The Republican's campaign said it raised $34.8 million from small-dollar donors in less than seven hours following the historic verdict Thursday afternoon.

Key Points

  • The presidential campaign of Donald Trump said it raised a record $34.8 million from small-dollar donors in the hours after his criminal hush money case conviction in New York.
  • Trump was found guilty by a Manhattan Supreme Court jury of falsifying business records related to his scheme with Michael Cohen to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
  • The Republican is set to face President Joe Biden in November’s election, in a rematch of their 2020 contest for the White House.
  • MagicShel@programming.dev
    755·
    5 months ago

    Honestly, good. Squeeze those stupid motherfuckers dry. Because when they’ve given everything they have to Trump and they get nothing in return except deeper into poverty, that’s when they will feel the pain they deserve.

    But the depth of their devotion to someone who gives zero fucks about them is truly astounding.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      511·
      5 months ago

      I agree with the sentiment completely, but they’ll be even more poor and desperate. Which makes them easier to control/manipulate and even more likely to accept whatever scapegoat their golden calf god tells them is the cause of their poverty.

      • MagicShel@programming.dev
        22·
        5 months ago

        I just made another comment elsewhere that said essentially I don’t think democracy works when the wealth disparity gets too high, which at its root is pretty similar to what you’re saying here, so I totally agree with your point.

        • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
          3·
          5 months ago

          It can if set up right. It’s just not set up right.

          I would love for potential politicians to be completely anonymous. You get their political platform, their voting history, and that’s it. The candidates would be randomly selected from a database of people with the necessary qualifications to hold office, so no one can really buy their way in.

      • MagicShel@programming.dev
        141·
        5 months ago

        A significant portion of America supported the fucking Nazis so yeah, I think it’s clear we didn’t learn shit. Not even the stupid fuckers who saw it happen in front of their eyes.

    • waddle_dee@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      There’s a lot of folks out there with tons of money that give plenty and won’t get anywhere close to poverty. Trump has a tectonic donor base that has money.

    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      5 months ago

      Creating desperate and angry people is generally not a good thing for anyone even if it might provide some temporary emotional satisfaction.

    • Beetlejuice001@lemmy.wtf
      2·
      5 months ago

      I’ve subscribed to the theory white supremacists backed by Christian Nationalist Billionaires have fueled this entire conflict and culture war.

      First the pedophiles infiltrated the church, then the White Supremacy movement saw how easy it was and joined in.

      Purely speculative other then project 2025 as proof

    • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online
      40·
      5 months ago

      The GOP has been fighting a war against our educational system for about 70+ years. Add to that the fact that most of these people have been voting R for generations, so it’s basically like a religion to them.

      There’s also the news networks that feed them the bullshit they’ve been brainwashed into wanting to believe.

      Add it all together and you get yourself a cult.

    • Wahots@pawb.social
      151·
      5 months ago

      Populism infects the world every century. It’s a simmering, low level infection until the vaccine (horrors of war) wears off, and Populism turns into fascism and millions of young men are sacrificed to push the infection back to the brink yet again.

      The only cure is education, and giving people the tools for a better and brighter future where they have the sense that they have everything to lose should they regress.

    • rauls4@lemm.ee
      7·
      5 months ago

      Honestly, I still wonder if I am having a really long bad dream. It just doesn’t add up. In the past elections have been close. This fucking asshole is despised by every democrat and a good deal of ex-republicans but he still is ahead in the polls. How does that square up?

  • aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
    392·
    5 months ago

    presidential campaign of Donald Trump said it raised

    The word “said” in that sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. They can say they raised eleventy brazilian dollars. It doesn’t make it true. The media is doing a heck of a job amplifying Trump’s lies.

    • Chocrates@lemmy.world
      7·
      5 months ago

      Do you have reason to think they are lieing? Edit: other than the rack their lips are moving.

      • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
        3·
        5 months ago

        If anything, I’d expect them to under-report, not over exaggerate. That way they can siphon off the rest for hush money payments.

  • mad_asshatter@lemmy.world
    24·
    5 months ago

    What was the record?

    What was the old record?

    Was it adjusted for inflation?

    Who’s recording and measuring these records?

    • Bipta@kbin.social
      6·
      5 months ago

      I don’t know the answers except that they don’t adjust these for inflation. But I do know from years of watching politics that the old record isn’t anywhere close to this. I don’t recall ever even seeing $10 million raised in one day.

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
      5·
      5 months ago

      Yeah has there been anything, that Trump’s been in charge of, not lied about the smallest thing? It’s pretty much a prerequisite for working under him. All things he leads is to puff his ego to the media and funnel any revenue to his own bank account. Then go bankrupt so Trump can keep the cash.

  • Mostly_Harmless_Variant@lemmy.world
    111·
    5 months ago

    This makes me think of the sunk cost fallacy. I figure they are so heavily invested at this point that they are doubling down. If they don’t have Trump to back their views, they might realize being a bigot isn’t cool.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      6·
      5 months ago

      It’s a lot like his businesses back on the day. He tried the well being of something larger to him personally, so that a lot of stakeholders are desperate to bail him out specifically lest their larger concern is tanked. When his properties were in trouble in the 80s, investors/creditors helped boost his reputation because that was the only hope to salvage their money.

      Here he made it so the entire Republican party will succeed or fail according to his personal situation. So desperation to mitigate his personal mess for the sake of their precious Republican party.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
    6·
    5 months ago
    Thomas Tusser in Five Hundred Pointes 
of Good Husbandrie, 1573:

  A foole & his money,
  be soone at debate:
  which after with sorow,
  repents him to late.
  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
    61·
    5 months ago

    You can’t buy more voters this election.

    You actually haven’t been able to buy voters in a while.

    People are locked in. It’s all about driving your base at this point.

  • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    [1] Without external confirmation, I don’t buy it. [2] I’ll never understand why it isn’t a major talking point to tell these mark-ass tricks that the man is playing them for the trick-ass marks they are and fleecing them for all they have, but I guess if even Jesus is too weak they’ll just have to tithe to a different, properly sadistic megachurch.