Despite preparing to be arraigned for crimes Donald Trump is hauling in quite the fundraising haul. According to reports published Sunday, the troubled former US President raised about $4m in funding within the first 24 hours of the announcement of the indictment. Axios reports that the Trump campaign also raised another $1m in the 24 hours that followed. Trump is set to be arraigned Tuesday in New York on charges of falsifying business records in relation to a hush-money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels.
per NBC News. “There’s a whole new group of Trump supporters who are angered by what they see as this political persecution,” said Jason Miller of the Trump campaign.