Arrest was financially rewarding for former President Donald Trump, whose campaign raked in millions after surrendering to Fulton County Jail officials for arrest and booking.
The former president’s campaign received greater than $7 million after his surrender for alleged violations of Georgia’s racketeering law, infamously called RICO, according to a Politico report.
Trump raised $4 million on Friday alone, the report noted, making it the single biggest fundraising day of his campaign to date.
Most of the money raised since he was booked by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ indictments came from sales of merchandise, such as T-shirts bearing his mugshot, the Politico report noted.
It appears the mugshot that many liberals expected would spell the death knell for Trump’s 2024 campaign has morphed into a potent political benefit for the 45th president.
The $20 million in campaign donations reported during the last three weeks by the Trump campaign follow Special Counsel Jack Smith’s second batch of indictments, in Washington, D.C., and his Georgia indictments.
Apparently, the more Democrat prosecutors arrest Trump, the more money he gets from campaign supporters because he raised more in the last three weeks than in the last three months.
The campaign had previously warned against unauthorized use of the image for fundraising, despite it being in the public domain.
Trump’s contribution surge during the last few weeks comes at a welcome time because his campaign was reportedly hemorrhaging money from legal bills. Cash is a campaign’s lifeblood in modern politics.
Recent financial disclosures revealed that Trump’s political action committee and its affiliated PACs have expended significant sums on legal defenses in four distinct criminal cases involving the former president.
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