{"id":52942,"date":"2024-06-01T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52942"},"modified":"2024-06-01T18:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T08:48:30","slug":"trump-campaign-announces-53-mn-raised-after-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52942","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign announces $53 mn raised after conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign said Friday it had raised nearly $53 million in online small-dollar donations after he was convicted in his New York hush money trial, boasting that the verdict had galvanized his support &#8220;like never before.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The record haul was equivalent to more than $2 million raised per hour, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Senior campaign aides Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles said in statements that more than a third of the total came from new donors to the campaign and hailed an &#8220;outpouring of support from patriots across our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calling the Thursday court decision a &#8220;sham trial verdict&#8221; the advisors reported that the &#8220;digital fundraising system was overwhelmed with support&#8221; despite temporary online delays &#8220;because of the amount of traffic&#8221; from small-dollar donors.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday evening, the day&#8217;s total had climbed to a whopping $52.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>A jury convicted Trump Thursday on all 34 charges of falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal in the final stages of the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Trump had sex with porn actress Stormy Daniels soon after his wife Melania had given birth in 2006, and then paid hush money a decade later to avoid the fallout and deceive voters, before creating false paperwork to conceal the payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign said Friday it had raised nearly $53 million in online small-dollar donations after he was convicted in his New York hush money trial, boasting that the verdict had galvanized his support &#8220;like never before.&#8221; The record haul was equivalent to more than $2 million raised per hour, it said. Senior campaign aides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1650],"class_list":["post-52942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-trump-campaign-announces-53-mn-raised-after-conviction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}