{"id":2256684,"date":"2024-05-31T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-says-it-raised-nearly-35m-in-small-donations-immediately-following-conviction\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T16:49:31","slug":"trump-campaign-says-it-raised-nearly-35m-in-small-donations-immediately-following-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-campaign-says-it-raised-nearly-35m-in-small-donations-immediately-following-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Campaign Claims to Have Raised Nearly $35M in Small Donations Right After Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Ftrump-campaign-says-it-raised-nearly-35m-in-small-donations-immediately-following-conviction%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=2256684&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>Donations poured\u2063 into Donald Trump&#8217;s \u2064campaign \u200bsite post a guilty verdict in \u2062his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-judge-sets-date-for-trumps-first-criminal-trial\/\" title=\"Trump's initial criminal trial date fixed by New York judge\">hush-money trial<\/a>, resulting\u200c in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-green-beret-veteran-raises-150000-in-campaign-for-rep-abigail-spanbergers-seat\/\" title=\"GOP Green Beret vet raises 0K for Rep. Spanberger's seat campaign.\">impressive\u200d fundraising total<\/a> of $34.8 million. The campaign highlighted that a \u2063significant portion came \u2062from new donors. The influx \u2062was so substantial that the donation website, WinRed, crashed temporarily due to overwhelming \u200btraffic. Trump&#8217;s team expressed gratitude\u200d and emphasized\u200b his\u200c ongoing \u2064fight\u2063 for the nation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Donations flooded into Donald Trump\u2019s campaign fundraising site on Thursday as the Trump campaign said it received nearly $35 million in small donations within the first few hours after a Manhattan jury handed down a guilty verdict in his hush-money trial.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign released a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1796542128006316323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> Friday morning, announcing a \u201crecord shattering fundraising haul following the sham Biden Trial verdict totaling $34.8 million,\u201d which was \u201cnearly double the biggest day ever recorded for the Trump campaign on the WinRed platform.\u201d Team Trump added that a staggering 30% of Thursday\u2019s donations came from \u201cbrand new donors to the WinRed platform,\u201d the GOP fundraising website used by the Trump campaign and other Republicans. Small donations are considered to be between $1 and $200.<\/p>\n<p>WinRed even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-campaign-confirms-fundraising-website-crash-after-verdict-tells-supporters-keep-trying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crashed<\/a> on Thursday as people tried to log on to donate, according to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom just minutes after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-and-gop-smash-fundraising-records-after-guilty-verdict\/\" title=\"Trump and GOP shatter fundraising records post guilty verdict\">sham trial verdict<\/a> was announced, our digital fundraising system was overwhelmed with support, and despite temporary delays online because of the amount of traffic, President Trump raised $34.8 million dollars from small dollar donors,\u201d Trump campaign senior advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only was the amount historic, but 29.7% of yesterday\u2019s donors were brand new donors to the WinRed platform,\u201d the statement added. \u201cPresident Trump and our campaign are immensely grateful for the outpouring of support from patriots across our country. President Trump is fighting to save our nation and November 5th is the day Americans will deliver the real verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts brought against him by Manhattan Democratic District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The former president has slammed the trial as a political \u201cwitch hunt\u201d and \u201celection interference.\u201d Trump was convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-jordan-subpoenas-former-manhattan-prosecutor-who-pushed-for-trump-indictment\/\" title=\"Rep. Jordan Subpoenas Former Manhattan Prosecutor Who Pushed for Trump Indictment\">falsifying business records related<\/a> to hush-money payments sent to porn actress Stormy Daniels to cover up an alleged affair. The former president has denied that the affair ever took place and pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Trump released another <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112535601905420886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> Friday morning, maintaining that he \u201cdid nothing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy bookkeeper called a \u2018Legal Expense,\u2019 on the \u2018tiny\u2019 description line of the Ledger, a \u2018Legal Expense,\u2019 openly paid to my lawyer, at that time a fully accredited one. I was not involved in that designation, but what else would you have called it? It was, in fact, a LEGAL EXPENSE. That is the so-called \u2018CRIME,&#8217;\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social. \u201cOn top of that, I wasn\u2019t allowed by the judge to use, in any form, the standard RELIANCE ON COUNSEL DEFENSE (ADVICE OF COUNSEL!). My lawyer, at the time, did virtually everything on the NDA (NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT), and I assumed that what he did was correct. I did nothing wrong, and frankly, there was nothing done wrong \u2013 NDA\u2019s are standard, commonly used, and LEGAL. MAGA2024! WITCH HUNT! IF THIS CAN HAPPEN TO ME, IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1717170739895000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1Ps3XbgPF2rL6bDpL8t5Cu\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Despite his criminal trial in New York \u2014 along with open criminal cases in Washington, D.C., Georgia, and Florida \u2014 Trump continues to lead President Joe Biden in polling, including in each of the seven battleground states, according to the latest data compiled by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolling.com\/elections\/president\/2024\/battleground-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a guilty verdict in his hush-money trial, Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign reported an influx of small donations, totaling almost $35 million within hours. The campaign declared a &#8220;record-breaking fundraising success,&#8221; following the jury&#8217;s decision in Manhattan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":2256685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2154954177-scaled-e1717167619111.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2154954177-scaled-e1717167619111.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256684","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}