Victoria Young, a Bow resident and owner of a paving company, said the conviction of Donald Trump on 34 counts of election law violations has only increased her support for the former president.

“It’s a rotten shame,” said Young, 69, prior to grabbing breakfast with her granddaughter at the The Post in downtown Concord. “I think just the way he’s being treated, talked about, bullied, it’s just not right. No respect.”

Young, a Republican, predicted a resounding victory for Trump in November and believes that if the trial had happened in New Hampshire instead of Manhattan, he would not have been convicted.

On a bluebird Friday morning on Concord’s Main Street, reactions to the first criminal conviction of a U.S. president in history included anger, validation and apathy.

Ginny Gwynn and Jon Bellis, a retired couple from Sunapee in town for an appointment, celebrated Trump’s conviction.

“I thought it was terrific,” said Gwynn, a Democrat.

But, Gwynn acknowledged, “it’s really a sad situation” that a former president and presumptive major party nominee is now a felon.

Both Gwynn and Bellis, an undeclared voter, plan to vote for Biden in November.

Other reactions, however, were more mixed, revealing a degree of embarrassment at the state of the country’s electoral politics, and dissatisfaction with both Trump and President Joe Biden.

“I honestly think there’s people in other countries thinking, what the heck is wrong” with the U.S., said Mari Hoell, 50, a resident of Wells, Maine, who works in Concord.

Hoell, an independent, said that Trump’s conviction did not affect her pre-established refusal to vote for Trump in November, but she doesn’t like Biden either.

“I don’t like Trump because of the way he is with people, but my concern is the current president might not make it with his mental capacity,” said Hoell, who plans to do more research and will consider third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy has already received the full-blown support of Brandon Willette, a 35-year-old from Manchester who works at Dos Amigos in Concord. Willette, for whom opposition to the war in Gaza is a major issue, described Trump’s six-week trial as a “big waste of taxpayer money.”

In contrast, Luke Wester, 20, a Virginia native in town with his father to visit family, said Trump’s conviction did have some effect on his thinking as he approaches the first presidential election in which he can participate.

“Just the fact that no one held out – that everyone convicted him – just suggests the evidence is pretty blatant,” said Wester, who just finished his sophomore year at the College of William & Mary.

Wester, who described his politics as “more liberally leaning,” said he will probably vote for Biden in the fall.

Chris Gallier, a Trump supporter and another young voter, said the trial did not change his support for the former president, but acknowledged it “puts him in a tough situation.”

“It is a little bit of a tough look, but I’m also thinking about the judge he got,” said Gallier, 24, a Bow resident who works in tech sales. “Was it fair?”

Bucking some views that the conviction would galvanize Trump’s base, Gallier said he thinks “it might hurt him a bit.”

“But I think people will get over it,” Gallier predicted.