Trump has made history again…
Immediately after the Manhattan jury in the Trump criminal hush money case found the former president guilty of 34 counts, a wave of donations overwhelmed the Trump campaign website.
“The American people see through Crooked Joe Biden’s rigged show trial,” Trump’s campaign posted on the social platform X. “So many Americans were moved to donate to President Trump’s campaign that the WinRed pages went down. We are working on getting the website back online as quickly as possible.”
Trump’s campaign website redirected visitors to WinRed, the official GOP fundraising site. But the page to donate to the former president said it was under maintenance. The campaign briefly redirected to a different donation processor amid the technical difficulties.
Trump campaign co-manager Chris LaCivita urged supporters to “log back on and try again” if they received an error message.
Trump is expected to appeal the verdict.
Despite Trump becoming the first president to be convicted of a felony, the verdict is not expected to dissuade voters.
The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist national poll showed 67% of registered voters nationally wouldn’t be swayed by a guilty verdict against Trump, while 15% said it would make them more likely to vote for him. Another 17% said a guilty verdict would make them less likely to vote for Trump.
According to the Washington Examiner, among Republicans surveyed in the poll, 25% said a guilty verdict would make them more likely to vote for the former president, while 10% said it would make them less likely to vote for him. Only 7% of Democrats said a guilty verdict would make them more likely to vote for Trump, and 27% said it would make them less likely to vote for Trump.
Among coveted independent voters, 15% said a guilty verdict would make them more likely to vote for Trump, and 11% said it would make them less likely.
In contrast, 76% of all voters said a not-guilty verdict wouldn’t affect their votes.
This article originally appeared on Great America News Desk. Republished with permission.
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