Former President Donald Trump raked in more than $1 million in campaign fundraising after the first day of his criminal trial in New York on Monday.
According to newly appointed Republican National Committee Co-Chairwoman Lara Trump, who is Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, the former president raised the money as he is being charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records.
“The people of America spoke up yesterday in support of Donald Trump to the tune of a million and a half dollars raised for his campaign,” Lara Trump said on Fox & Friends on Tuesday. “The average donation was $28, so even here, in the abysmal Biden economy, people are coming out, and they are financially supporting this president.”
Official fundraising numbers have not been released.
Donald Trump appeared in the Manhattan courtroom about a year after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted him in April 2023. He is accused of “repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.”
Monday mainly focused on jury selection, in which out of 500 people, 12 will be chosen with six alternates. Of the 96 people screened for jury duty on Monday, 54 were “immediately dismissed.” The jury selection process is set to take one to two weeks.
