Donald Trump’s campaign announced on Friday that it had garnered nearly $53 million from online small-dollar donations following his conviction in the New York hush money trial, claiming that the verdict had boosted his support “like never before.”
According to the statement, the record amount raised amounted to more than $2 million every hour.
More than a third of the total came from new donors to the campaign, according to statements made by senior campaign aides Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, who praised the “outpouring of support from patriots across our country.”
The advisors described the Thursday court ruling as a “sham trial verdict,” but they also noted that despite brief online delays “due to the amount of traffic” from small-dollar donors, the “digital fundraising system was overwhelmed with support.”
The total for the day had increased to an astounding $52.8 million by Friday night.
On Thursday, a jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of fabricating financial records to conceal a sexual scandal during the latter half of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Prosecutors claimed that Trump had sex with porn star Stormy Daniels shortly after his wife Melania gave birth in 2006. He then paid hush money ten years later to allay political backlash and mislead voters, fabricating documents to hide the payment.
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Although the verdict is expected to be appealed, he is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11.
“Crooked Joe Biden and the Democrats with their election interference political witch hunt have awakened the MAGA movement like never before,” LaCivita and Wiles said.
There is no proof that President Joe Biden or his administration were involved in the investigation, which was started by New York state rather than the federal government, and the president has made a point of refraining from speaking about the trial.
Trump has a history of using controversy to his advantage; shortly after his conviction, his campaign website started directing users to a fundraising page where he declared himself to be a “political prisoner.”
Within minutes of its launch, though, the page crashed due to an overwhelming number of Trump supporters overloading WinRed, the official Republican Party donation platform.
Trump frequently portrays himself as a martyr ready to give up his freedom in order to defend his followers, framing his legal problems as a conflict between the evil forces of the “deep state” and Biden’s administration.
He has also drawn comparisons between himself and Jesus Christ. In April, he made a second comparison between himself and the anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela of South Africa.
“WITCH HUNT! IF THIS CAN HAPPEN TO ME, IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE!,” Trump posted on his platform Truth Social on Friday.
