Trump campaign nets $34.8M in donations after guilty verdict
By: Kevin Breuninger (CNBC)
What an amazing chain of events has begun unfolding in less than 24 hrs. Alvin Bragg exits the courtroom and tries to shift blame onto everyone around him; the prosecution team, the jury, the court itself. Bragg certainly wasn't taking a victory lap which is most unusual behavior in New York. Trump has been given a bully pulpit and he is using it in the best tradition of Theodore Roosevelt (another transformative President). Joe Biden cannot buy time in the news cycle and must resort to trying to provoke Vladimir Putin. And Democrats can only repeat the witch's incantation of '34 guilty verdicts' in hopes of creating magic.
Democrats are unifying the country -- against Democrats. Maybe Democrats could put another damned Clinton on the stage; that will bring us together.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
- The presidential campaign of Donald Trump said it raised a record $34.8 million from small-dollar donors in the hours after his criminal hush money case conviction in New York.
- Trump was found guilty by a Manhattan Supreme Court jury of falsifying business records related to his scheme with Michael Cohen to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
- The Republican is set to face President Joe Biden in November's election, in a rematch of their 2020 contest for the White House.
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 on May 30, 2024.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 in less than seven hours following the historic verdict Thursday afternoon that convicted the former president 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 advisors echoed Trump's post-trial vow that the "real verdict" will come on Election Day, Nov. 5, when he is set to face President Joe Biden in a rematch of their 2020 contest.
Trump is set to be formally nominated as the Republican Party's presidential candidate days after his scheduled July 11 criminal sentencing in Manhattan Supreme Court.
He is the first former U.S. president, and first presumptive major-party nominee, ever to be convicted of a crime.
The Trump campaign told NBC News that its latest fundraising figure only includes donations sent between Thursday's verdict, which came just after 5 p.m. ET, and midnight Friday.
The massive windfall comes less than two weeks after Trump reported a higher monthly fundraising haul than the Democrat Biden for the first time in 2024.
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You'd think that, at some point, Democrats would begin to get a clue that Democrats' biggest problem ain't Trump. But rational introspection cannot overcome the delusional denial required to be woke.
Electing a convicted felon to the highest office in the country would be a YUGE accomplishment for criminal justice reform. So, if you're really woke then you have to vote for Trump. Otherwise you'll be living a woke lie. Just remember Alvin Braggs woke prosecutorial approach to criminal justice reform; criminals are not bad people, they're only victims of circumstance.
Personal and political persecution simply bounces off of Trump and makes him stronger. Libs never learn.
Americans sense of fair play has been violated.
a Democratic prosecutor in a heavily Democratic city prosecuting the republican nominee using an obscure theory that no one has ever been prosecuted under is a transparent breach of norms.
In my humble opinion, being a non-American, a huge statue of P. T. Barnum should be erected in front of the Capitol Building in Washington with the words emblazoned on the base in neon lights "There is a sucker born every minute" whether or not he actually said it but it has been attributed to him, as a fitting tribute to "The American Citizen".
That was actually popularized by W. C. Fields in his movie 'Never Give a Sucker an Even Break' or was it 'You Can't Cheat an Honest Man'. Surprising that a movie aficionado doesn't know that bit of trivia. Never see any W. C. Fields films in syndication; maybe he wasn't woke.
Look closely at what is happening in the US. American history really is repeating itself. We're reliving the 'We're in the Money' phase of the twenties and headed toward the 'Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime' thirties. Joe Biden is doing more than a nostalgia tour; he's forcing the country to relive its past. At least this time there won't be an Al Jolson in blackface.
Maybe with a bit of the German version of the Great Depression with run-a-way inflation tossed into the mix.
Except the US economy is leading the world post-Covid.
Inflation has abated and unemployment is non-existent.
We're not in recession. Corporations have record profits.
Do try and sell that to working people who no longer eat steak.
No, tell it to Germans who experienced The Great Depression and World War Two and it's aftermath and then you get back to us!
Any W.C.Fields movie I may have seen would have been so long ago I really don't remember, but the expression "Never give a sucker an even break" certainly does ring a bell, and in my mind's eye I can see W.C.Field's image - top hat and rosy cheeks.
However, I don't appreciate being criticized for NOT knowing that someone else in the movies might have mentioned the expression, when the most common understanding of its origin has always been attributed (and I used the word attributed ) to P. T. Barnum.
No, it's more like the oil crunch of the 70s. Remember the end of Bretton Woods and the rise of the petrodollar? That was the recipe for stagflation. But today's inflation can't be fixed with cheap oil like Reagan fixed stagflation.
Notice that Biden has never mentioned reinstating Glass Steagall? Biden doesn't even mention the shoddy Volcker's Rule (?) we were told was a replacement. So, Biden is certainly not the second-coming of FDR. Just about all the low hanging fruit on the neoliberal tree has been picked so Biden is having a difficult time buying his way to reelection.
They deserved everything that happened to them for worshiping the Fuhrer.
Same goes for the Palestinians for aiding and abetting Hamas.
Yet, I am not the one who is falsely comparing depression era pre-war Germany with the United States of America today...
You need to learn the history of the Great Depression.
Neither am I. You best reread what Nerm and I were talking about.
Nope, I know all about it. Runaway unemployment it was.
The stock market crashed, banks closed, farmers failed...
You are not fooling anyone with false false equivalency!
Our economy today is nothing like The Great Depression.
It is not my education which needs brushing up on today!
Don't look now.
Brandon is running out of oil reserves to drain to keep gas prices artificially low.
Brandon can't mortgage the US taxpayer this time to save his ass.
You are actively hoping that bad economic problems happen to America and to Americans because it would help Trump!
It's True! It's True!