The Trump campaign has seen upticks in fundraising during pivotal moments of his legal battles.

Ultra-wealthy Republican donors are rallying behind former US President Donald Trump following his historic trial and criminal conviction.

Trump, the Republican candidate for this November’s White House election, was found guilty of falsifying business records to conceal hush money paid to former adult-film star Stormy Daniels.

While he has lagged behind Joe Biden and the Democrats’ fundraising efforts, the conviction injected new life into his electoral bid - with his campaign announcing that it raised nearly $53m (£41.6m) in just 24 hours after the verdict.

  • @[email protected]
    28•6 months ago

    The billionaires are at least being rational when they support Trump - they stand to materially benefit if he gets back in power. The poor folks who support him are just utterly moronic.

    • @MataVatnik
      8•6 months ago

      Had that same thought, but it’s such a small percentage.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•6 months ago

      That’s what they thought when they supported hitler, thinking that once he got into power he would mellow out and they could control him, turns out all the things he was saying he was going to do wasn’t him just joking around