The former US President Donald Trump has more than at an event in Florida for his renewed presidential bid $50 million in campaign contributions collected.
At the event at the hedge fund manager’s estate John Paulson A good 50.5 million dollars (46.6 million euros) were raised in Palm Beach, said Trump’s campaign team and the Republican National Committee, the national organizing committee of the Republican Party.
The result of a fundraising campaign for the re-election of the Democratic US President Joe Biden At the end of March in New York, however, things looked “hopeless,” the statement continued.
According to Biden’s campaign team, at least $25 million in donations were raised at the event with Biden’s Democratic predecessors Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Biden’s team celebrated the result as a record.
Trump supporter Paulson now emphasized that this result had been significantly exceeded at the fundraising party in his house. “This sold-out event raised more money than any single campaign fundraising event ever has,” Paulson said. “This overwhelming support shows enthusiasm for President Trump and his policies.”
“This is an incredible evening before it even begins”
Trump appeared with his wife Melania to the event. “This is an incredible evening even before it has begun,” emphasized the ex-president. People wanted to take part in “making America great again. And that’s what happened,” the 77-year-old added, referring to his campaign slogan.
The businessman was among those on the guest list in Palm Beach Robert Bigelow, who made a fortune in the hotel industry, and John Catsimatidis, owner of a grocery chain – both major Republican donors. Also some of Trump’s former intra-party rivals like Senator Tim Scott and the governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum were invited.
For $814,600 with Trump at the table
The guests loudly cost a place at Trump’s table Washington Post $814,600. The proceeds will be used, among other things, to pay for Trump’s campaign trips, his staff and election commercials on television. According to experts, the election campaign before the polls on November 5th will be more expensive than ever before in US history.
Biden, who likes to portray himself as a representative of the middle class, criticized Trump’s gigantic campaign fundraising event in advance. “While Trump collects money from a bunch of hedge fund billionaires, our grassroots campaign raised $187 million this quarter because of people like you,” the US Democrat wrote to his supporters on the online service X on Saturday. Biden’s campaign coffers are currently better filled than Trump’s because the Republican has to raise large sums of money due to various legal disputes.
Trump compared himself to Nelson Mandela
In connection with his judicial affairs, Trump has once again aligned himself with the late South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. Trump railed against the New York judge in a long post on his Truth Social platform on Saturday Juan Merchan who had imposed a restricted speech ban against the ex-president in a criminal case.
The criminal case concerns the alleged falsification of business documents to disguise a hush money payment to the porn actress Stormy Daniels. Trump, who had insulted the judge and his daughter in numerous posts on Truth Social, accused Merchan of violating “the law and the Constitution.” If this “totally biased” judge wants to send him to prison “for telling the most obvious truth, then I would be happy to become a modern-day Nelson Mandela – it will be my great honor,” Trump wrote.
The 77-year-old, whose re-candidacy for the Republicans in the presidential election in November is almost certain, had already compared himself last year to the anti-apartheid fighter and later Nobel Peace Prize winner and President Mandela, who died in 2013.