What world’s media made of Trump’s guilty verdict

By Alys Davies, BBC News, London

An editorial in the French newspaper Le Monde takes the view that while American voters were owed “the truth” of what they call Trump’s criminality, the effects of his conviction remain highly uncertain.

The “real” sentencing will not come on 11 July but on the presidential election day, 5 November, it said.

US bureau chief for the Italian daily la Repubblica, Paolo Mastrolilli, takes a more strident view that the guilty verdict is a “defeat” for Trump that could “derail” his election bid, despite the continued support of his loyal fanbase.

By contrast, a comment piece in German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung decries the US political system and the lack of influence the conviction will, in its eyes, have on Trump’s standing among Republicans.

“Guilty 34 times… After such a verdict, a candidate for the most powerful job in the world should be politically finished. Instead, his party continues to bow down to Donald Trump,” writes the paper’s US correspondent Peter Burghardt.

Meanwhile Polish daily Rzeczpospolita concurs that the “American left has shot itself in the foot” with Trump’s conviction.

Pawel Lekpowski describes Trump as “a victim of the overzealous political correct moral inquisition” and says “the effect of [the guilty verdict] will be the opposite of what was intended.”