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Trump campaign raises $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict
Former US President Donald Trump throws a fist outside Trump Tower following the verdict in his criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records to hide money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016 in the city of New York, on May 30, 2024.
Eduardo Muñoz | Reuters
The Trump campaign said Friday that it has nearly doubled its daily allowance fundraising record after a New York jury concluded donald trump guilty in your hush money criminal trial.
The Republican’s campaign said it raised $34.8 million from small donors in less than seven hours after the historic verdict Thursday afternoon that convicted the former president of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Nearly 30% of those donors were new to Trump’s donation site WinRed, campaign consultants Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a press release.
The counselors echoed Trump’s post-trial promise that the “real verdict” will come on election day, November 5th, when he will face the president Joe Biden in a rematch of the 2020 contest.
Trump will be formally nominated as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate days after his criminal sentencing scheduled for July 11 in Manhattan Supreme Court.
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He is the first former president of the USA and first supposed candidate of a major partyto be convicted of a crime.
The Trump campaign told NBC News that its latest fundraising number only includes donations sent between Thursday’s verdict, which occurred shortly after 5 p.m. ET, and midnight on Friday. fair.
The huge windfall comes less than two weeks after Trump reported a surge monthly fundraising than Democrat Biden for the first time in 2024.