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Trump verdict fires up the donor class leading to massive May fundraising haul

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign on Monday announced that they and the Republican National Committee, fueled in part by the former president’s guilty verdicts in his criminal trial, hauled in a stunning $141 million in fundraising in May. That’s up from the $76 million they raked in back in April when they topped President Biden and the Democratic National Committee …

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Trump joins TikTok, the app he once tried to ban as president

Former President Trump has joined TikTok, the embattled Chinese-owned social media platform that he once tried to ban during his years in the White House. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s first post on TikTok was a launch video on Saturday night on a verified account – @realDonaldTrump – showing him waving to fans at an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fight …

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Insiders predict this possible Trump VP pick poses 'existential threat' to key area of Biden support

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of profiles of potential running mates for presidential candidate Donald Trump on the 2024 Republican Party ticket. A potential name on former President Trump’s running mate shortlist is being described by political insiders as an “existential threat” to an area of support seen as key to President Biden’s hopes at winning …

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David Axelrod swats Bill Maher's suggestion Biden could be swapped from Dem ticket: 'Fantasy'

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod was quick to reject what he calls a “fantasy” of removing President Biden from the Democratic ticket ahead of the election. Axelrod, an outspoken critic of Biden’s reelection campaign, appeared on Friday’s installment of “Real Time” where host Bill Maher reiterated his concern about the president’s electability, pointing to a recent Politico report outlining the …

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Tales from The Trail: Trump 'unleashed' with criminal trial over

Donald Trump is wasting no time in getting back on the campaign trail now that the verdict is in and his historic criminal trial in New York City is over. The former president and presumptive Republican presidential nominee headlined a campaign fundraiser just a couple of hours after being convicted. On Saturday he’ll attend a UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) match …

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Trump's criminal conviction is spurring big-dollar campaign contributions as son touts record 24-hour haul

Former president Donald Trump’s criminal conviction is spurring high-dollar donors to flock to his side, with his campaign estimating that approximately $150 million will be raised in the coming days. Charlie Gasparino, a senior correspondent for the FOX Business Network and the Fox News Channel, wrote in an opinion piece for the New York Post that a group of GOP …

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Trump says he would have 'loved' to testify in New York criminal trial

Former President Trump delivered lengthy remarks Friday morning from Trump Tower in New York following his unprecedented trial resulting in the conviction of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee for the 2024 election, said that he wished he testified in his criminal trial N.Y. v. Trump, though it appears he was given counsel otherwise. “I …

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Trump turns conviction into cash, spotlights record fundraising in wake of guilty verdict

Donald Trump is touting “record shattering” fundraising fueled by his convictions in the first trial of a former or current president in the nation’s history. The former president’s campaign announced on Friday morning that it had hauled in $34.8 million in fundraising from 6 p.m. ET to midnight on Thursday, immediately after Trump was found guilty of all 34 felony …

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Bill Maher struggles whether Trump should go to jail following guilty verdict: 'MAGA nation will go nuts'

“Real Time” host Bill Maher struggled over whether former President Trump should go to jail following this week’s guilty verdict. “Here’s the key question: is he going to jail? Will this judge dare do that? And should he?” Maher asked during a panel discussion Friday night. “I mean, I’ve heard some people say if his name wasn’t Donald Trump, he …

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Biden mocks idea he's 'pulling the strings' in Trump prosecution: 'I didn't know I was that powerful'

President Biden mocked the notion that he was the one “pulling the strings” in prosecuting former President Trump to help himself politically. Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Biden outside the White House whether he thought the conviction would help Trump in the presidential election, to which the president responded, “I have no idea.” “Are you worried this could happen to …

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