Donald Trump has reportedly raised over $5 million in the first 48 hours since that announcement that he would be indicted by Manhattan’s district attorney Alvin Bragg.
Trump officials have confirmed that contributions have been flowing heavily into the former president’s re-election war chest, with over a quarter of funds coming from first-time donors.
“There’s a whole new group of Trump supporters who are angered by what they see as this political persecution,” Jason Miller, a senior campaign adviser for Donald Trump, told Mike Allen of Axios.
The former president has embraced the notoriety that has come from the indictment, touting the legal charges he faces as an act of political assassination.
“PRESIDENT TRUMP RAISES OVER $4 MILLION IN 24 HOURS AFTER INDICTMENT IN ALVIN BRAGG WITCH HUNT,” a campaign email on Friday boasted.
Since the indictment was first publicized on Thursday, the Trump campaign has reportedly run several Facebook advertisements seeking to garner political donations.
“The Radical Left — the enemy of the hard-working men and women of this country — have INDICTED me in a disgusting witch hunt,” one such advertisement read. Another promised contributors donating more than $49 their “very own ‘I Stand with President Trump’ T-shirt for FREE.”
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Trump’s legal team has also publicly contemplated relocating the trial to another part of New York City where the former president will possibly face a more sympathetic hearing.
“Trump’s legal team is considering asking to move his criminal case from Manhattan to the more conservative New York borough of Staten Island out of concern that he won’t be able to get a fair trial,” Bloomberg News reported on Saturday.
Still, the rhetoric coming from the Trump campaign remains adamant that the entire affair is without any legal basis.
“The Manhattan DA’s crusade against President Donald J. Trump is nothing more than political persecution and, just like with every other hoax that President Trump has been targeted with, there is no crime whatsoever, except for election interference by radical Democrats through weaponization of our justice system against President Trump and his supporters,” Trump campaign spokesman, Steven Cheung, told Axios.
Trump is expected to leave his Florida residence of Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach bound for Manhattan on Monday where he will appear in court the following day for his arraignment.
Campaign officials further confirmed that over 16,000 volunteers have signed up