Former US President Donald Trump shakes his fist in front of Trump Tower after the verdict in his criminal trial for falsifying business records to hide money paid to silence porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, in New York, United States, May 30, 2024.
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Nearly 30% of those donors were new to the Trump donation site WinRed, senior campaign advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a press release.
The biggest aides echo Trump’s post-trial promise that the “real verdict” will come on Election Day in November. 5.
Trump is all but guaranteed to enter this contest as the first former U.S. president and first major party candidate to be convicted of crimes.
He is set to be selected as the official Republican presidential candidate just days after his ruling.
The Trump campaign told NBC News that its latest fundraising figure only includes donations sent between Thursday’s verdict and midnight, and it does not include anything that happened after midnight ET on Friday.
The massive windfall comes less than two weeks after Trump first announced higher monthly fundraising in 2024 than his rival, President Joe Biden.
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