Trump criminal conviction makes historybr br Donald Trump on May 30, 2024 became the first former US president ever convicted of felony crimes after a New York jury found him guilty on all charges in his hush money case, months before an election that could see him yet return to the White House. Trump sat stone-faced while the verdict was read as cheering from the street below could be heard in the hallway on the courthouse's 15th floor where the decision was revealed after more than nine hours of deliberations. But a defian Trump said that the "real verdict" would be on November 5 "by the people.