Trump campaign raises record $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict
PUBLISHED FRI, MAY 31 202410:04 AM EDTUPDATED 2 MIN AGO
Kevin Breuninger@KEVINWILLIAMB
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KEY POINTS
- The presidential campaign of Donald Trump said it raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors following the former president’s criminal conviction, adding that nearly 30% of those donors were brand new to the Trump donation site WinRed.
- The 12-member jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a scheme to conceal a hush money payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump pumps a fist outside Trump Tower after the verdict in his criminal trial over charges that he falsified business records to conceal money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in New York City, U.S. May 30, 2024.
Eduardo Munoz | Reuters
The Trump campaign said Friday it nearly doubled its single-day
fundraising record after a New York jury found
Donald Trump guilty in his
criminal hush money trial.
The Republican’s campaign said it raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors in less than seven hours
following the historic verdict Thursday afternoon, in which Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Nearly 30% of those donors were brand new to the Trump donation site WinRed, senior campaign advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a press release.
The top aides echoed
Trump’s post-trial vow that the “real verdict” will come on Election Day, Nov. 5.
Trump is all but guaranteed to participate in that contest as the first former U.S. president, and
first major-party nominee, ever to be convicted of crimes.
He is on track to be selected as the official Republican presidential nominee just days after he is scheduled to be sentenced.
The Trump campaign told NBC News that its latest fundraising figure only includes donations sent between Thursday’s verdict and midnight, and that it does not include anything that came in after 12 a.m. ET Friday.
The massive windfall comes less than two weeks after Trump reported a higher
monthly fundraising haul than his rival, President
Joe Biden, for the first time in the 2024.