What world made of Trump guilty verdict
Much of the world's media have been reflecting on what this means for Mr Trump's aspiration to return to the White House.
2024-05-31 18:43:59 - VI News Staff
The first conviction of a sitting or former US president has made headlines across the globe.
Much of the world's media have been reflecting on what this means for Mr Trump's aspiration to return to the White House.
He was convicted 34 times of falsifying business records to disguise payments to an adult film star to buy her silence just before the 2016 election. He denied the charges and the affair.
So how is this history-making conviction being covered, from Buenos Aires to Beijing?
We asked our colleagues at BBC Monitoring, which tracks and analyses media around the world.
Russia: 'Justice New York way'
By Sandro Vetsko, BBC Monitoring Russia specialist
In Russia, the largely Kremlin-controlled media have reported Trump's conviction with a bias in his favour - which is par for the course given they supported Trump in his first run for president and are critical of Joe Biden.
"Justice New York way," was how a presenter on the popular state channel NTV put it, with a correspondent then appearing to suggest the jury may not have considered their decisions thoroughly, saying they deliberated "for just 11 hours".
The Kremlin has portrayed the trial as part of the battle for the White House between President Joe Biden and Trump. "They are effectively simply removing political rivals using all possible legal and illegal means. That much is clear," spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.