Donald Trump raised $7.1 million after his arrest in Georgia using an old jailhouse mugshot

According to the American website Politico, Donald Trump has raised $7.1 million since being arrested at a prison in the US state of Georgia. Soon after the former US President was placed in detention on Thursday night, his election campaign started emailing and texting internet contributors to encourage them to purchase t-shirts, posters, bumper stickers, and beverage coolers displaying Trump’s scowling image. The goods cost from $12 and $34 and with the slogan “NEVER SURRENDER!”

According to US media sources, the campaign’s online shop sales of products have been a major source of financing. According to a source familiar with the figures, Trump’s campaign collected $4.18 million on Friday alone, making it the single-highest 24-hour period of his campaign to far.

Donald Trump finished the Georgia proceedings on Thursday and then traveled back to New Jersey where he sent his first message on X (previously Twitter) in more than two years, directing fans to his website. His photograph from the prison is shown on the website’s front page, which requests donations to “SAVE AMERICA during this dark chapter in our nation’s history.”

I was ARRESTED in the famously brutal prison in Fulton County, Georgia, while committing NO CRIME. The American people are aware of what is happening. What has happened is an election interference farce of justice, according to Trump’s contribution request. However, if you can, kindly donate so that Crooked Joe Biden may be removed from the White House and SAVE AMERICA at this troubling time in our country’s history.

This increase in donations demonstrates how the Republican front-runner has been able to use his four indictments to galvanize his ardent fans and turn legal difficulties into campaign funds. Politico reports that the campaign has raised close to $20 million in the last three weeks.

Trump, 77, is the first former US president to be charged with a crime. These accusations have not hurt his chances of winning the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 2024 as he contemplates a second White House run. The four lawsuits that were brought, however, have strengthened his case. He continues to dominate the Republican campaign, setting himself to take on Democratic President Joe Biden in the November 2024 election.

In the Georgia case, Trump is accused with 13 felonies, including racketeering, a criminal that is often associated with organized crime. He is accused of arranging an illegal panel of electors to undermine the formal congressional certification of Biden’s 2020 victory and forcing state authorities to annul his election loss.