{"id":102297,"date":"2024-06-04T22:12:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/team-trump-claims-guilty-conviction-led-to-141-million-fundraising-bonanza-in-may\/"},"modified":"2024-06-04T22:12:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T22:12:44","slug":"team-trump-claims-guilty-conviction-led-to-141-million-fundraising-bonanza-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/04\/team-trump-claims-guilty-conviction-led-to-141-million-fundraising-bonanza-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Trump Claims Guilty Conviction Led to $141 Million Fundraising Bonanza in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">Is <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/donald-trump-trial-verdict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guilty conviction<\/a> going to hurt his chances of reelection? We won\u2019t know the answer until November\u2014but being found guilty of nearly three dozen class E felonies has apparently not hurt his ability to raise money for his reelection campaign. In fact, in a fully absurd turn of events, it\u2019s made people want to give him excessive amounts of cash.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Trump campaign <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/3ab5098b-f582-4ca3-806d-7ef284c5d008\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/3ab5098b-f582-4ca3-806d-7ef284c5d008&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/3ab5098b-f582-4ca3-806d-7ef284c5d008\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">claimed<\/a> it, along with the Republican National Committee, had raised $141 million, a haul that dwarfed all other months this year. (The figures will not be confirmed until filings are made public later this month.) The group claimed that more than one third of the total, or $53 million, was raised after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records, stemming from the hush money payment made to <strong>Stormy Daniels<\/strong> on the eve of the 2016 election. \u201cWe are moved by the outpouring of support for President Donald J. Trump. The American people saw right through Crooked <strong>Joe Biden<\/strong>\u2019s rigged trial, and sent Biden and Democrats a powerful message\u2014the REAL verdict will come on November 5,\u201d the campaign said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In response, the Biden campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/03\/trump-donation-may-conviction-2024-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Axios, \u201cWe\u2019ll see how the numbers actually shake out come July, but one thing\u2019s for certain: Trump\u2019s billionaire friends are propping up the campaign of a white-collar crook because they know the deal\u2014they cut him checks and he cuts their taxes while working people and the middle class pay the tab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Since Trump was found guilty late last month, his allies on the right have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/trumps-right-wing-allies-predictably-lose-their-s-t-over-guilty-verdict-vow-to-get-revenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vowed<\/a> to get revenge on his perceived enemies. For his part, the ex-president\u2014who will be sentenced on July 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/trump-could-actually-go-to-prison-if-convicted-or-he-could-be-sentenced-to-picking-up-trash-on-the-side-of-the-highway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">possibly to jail time<\/a>\u2014has called on the Supreme Court to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/donald-trump-calls-on-supreme-court-to-overturn-conviction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overturn his conviction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Right-wing Republican: Let\u2019s arrest the doctor who did everything he could to save people\u2019s lives while Trump was telling people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/04\/trump-actually-suggests-injecting-disinfectants-could-cure-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shoot up bleach<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl eYObke ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd jyISiS hloGrW\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1798021267116773779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd jyISiS joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Presumably this is not how Matt Gaetz expected this hearing to go<\/strong><\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl eYObke ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd jyISiS hloGrW\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1798005525659214168\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd jyISiS joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/team-trump-claims-guilty-conviction-led-to-dollar141-million-fundraising-bonanza-in-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Donald Trump\u2019s guilty conviction going to hurt his chances of reelection? We won\u2019t know the answer until November\u2014but being found guilty of nearly three dozen class E felonies has apparently not hurt his ability to raise money for his reelection campaign. In fact, in a fully absurd turn of events, it\u2019s made people want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[158,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-102297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-2024-election","9":"tag-donald-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}