'His legacy is just beyond trash': New Yorkers pile on Trump after crushing conviction

New York City denizens are reveling in Donald Trump's conviction on 34 felony counts in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, expressing sentiments from good riddance to glee at his downfall in interviews with the New York Times.

Trump, once a titan in New York City real estate circles, could be headed to prison with Judge Juan Merchan setting a sentencing date for July 11, and one New Yorker claiming he and many others "would like to push him out of the headlines.”

According to the Times report from Maggie Haberman and Jesse McKinley, "... the city that helped make him rich and famous has become his battleground. And Mr. Trump keeps losing. His conviction this week was the third and heaviest blow the former president has been dealt in his erstwhile hometown this year — a series of challenges to his ego, his bottom line, and now, perhaps, his freedom."

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Case in point, Robert Clark, 63, of Williamsburg, stated, "I woke up with a smile on my face,” the morning after the jury delivered their verdict.

Retiree Mark Samuels, 70, added, "His legacy is just beyond trash. We’re in one of the most important cities on earth and he came and he fell. It’s his rise and fall.”

The report adds, "Lennox Hannan, 63, a writer who lives in Williamsburg, said he was 'overjoyed' and compared Mr. Trump to a mafia boss, Richard Nixon and even more unsavory characters. He also said the verdict also swelled his pride as a New Yorker, saying 'the beginning of his downfall' had happened in the city."

“It’s fitting the first justice he’s faced has been in New York City,” Hannan added. “It all comes back to New York City.”

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