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Former Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Friday defiantly defended former President Donald Trump after he was found guilty of 34 felony counts earlier this week.

Writing on Twitter, Conway used one of her tried-and-tested spin tactics that she regularly employed while at the White House: Namely, she pivoted to attacking Trump's political opponents.

Donald Trump took a brutal beating online Friday as he went on a meandering speech the morning after his felony conviction.

Trump spoke for more than 30 minutes, rambling about many of the same things he's said at his campaign rallies. Attacking immigrants, Trump spoke about the Chinese before quickly pivoting to other issues – including many references to the unfairness of his trial.

Speaking for over 30 minutes live on national television in his first official speech after a jury convicted him on 34 felony counts, Donald Trump late Friday morning spewed numerous lies attempting to spin the details of his five-week trial, including the false claim he could go to prison for "187 years," while vowing to appeal.

Echoing his infamous speech announcing his first run for president in 2015, and even using the phrase, "not good people," Trump began Friday's remarks by claiming "millions and millions of people are flowing in from all parts of the world, not just South America, from Africa, from Asia from the Middle East. And they're coming in from jails and prisons. And they're coming in from mental institutions and insane asylums. They're coming in from all over the world into our country. And we have a president and a group of fascists that don't want to do anything about it."

Donald Trump's wife and youngest son were apparently hiding out at Trump Tower as his guilty verdicts on 34 counts were read in court.

Neither Melania nor Barron Trump appeared in court for the former president's trial, but sources told Page Six the pair "were smuggled in through the side entrance" at the Manhattan high-rise at some point Thursday and remained there as the jury delivered its verdict.

As supporters of Donald Trump flood right-wing platforms with threats against the jurors and judge following guilty verdicts Thursday in his criminal case regarding hush money payments, fears are growing that the influence the Republican presumptive presidential nominee has over his supporters will soon lead to violence.

"Until and unless he accepts the process, the extremist reaction to his legal troubles will be militant," Jacob Ware, a research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, toldReuters.

The entire CNN panel covering Donald Trump's Friday speech at Trump Tower Friday expressed surprise he fled from the press without taking questions, with host Kasie Hunt suggesting the former president is having trouble dealing with his life as a convicted felon.

With the speech already labeled as "very disjointed" by host Erin Burnett, CNN Political Director David Chalian expressed dismay that he ducked out on what was supposed to be a press availability — and derisively labeled the event, "A venting session for a convicted felon."

That led Bloomberg columnist Nia-Malika Henderson to note Trump's attack on President Joe Biden's age, and point out Trump can't "really speak or put two sentences together."

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"It was, I think, surprisingly incoherent; surprisingly all over the place. He wants to make this argument about age against Biden, but here he was looking, you know, kind of like an old man who was just ranting and raving in a self-involved way," she elaborated.

She then added, "This wasn't a great outing for him. I think it was probably smart of him not to answer questions given where he has been so far in this speech. And if you look at the times he has answered questions, he gets himself in trouble on any number of issues."

Russian state television personalities this week were reportedly crestfallen by news of former President Donald Trump's criminal conviction on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records to cover up hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

The Daily Beast's Julia Davis reports that television personalities in Russia were despondent to see their preferred candidate dealt a guilty verdict, even as they hoped he could still go on to win the 2024 presidential election.

A member of Donald Trump's legal brain trust was put on the spot on Friday morning over the former president's devastating 34-felony count conviction less than 24 hours after he indicated he thought the hush money trial went well and even praised the jurors.

Appearing with host Erica Hill, Will Scharf — who is also running to become Missouri's Attorney General — made the case that he feels there is a good case to appeal the conviction that has branded Trump as a felon.

That led Hill to remind him, via sharing an interview clip from Thursday, where he expressed confidence that Trump would be exonerated.

"Less than 24 hours ago you were complimenting this jury," she reminded him.

A group of college Republicans who suggested the criminal justice system should be respected were swiftly slapped down by MAGA politicians and pundits who rushed to pledge allegiance to former President Donald Trump, a newly convicted felon.

College Republicans delivered on X Thursday a tempered response to the New York City jury that found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

National security attorney Bradley Moss on Friday argued that Trump supporters' stunned reaction to the former president's guilty verdict is a direct reflection of their media consumption.

Specifically, Moss argued that right-wing media outlets have been systematically misleading their viewers in their coverage of former President Donald Trump's Manhattan hush money trial.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) wants answers from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg about the felony conviction of former President Donald Trump.

The Ohio Republican plans to demand Bragg and senior counsel Matthew Colangelo appear before the House select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government on June 13 for a hearing, according to an X announcement made Friday.

Former President Donald Trump, a newly convicted felon, said Friday that witnesses were "literally crucified" by the "devil" who looks "so nice and soft" and oversaw his criminal hush money trial.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee delivered this message from the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City where he has been found guilty of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Former President Donald Trump addressed the public in an extensive address on Friday in which he rambled aimlessly about nondisclosure agreements, his gag order, and maintained that the crimes he was convicted of never happened or weren't illegal.

He was speaking from his Fifth Avenue tower about being found guilty on all 34 counts on Thursday.