Donald Trump is cashing in on a conviction in what will be the first trial in U.S. history of a former and current president.
The former president’s campaign announced Friday morning that it had raised $34.8 million between 6pm ET and midnight Thursday, shortly after Trump was found guilty of all 34 felony counts in his criminal trial in New York City.
In a statement, the campaign highlighted the “record-breaking small fundraising” it achieved as Trump faces President Biden in a rematch in the 2024 presidential election.
They stressed that the sales were “nearly double the daily sales recorded by the Trump campaign on the WinRed platform” and that the conviction “awakened the MAGA movement like never before.”
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Former President Donald Trump arrived at Trump Tower in New York City on Thursday after being convicted of 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records. (Felipe Ramares for Fox News Digital)
“Just minutes after the bogus court verdict was announced, our digital fundraising systems were overwhelmed with support and, despite momentary online delays due to high volume, President Trump raised $34.8 million from small donors,” Trump campaign senior advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a statement.
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They noted that “not only was the amount the highest ever, but 29.7% of yesterday’s donors were new donors to the WinRed platform.”
Pointing to the fall election, LaCivita and Wiles reiterated that “President Trump is fighting to save our country, and November 5th is the day the American people will give their real verdict.”
Trump drew applause from his supporters on Friday morning when he described the fundraising as “record-breaking.”
Former President Donald Trump spoke at Trump Tower in New York on Friday. The day after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony charges, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee spoke out about the conviction and appeared to shed new light on his campaign. (AP Photo/Julia Nickinson)
Minutes after the verdict was read in the first trial of a former and current president in U.S. history, Trump’s team made a fundraising appeal to his supporters.
“My friends, is this the end of America?” Trump asked in an email. “I have just been convicted in a rigged political witch hunt.”
“We’re just days away from our end-of-month fundraising deadline!” Trump wrote in the email, which also included a photo of the former president calling Trump a “political prisoner.”
WinRed, a Republican online fundraising platform used by the Trump campaign and others, was temporarily shut down within an hour of the ruling.
Former President Trump appeared in hush money trial in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on Thursday. (Stephen Hirsch Pool/Getty Images)
LaCivita advised donors who encountered the WinRed error message to either sign up for Trump’s text message list or log back into the site and try again.
“If you’re one of the millions of American patriots who want to donate to Donald Trump’s campaign and receive an error message from @WINRED… don’t give up! Log back in and try again! Or text TRUMP to 88022,” LaCivita tweeted.
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Trump’s campaign website also directed donors to Anedot, another fundraising platform used by various Republican campaigns.
The Trump campaign also warned lower-ranking Republican candidate campaigns not to try to use the former president’s conviction to raise money directly, in order to prevent “diversion” of donations intended for Trump’s coffers.
Meanwhile, the former president’s top pollsters released a memo on the eve of the verdict arguing that a guilty verdict would have no effect on the election.
President Biden spoke at a campaign rally at Girard College in Philadelphia on Wednesday, and he and Vice President Harris used the rally to launch a national campaign to garner support from Black voters. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Biden’s reelection campaign also issued a fundraising appeal shortly after the verdict.
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“Despite the jury’s guilty verdict against Donald Trump today, there is only one way to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office: the ballot box,” the Biden campaign wrote in a fundraising message to supporters.
“If you’ve been waiting for the perfect time to make your first donation to Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, we’re here to tell you that today is the day,” he said.
Trump has been trying to close the fundraising gap with Biden, and in April, his campaign and the Republican National Committee outraised Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee for the first time.
Trump is stepping up his fundraising efforts, The Biden campaign still held a cash advantage of $84 million to $49 million as of the end of April.
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