Former President Donald Trump has reportedly received over $5 million in donations in the 48 hours since he was indicted on Thursday. According to Axios, Trump’s supporters contributed $4 million in the first 24 hours alone, with an additional $1 million the following day. The surge in funding appears to confirm Trump’s and his allies’ claims that an indictment would only endear him further to his base.
Trump campaign advisor Jason Miller said, “There’s a whole new group of Trump supporters who are angered by what they see as this political persecution.” Trump is expected to surrender himself to authorities in New York on Tuesday, with the Secret Service accompanying him as New York authorities book the president, take his fingerprints, and photograph him.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office indicted Trump for his alleged involvement in paying hush money. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung denounced the indictment as political persecution and a hoax. Meanwhile, Trump himself called DA Alvin Bragg just another participant in the years-long “witch hunt” against him.
Even some of Trump’s longtime critics expressed skepticism about the indictment, including 2016 GOP primary rival Jeb Bush. “Bragg’s predecessor didn’t take up the case. The Justice Department didn’t take up the case. Bragg first said he would not take up the case. This is very political, not a matter of justice. In this case, let the jury be the voters,” Bush tweeted on Saturday.
Trump is expected to travel from his home in Mar-a-Lago to New York City on Monday and spend his final night before the arraignment in Trump Tower. The funding surge suggests that the former president still has a significant following, even as he faces legal challenges.
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President Donald Trump שליט”א Receives Over $5 Million:- כן ירבו and likewise his votes & electoral college #’s כן ירבו
Sorry I have no sympathy for any Bush or Boche like this one, and I have no doubt that there are more than 5 millions Boches in the Usa and elsewhere. Their judgement will come in one way or another!
I find it odd that the supposed billionaire keeps fleecing his flock. Now that he’s a declared candidate the GOP is no longer paying his many legal bills. The supposed billionaire is depending on his supporters rather than using his own money or the Trump organizations money as he did with the hush money payments.
The guy who brags his entire life that he’s so rich (thanks to daddy) and said he would fund his own campaign, and didn’t, continues to swindle the morons who are dumb enough to give him their money.
So Trump receives campaign donations when he is indicted. Does this mean that the costs of his legal defense are legitimate presidential campaign expenses?
Maybe he’ll use some of this money to pay all the cities he stiffed for the security charges he owes for campaign rallys he held. Lol! Right.
Quelle surprise. A grifter is gonna grift.
The real question is whether he would get more, or less, money if he was charged with a real crime (and paying off an extortionist is not illegal, and appointing one’s attorney to act as an “attorney in fact” is lawful).
A cynic might suggest that Trump bribed the Manhattan prosecutor to charge him was a non-crime that will strike most of the country as being politically motivated, thereby improving Trump’s chances in the next election.
Boy! All of you naysayers! You don’t understand what this news means??? That people are angry at trump being framed!!! It means that they’re trying to help out w the endless legal expenses due to wrongful accusations against him!! As 147 said: כן ירבו to the $, votes, & electoral college!!