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Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that following his guilty verdict in the Manhattan hush-money trial, he is “the political prisoner of a failing nation.” Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social on Friday evening to comment on his conviction after he was found guilty of 34 charges of falsifying business records. The presumptive Republican nominee also held a press conference on Friday afternoon to discuss the verdict in the trial that Trump has slammed as a political “witch hunt” and “election interference.” “I AM THE POLITICAL PRISONER OF A FAILING NATION, BUT I WILL SOON BE FREE, NOVEMBER 5TH, AND MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote, referring to Election Day, which he has said will be when Americans hand down the “real verdict.” Minutes before that post, Trump said, “These are Dark Days in America.” “After sitting for five weeks through that Rigged Trial in Lower Manhattan, which was surrounded by vast but unnecessary numbers of New York’s Finest in order to keep law abiding MAGA patriots away, and as I watched insignificant numbers of fully funded Radical Left troublemakers, with brand new and gleaming professionally made signs, screaming and cursing from areas said to be closed to us, and all others, I realized that Reason, Truth, and Love of our Country is no longer a force of Good and Change. These are Dark Days in America!” Trump wrote. The former president has argued that his political rival, President Joe Biden, has targeted him in multiple criminal trials to keep him off the campaign trail. Despite his four criminal trials — and now, one conviction — Trump remains ahead of Biden in most polls, according to the RealClearPolitics average. The Biden campaign celebrated Trump’s guilty verdict on Thursday, but added that the president can only defeat the Republican presidential candidate at the ballot box in November. “In New York today, we saw that no one is above the law,” a statement from Biden Campaign Communications Director Michael Tyler said. “Donald Trump has always mistakenly believed he would never face consequences for breaking the law for his own personal gain. But today’s verdict does not change the fact that the American people face a simple reality. There is still only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: at the ballot box. Convicted felon or not, Trump will be the Republican nominee for president.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP Shortly after his conviction, Trump raised a staggering $52.8 million, which included a large amount of new donors, according to his campaign. “In the 24 hours since Crooked Joe Biden and his New York henchmen got their sham trial verdict, the Trump Campaign has raised $52.8 million through the online digital fundraising platform,” the Trump campaign said in a statement. “THAT’S MORE THAN $2 MILLION PER HOUR!” “With more than one third of these donors being new to the campaign, it is clear that more and more Americans are seeing through the Biden election interference and joining President Trump in the movement to save our nation,” the statement added.

The Department of Justice announced on Friday that 75-year-old Paula Paulette Harlow was sentenced to two years in prison for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act by taking part in a “conspiracy” to block pregnant women from entering an abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. Harlow of Kingston, Massachusetts, was the final defendant to be sentenced in the DOJ’s prosecution of nine other “co-conspirators,” most of whom also received sentences of at least two years. Harlow’s sentencing also comes months after The Daily Wire reported that six pro-life demonstrators were found guilty and face up to 10.5 years in prison after the Biden administration charged them over a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion facility in 2021. “According to the evidence, on October 22, 2020, [Lauren] Handy – along with her co-conspirators Jonathan Darnel, John Hinshaw, William Goodman, Jean Marshall, Joan Bell, Herb Geraghty, Heather Idoni, and Paula Harlow, among others – forcefully entered the clinic and set about blockading two clinic doors using their bodies, furniture, chains, and ropes. Once the blockade was established, they live-streamed their activities,” the DOJ said. “The evidence also showed that the defendants violated the FACE Act by using a physical obstruction to injure, intimidate and interfere with the clinic’s employees and a patient, because they were providing or obtaining reproductive health services.” Handy, who was also recently sued by the Biden administration for violating the FACE Act at two abortion facilities in Ohio, was sentenced on May 14 to almost five years in prison and three years of supervised release for her role in the demonstration at the D.C. abortion clinic. Seventy-six-year-old Joan Bell was sentenced to 27 months in prison and Jean Marshall, 74, was also slapped with a two-year sentence. New Yorker Jay Smith, 34, was the only defendant to plead guilty in the trial and was sentenced to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release. The D.C. abortion clinic demonstration was investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office with help from the Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, the DOJ said. President Joe Biden has come down hard on pro-life demonstrators during his first term in office while promising to defend abortion. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP The FACE Act has been used numerous times by Biden’s DOJ to go after pro-lifers. The act was signed by President Bill Clinton 30 years ago, but has recently been scrutinized by some Republicans, such as Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who have called for the FACE Act to be repealed, arguing that it is being “weaponized against normal, everyday Americans across the political spectrum.” Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.