Former President Donald Trump’s campaign boasted Thursday that it has raised $6.6 million since he was indicted on federal charges tied to the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.
The 2024 Trump campaign claims it scooped $4.5 million from digital donations and $2.1 million from a big-bucks fundraising event at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort after his historic arraignment on 37 federal criminal counts.
It says the windfall reflects Republican voters rallying behind Trump in the face of what they see as persecution by liberal prosecutors.
“The American people will not stand for this corrupt attempt to interfere with the 2024 election,” the Trump campaign said in a statement.
Trump himself cheered the “really big fundraising” as he denounced special counsel Jack Smith as “deranged” and prosecutors as “MISFITS, MUTANTS, MARXISTS, & COMMUNISTS!”
There is no way to independently confirm the numbers. Presidential campaigns need to only submit documentation to the Federal Election Commission on a quarterly basis, which make the forms public.
Trump claimed a similar surge in financial support after he was indicted and later arraigned in April in a Manhattan state court on charges related to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Donations to Trump’s campaign reportedly sagged after right-wing outrage over the Manhattan case died down, making the gusher of donations in the past week all the more notable.
There’s no denying that Trump has consolidated his dominant position in the Republican presidential primary race as his legal woes have deepened.
He has the backing of more than 50% of the GOP electorate in most polls and has forged an even larger lead as his strongest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, has stumbled.
Most political pundits believe Trump also benefits from the ever-growing Republican primary field, with the opponents dividing up the votes of those who are skeptical about Trump or his chances of beating President Joe Biden in a general election.
