Former President Donald Trump’s campaign boasted Friday that it had received $52.8 million in donations in the 24 hours since a Manhattan jury found him guilty in his hush money trial.
The staggering sum was contributed to the 77-year-old presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign through its online digital fundraising platform — and amounts to more than $2 million in donations per hour since the verdict was read.
“Biden and his Democrat allies have turned our legal system into a political tool, and Americans from every corner of the country have had enough,” Trump campaign advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita said in a statement.
“This momentum is just getting started and together, as President Trump stated perfectly, Americans will render the real verdict November 5th,” they added.
The campaign noted that more than one-third of donors were new Trump donors.
Trump’s team previously announced that the guilty verdict had generated a “record-shattering” $34.8 million in small-dollar donations between 6 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. Thursday.
The former president was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to payments to his then-lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen for “legal services” that jurors determined were actually going to keep porn star Stormy Daniels from speaking out about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006.
Trump is scheduled to be sentenced July 11, one week before he is scheduled to accept the Republican nomination for president.
