{"id":2013571,"date":"2023-08-27T13:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-leader-answers-for-controversial-fundraising-pitch-during-trump-arrest\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T17:44:53","slug":"biden-campaign-leader-answers-for-controversial-fundraising-pitch-during-trump-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-leader-answers-for-controversial-fundraising-pitch-during-trump-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden campaign leader addresses controversial fundraising pitch amid Trump arrest."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-campaign-leader-answers-for-controversial-fundraising-pitch-during-trump-arrest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2013571&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A \u200dtop aide from\u200c President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>&#8216;s \u200c2024\u200c re-election campaign sought to\u2064 minimize \u2064a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rand-paul-is-jealous-of-anthony-fauci-cnn-host\/\" title=\"Rand Paul Is \u2018Jealous\u2019 Of Anthony Fauci: CNN Host\">fundraising pitch<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-slammed-for-fundraising-off-the-weaponization-of-justice-as-trump-arrested-in-georgia\">drew backlash<\/a> from conservative figures\u200d and Republican officials.<\/p>\n<p>Campaign co-chairman Cedric Richmond was pressed on Sunday to answer\u200c for\u2064 Biden&#8217;s soliciting donations on Thursday around\u2063 the time former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\">Donald\u2064 Trump<\/a> \u2014 the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 race \u2014 was arrested \u2064in Georgia on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-arrest-pennsylvania-woman-accused-of-stealing-pelosis-laptop\/\" title=\"Feds Arrest Pennsylvania Woman Accused of Stealing Pelosi\u2019s Laptop\">charges related<\/a> \u200dto the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Trump&#8217;s motorcade was pulling into the Fulton County Jail, President Biden sent out a fundraising pitch saying, &#8216;apropos of nothing, I think today is a great day to give \u200cto my campaign.&#8217; That&#8217;s not particularly subtle,\u201d\u200d said Martha Raddatz, co-anchor of ABC&#8217;s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Apropos of nothing, I think today&#8217;s a\u200b great day to give to\u200c my campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tj5cURqgQT\">https:\/\/t.co\/Tj5cURqgQT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1694854654834643104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Trump&#8217;s Legal Problems and Biden&#8217;s Campaign<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cBut are Trump&#8217;s legal problems going to be \u2063part of your campaign against him?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Richmond said in response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose emails go out \u2013 you \u200bknow, \u200cyou get five and six \u2064of them a \u2062day. \u200cSo, I wouldn&#8217;t read much into that,\u201d Richmond added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though it was\u2063 the \u200cday of the\u200b Fulton County Jail. Okay,\u201d Raddatz quipped \u200cbefore moving on with the interview.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden campaign \u200dco-chair Cedric Richmond on Biden&#8217;s fundraising tweet just as Democrats had President Trump arrested in Georgia:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those emails go out, you know, you get five or six of them\u2062 a\u200c day so I wouldn&#8217;t read much into that&#8221; \ud83e\udd14 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mwrQ9Cf9Ju\">pic.twitter.com\/mwrQ9Cf9Ju<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1695806512772292929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Biden&#8217;s Controversial Fundraising Tweet<\/h2>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s post, viewed 5.9 million times as \u2063of Sunday, drew the ire of the GOP and its\u200b allies.<\/p>\n<p>Among those to criticize the post was Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro, who <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/benshapiro\/status\/1695101186263650557\">said<\/a>, \u201cLook at the timing on this tweet: precisely the time \u200dset for Trump&#8217;s arrest last night. Trump\u200d says that this is election interference; Biden says it isn&#8217;t. This tweet is pretty good evidence Trump is right. Biden is now saying the quiet part out loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<h2>Trump&#8217;s Mugshot\u2062 and Fundraising<\/h2>\n<p>Though he has now\u2063 been indicted \u2064across four \u200ccases, Trump posed\u2064 for his first mugshot while being processed in Atlanta last week. His campaign\u200b quickly\u200b turned the image into a fundraising <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-mugshot-merch-available-from-campaign-nearly-instantly\">pitch with merchandise<\/a> \u200c selling on its website, \u200breportedly \u200dleading to \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-fundraising-numbers-released-after-mugshot\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-campaign-leader-answers-for-controversial-fundraising-pitch-during-trump-arrest\/\" title=\"Biden campaign leader addresses controversial fundraising pitch amid Trump arrest.\">multi-million dollar \u2062haul<\/a><\/a> in the\u200c ensuing 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was released from the Georgia jail on a $200,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p>The former\u2063 president and more than \u200da dozen allies are expected to be arraigned early next month on \u200bconspiracy\u200d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-georgia-grand-jury-charges-ex-president-with-rico-charges-for-2020-election\/\" title=\"Donald Trump indicted: Georgia grand jury charges ex-president with RICO for 2020 election.\">racketeering charges related<\/a> to the 2020 election. Trump has broadly denied any \u2063wrongdoing across \u2064all\u2062 the criminal and civil cases he faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top aide from President Joe Biden&#8217;s 2024 re-election campaign downplayed a controversial fundraising pitch that received criticism from conservatives and Republicans. Cedric Richmond, campaign co-chairman, was questioned about Biden&#8217;s donation request coinciding with former President Donald Trump&#8217;s potential candidacy for the 2024 GOP nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2013572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}