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Breakingviews: Trump’s rich backers normalize criminal behaviorFormer U.S. President Trump walks alongside his attorney Todd Blanche after a jury found him guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial at New York State Supreme Court in New York, New York, U.S., 30 May 2024.
Even as a New York jury considered Donald Trump’s fate, his rich backers stood behind him. Major Wall Street donors including Blackstone’s founder Stephen Schwarzman decided to firmly back the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who was convicted on Thursday of 34 criminal charges. It’s one thing to support a candidate who might cut taxes and regulation, and quite another to
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