Trump campaign reports massive fundraising haul in wake of New York verdict

Though liberal media pundits were high fiving each other and toasting former President Donald Trump's conviction last week, it did not take long before a notable boomerang effect gave many of them serious pause.

As CBS News reports, in the first 24 hours after Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts, his campaign and the GOP reported a stunning fundraising haul of $52.8 million, bolstering the suspicions of many that the entire case is poised to dramatically backfire on the leftists who initially cheered it.

Speaking with their pocketbooks

According to Trump campaign officials, the massive tally totals over half of the donations received in all of April and to many, it is indicative of the nation's collective outrage at what occurred in New York.

The good news for the former president did not stop there, because the specific nature of many of the post-verdict contributions bodes well for his chances come November.

Campaign officials revealed that a large proportion of Thursday's takings came from small-dollar contributors.

Impressively, roughly 30% of those individuals were first-time donors to the Republican Party's fundraising platform, a fact suggestive of a newly energized segment of the electorate that is reacting to what is perceived as the gross injustice and corruption on display throughout the six-week trial in Manhattan that led to Trump's conviction.

History repeating itself

As CBS News notes, this is not the first time Trump has been able to convert legal difficulties into fundraising success.

Two of Trump's most lucrative fundraising days were also linked to key moments in recent legal battles, including on April 4, 2023, when he was first arraigned in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, and Aug. 25 of last year, one day after his Fulton County, Georgia mugshot was released.

Trump also brought in large sums of contributions in the immediate aftermath of his two federal indictments as well as when he was ordered to pay the staggering sum of $454 million in fines stemming from a civil fraud case, also in New York.

They never learn

Despite the obvious temporal relationship between Democrat-led lawfare against Trump and an overwhelming influx of financial support heading his way, the liberals who are determined to force the former president from the political arena continue their pursuit at what many pundits believe is their great peril.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich mused that the glee with which opponents greeted Trump's conviction may well be short-lived and that the hush money trial is likely to “backfire on the left and leave them...weaker than they were if they never [had] gone down this road.”

Gingrich continued to describe the aftermath of the Trump conviction, saying, “I think people just looked up and said, 'This is now so sick that I have to get involved,'” and they pulled out their checkbooks in large numbers to do so.

Even those who are not in Trump's corner have predicted a backlash for the Democrats in the wake of last week's verdict, with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy echoing the sentiments voiced by Gingrich, as Fox News notes.

“This conviction is going to backfire on the Democrats. I think every time that President Trump has been indicted, that his approval ratings actually increase, his popularity increases. I think there's a large number of Americans who are going to see this as the politicization...the weaponization of the enforcement agencies, and I think that's going to hurt,” Kennedy said, but precisely how much is something that still remains to be seen.