Trump has raised $1.5 million in MAGA donations since he warned he would be arrested
The likely indictment of Donald Trump in New York has triggered a flood of funds, with donors handing over $1.5 million in the three days after the former president announced he expected to be arrested.
It marks a significant increase in fundraising after a slow start after Trump announced his 2024 presidential bid in November.
The Trump campaign confirmed the figures to DailyMail.com and said the money kept coming, fueled by grassroots anger over Trump’s treatment.
He called for protests Saturday as he expected to be arrested Tuesday in connection with an investigation in New York into money paid to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels.
However, Tuesday came and went without an arrest. And on Wednesday, the grand jury that heard the evidence did not convene, delaying the possibility of an indictment.
Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign has raised more than $1.5 million in the three days since he revealed he expected to be arrested in connection with an investigation in New York.
Trump also criticized his rival Ron DeSantis (left) for being “too busy chatting up a hearing-impaired TV presenter from England” in the form of Piers Morgan (right)
Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has sent out a series of fundraising emails to capitalize on the unprecedented possibility of a former president being arrested.
“Once again we are witnessing the complete and utter collapse of America’s justice system,” an email said Monday.
“But very soon, President Trump will return to the White House to restore true justice to America.”
Some news reports have suggested that Trump would love a ‘criminal walk’ and being handcuffed in New York, images that could be used in further fundraising blasts to outrage his supporters.
But a source familiar with his thinking said that was not the case.
“There is no world where Donald Trump wants to be arrested,” the source said. “That’s different from keeping the political nature of this front and center.”
The financial numbers confirm it.
In the two weeks after Trump announced his campaign last year, he raised more than $4.1 million in donations online, according to Politico.
That works out to just under $300,000 per day, suggesting that the prosecution news is worth around $200,000 more per day.
But that’s less than the $1 million a day his Save America Joint Fundraising Committee brought in after the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago home in August of last year.
Police have been present throughout the Lower Manhattan court complex where Trump is expected to finally appear. However, the grand jury did not sit down on Wednesday.
Ground crews worked on Trump’s private plane Wednesday at West Palm Beach International Airport. The photographers keep an eye on him while they wait for him to fly to New York.
Trump brought up the ongoing legal case again on Wednesday. In a social media post, he portrayed himself as a warrior against the radical left while his rival Ron DeSantis gave interviews on British television.
“While I fight the radical left lunatics, the persecutors and the unfair prosecutors who want to destroy us all, Ron DeSanctimonious isn’t working for the people of Florida like he should be, he’s too busy chatting with a TV presenter from England’s Ratings Challenged “. , desperately trying to rescue the failed campaign from him, but it’s my fault I put him there! posted on Truth Social.
A day earlier, news broke that DeSantis had sat down for an interview with Piers Morgan, a longtime Trump confidante who became a vocal critic of the former president.
In a potential preview of the 2024 Republican primary showdown, DeSantis spoke at length about what he described as his potential presidential rival’s fundamental shortcomings.
The Florida governor told Morgan he believed he could beat President Joe Biden in an election, criticized the chaos in the Trump administration and said he did not care about the former president’s attacks.
For me, it’s just background noise. It’s not important to me to be fighting with people on social media. It’s not accomplishing anything for the people I represent,’ she said.
He also downplayed Trump’s nicknames, saying the only thing that fit was “winner” because of his election results in Florida.
“If I were to run,” he said of 2024, “I’m running against Biden.” Like us [him and Trump] they’re running for Republican, potentially, I get that, but ultimately the guy I’m going to focus on is Biden because I think he’s failed the country.
‘I think the country wants a change. I think they want a fresh start and a new direction, so we’ll be very vocal about that.’