Trump campaign raises record $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict

The Trump campaign said Friday it nearly doubled its single-day fundraising record after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty in his criminal hush money trial.

The Republican’s campaign said it raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors in less than seven hours following the historic verdict Thursday afternoon, in which Trump was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records.

Nearly 30% of those donors were brand new to the Trump donation site WinRed, senior campaign advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in a press release.

The top aides echoed Trump’s post-trial vow that the “real verdict” will come on Election Day, Nov. 5.

Trump is all but guaranteed to participate in that contest as the first former U.S. president, and first major-party nominee, ever to be convicted of crimes.

He is on track to be selected as the official Republican presidential nominee just days after he is scheduled to be sentenced.

The Trump campaign told NBC News that its latest fundraising figure only includes donations sent between Thursday’s verdict and midnight, and that it does not include anything that came in after 12 a.m. ET Friday.

The massive windfall comes less than two weeks after Trump reported a higher monthly fundraising haul than his rival, President Joe Biden, for the first time in the 2024.

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