Down But Not Out

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has reportedly raised over $34 million since the former US president was found guilty on 34 felony counts in New York, in a trial he denounced as a politically motivated witch hunt.

 

A statement from the Trump campaign on Friday proved a prediction by Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett that the GOP base would donate a million dollars for every count of the New York indictment, correct, if not conservative. 

 

“From just minutes after the sham trial verdict 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”, campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles announced. 

 

“Not only was the amount historic, but 29.7% of yesterday’s donor’s were brand new to the WinRed platform”, they added. “Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats with their election interference political witch hunt have awakened the MAGA* movement like never before”.

 

[*MAGA movement, according to Britannica, is a nativist political movement that emerged in the United States during the 2016 presidential campaign of its putative leader, Donald Trump (right). Its name is derived from Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again”, which became a rallying cry for many Trump supporters during his candidacy, presidency (2017–21), and beyond. 

 

The MAGA movement (often referred to simply as MAGA, or Make America Great Again), was founded on the belief that the United States was once a “great” country but has lost this status owing to foreign influence, both within its borders (via immigration and multiculturalism) and without (via globalization, or the increased integration of multiple national economies). 

 

MAGA members believe that this fall from grace can be reversed through “America first” policies that would provide a greater degree of economic protectionism, greatly reduce immigration, particularly from developing countries, and encourage or enforce what MAGA members consider to be traditional American values]. 

 

The $34.8 million haul was “nearly double” the biggest ever recorded by the Trump campaign, Wiles and LaCivita trumpeted. WinRed was so overwhelmed by the new donors that it briefly crashed on Thursday evening. 

 

According to Politico, Trump had only $49 million in cash at the end of April, compared to President Joe Biden’s $84 million war chest. US laws limit the maximum individual contribution to a campaign to $3,300.