Trump campaign nets $34.8M in donations after guilty verdict
Former U.S. President Donald Trump pumps a fist outside Trump Tower after the verdict in his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in New York City, U.S. May 30, 2024.Â
Eduardo Munoz | Reuters
The Trump campaign said Friday it nearly doubled its single-day fundraising record after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty in his criminal hush money trial.
The Republican’s campaign said it raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors following the historic verdict Thursday afternoon, in which Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Nearly 30% of those donors were brand new to the Trump donation site WinRed, senior campaign advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a press release.
The top aides echoed Trump’s post-trial vow that the “real verdict” will come on Election Day, Nov. 5.
Trump is all but guaranteed to participate in that contest as the first former U.S. president, and first major-party nominee, ever to be convicted of crimes.
The Trump campaign told NBC News that its latest fundraising figure only includes donations sent between Thursday’s verdict and midnight, and that it does not include anything that came in after 12 a.m. ET Friday.
The massive windfall comes less than two weeks after Trump reported a higher monthly fundraising haul than his rival, President Joe Biden, for the first time in the 2024.
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