum of the earth, but if it was a candidate I already supported I think I'd consider this type of thing to be unfortunate, but possibly not a deal breaker.
It was state criminal trials with a Single count having potential overlap into federal issues because of a peculiarity of the new York state legal code. From what i read.
To ask the contrarian question, is it really that big a deal that he's been found guilty? They are all civil issues and in my understanding it's mostly a matter of shuffling around money in the wrong way to cover up a mistake he made in his personal life. Don't get me wrong, I consider him the absolute scum of the earth, but if it was a candidate I already supported I think I'd consider this type of thing to be unfortunate, but possibly not a deal breaker.