Within hours of Donald Trump’s conviction in Manhattan on Thursday, we were already hearing reports of a massive spike in donations to both Trump’s campaign and other Republican organizations’ fundraising efforts. Both of the primary Trump fundraising websites crashed under the strain for a brief time. (Everything was back online yesterday.) But just how big of a hault did the sudden outpouring generate? The Free Beacon tallied the numbers and published the eye-watering figures. Records were set not only for the Trump campaign, but for the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee as well. The lion’s share of it went straight to Trump’s campaign, however. And he’s probably going to need it, particularly if he is kept off the campaign trail even longer after his sentencing on July 11.
Republicans have received record-breaking…
