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Trump used the Mar-a-Lago raid to fire up supporters, raising up to $1 million a day in donations: report

Author:     Lloyd Lee
Source:     Insider
Publication Date:     Aug 17, 2022, 6:01 PM
 Link: Trump used the Mar-a-Lago raid to fire up supporters, raising up to $1 million a day in donations: report
Stephan:   It's not just that support for Trump in the MAGAt world has gone up, his followers are also sending him millions of dollars. Unbelievable but true, and it tells us how bad the Great Schism Trend has become. It also makes clear how close the country is to breaking apart.
 Credit: Yuki Iwamura / AP
  • The FBI searched Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, home for classified documents on August 8.
  • Trump’s fundraising team seized the moment to fire up supporters and solicit donations.
  • Donations peaked at $1 million for at least two days, according to The Washington Post.

Donald Trump raised up to $1 million a day in donations after the FBI executed a search warrant on August 8 at the former president’s home in Palm Beach, Florida.

Over the past week, Trump’s fundraising team solicited donations through a flurry of emails that denounced the FBI search as a “threat to democracy” and an “unprecedented infringement of the rights of every American citizen” by Democrats.

“We need EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN PATRIOT to take action and bolster our Official Trump Defense Fund,” one email said. “This is the ONLY way to DEFEND President Trump and help him SAVE AMERICA.”

Supporters quickly took the call to action. For at least two days, figures reached up to $1 million dollars, according to a report from The Washington Post.

It’s not clear how much was raised in total since […]

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