Convicted former United States of America President, Donald Trump has said that he’s just a political prisoner in a failing nation governed by President Joe Biden.

This, as President Joe Biden said that it’s irresponsible for anyone to criticize the New York court verdict that found Donald Trump guilty in all 34 count charges of falsifying business records in the hush money case against him.

The two top citizens of America exchanged words in different press conferences held on Friday to react to the Thursday court verdict against the former president.

In what looked a like a rambling remarks earlier on Friday at the Trump Tower lobby in Manhattan, Trump repeated his complaints that the trial was an attempt to hobble his White House comeback bid and said it showed that no American was safe from politically motivated prosecution.

“If they can do this to me, they can do this to anyone,” Trump said in an unscripted 33-minute speech as reported by Reuters and other news agencies.

Close watchers said that the Thursday’s guilty verdict handed over by Manhattan court against the former president catapults the United States into unexplored territory ahead of the November 5 election in which Trump, 77, will try to win back the White House from Biden, 81.

On Friday, Biden was asked by a reporter if he was worried that he could find himself in the same situation some day. The 81 years old America president said: “Not at all. I didn’t do anything wrong. The system still works,” he said. Adding that he had “no idea” whether the conviction would help Trump in the 2024 election, when the two face a rematch.

It would be recalled that a Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his hush money criminal trial, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes him the first former president in US history to be convicted of a felony.

The Judge, Justice Juan Merchan set a sentencing hearing for July 11. According to legal experts,  Trump’s sentence is up to the judge, and it could include prison time or probation.

Prosecutors had accused Donald Trump of taking part in an illegal conspiracy to undermine the integrity of the 2016 presidential election and an unlawful plan to suppress negative information, which included concealing a hush money payment to an adult film star.

A felony conviction of a former president or party frontrunner is unprecedented, but Trump, who is the 2024 presumptive GOP nominee, can still run for office.

Trump called the jury’s decision a “disgrace” and said the “real verdict” will come during the presidential election on November 5. President Joe Biden said on social media that his 2024 rival can only be defeated at the ballot box, according to CNN report.

CNN also reported that shortly after Trump was convicted, his attorney Todd Blanche asked Merchan for an acquittal of the charges notwithstanding the guilty verdict. The judge rejected the pro forma request.

“Nothing in the US Constitution bars a convicted criminal from running for the nation’s highest office, University of California, Los Angeles law professor Richard L Hasen has consistently said.

“The Constitution contains only limited qualifications for running for office (being at least 35 years old, a natural born citizen, and at least 14 years a resident of the U.S.),” Hasen continued”, CNN report reads partly in quote.

Former United States President Donald Trump during the press conference said that he is a political prisoner in a struggling nation, but remains optimistic that his freedom will soon be restored.

According to Trump, he will be released and work towards making America great again come November 5th, 2024.

Trump said that he was convicted in a rigged political witch hunt trial.

Trump said: “I Did Nothing Wrong, I am the political prisoner of a failing nation, but I will soon be free, November 5th, and make America great again.

“They’ve raided my home, arrested me, took my mugshot, and now they have just convicted me.

“Crooked Joe Biden needs to get the message – right here, right now – that his chances of a 2nd term end today.

“But for that to happen, our immediate pushback must be so massive, that it will go down in history. We must make Joe Biden regret ever coming after us.”

President Joe Biden said on Friday that it was dangerous for people to question the integrity of the guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money jury trial.

The President in his first public comments since the New York jury on Thursday found Trump guilty on 34 counts over a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election, Biden, a Democrat, struck out hard at Trump and other Republicans who have criticized the verdict.

“Donald Trump was given every opportunity to defend himself.” Biden said in remarks at the White House. He noted that the case against Trump in New York was brought by the state, that it was not a federal case, and that the verdict was delivered by “a jury of 12 citizens, 12 Americans, 12 people like you.”

The US justice system has endured for nearly 250 years, Biden said, and he criticized Trump and his supporters for attempting to tear it down with false allegations.

“It’s reckless, it’s dangerous, it’s irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don’t like the verdict,” Biden said.