A fundraising email from Donald Trump’s election campaign claims the former president was “tortured” when he turned himself into a Georgia prison last August.
When Trump was imprisoned in Georgia’s Fulton County Jail last August on election fraud charges, Trump’s campaign profited from his mugshot image to the tune of more than $4 million.
They spread his glowing image across campaign merchandise, including t-shirts, mugs, beer koozies and more.
Ahead of Trump’s first debate with Biden and in the wake of his convictions in Manhattan, they used it again in a campaign mailer sent Monday.
The email reads: ‘I want you to remember what they did to me. They tortured me in the Fulton County Jail and took my MUGSHOT. So guess what?’
A fundraising email from Donald Trump’s election campaign claims the former president was ‘tortured’ when he landed himself in a Georgia prison last August
The email reads: ‘I want you to remember what they did to me. They tortured me in the Fulton County Jail and took my MUGSHOT. So guess what?’ He says their response was to “put it on a mug for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE,” complete with a photo of the mug
He says their response was to “put it on a mug for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE,” complete with a photo of the mug.
The campaign is offering the item for a $47 donation to Trump’s 2024 election efforts.
A February report from WinRed, the Republicans’ online fundraising platform, confirmed that Trump raised a whopping $4.2 million the day after his mugshot was released.
Trump is still awaiting sentencing in the Manhattan business fraud case, in which he was convicted of 34 charges of falsifying documents.
He is also charged with mishandling classified documents found in his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
It has done little to slow his campaign’s momentum as he heads into the first debate with Joe Biden on Thursday.
Trump received a five-point increase in general election polls before his felony conviction in the hush-money trial, compared to afterward.
When Trump, Joe Biden and other third-party candidates were taken into account, the former president came back with a whopping 10 percent lead over the current president.
The Fulton County Jail in Georgia, where Trump turned himself in
A February report from WinRed, the Republicans’ online fundraising platform, confirmed that Trump raised a whopping $4.2 million the day after his mugshot was released
The jump is likely driven by the results of the Manhattan trial, in which Trump became a convicted felon with 34 guilty charges of falsifying records related to his hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
In the June 20 Rasmussen Reports poll, 46 percent say they would vote for Trump, compared to 36 percent who say they will vote for Biden.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received 9 percent, 2 percent for Cornel West, 1 percent for Jill Stein and the remaining 7 percent chose other candidates or were undecided.
The same poll Rasmussen conducted on May 28 and 30 – before the jury’s verdict in Trump’s trial – showed the former president with a 5 percent lead.
Forty-four percent of voters surveyed last month said they would have chosen Trump, compared to the 39 percent who said they would vote for Biden if the election were held today.
In that poll, RFK Jr. earned 8 percent, while West and Stein each earned 1 percent.
While the latest results aren’t the largest margin of victory that Rasmussen is showing for Trump, it was a huge leap forward from month to month.
This is largely attributed to the first criminal trial against Trump.
Multiple polls showed Trump getting a boost in polling and fundraising after the verdict was handed down in late May.
A poll after the verdict showed that 27 percent of voters would be more likely to cast their vote for Trump after the convocation.