Trump posts $175M bond in civil fraud case
A court docket submitting says former president Donald Trump has posted $175 million bond to avert asset seizure whereas he appeals his civil fraud penalty.
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WASHINGTON – Aides to former President Donald Trump mentioned Wednesday that Republicans raised $65.6 million in March, searching for to allay GOP considerations about President Joe Biden’s benefit in marketing campaign money.
A joint announcement by the Trump marketing campaign and the Republican National Committee mentioned they ended March with $93.1 million money readily available, although that would seem to nonetheless path the Biden marketing campaign tempo of fundraising.
Trump “has once more created a fundraising juggernaut amongst Republicans,” mentioned Michael Whatley, the not too long ago elected chair of the revamped Republican National Committee.
Last month, the Biden marketing campaign mentioned it and the Democratic National Committee had $155 million readily available after elevating $53 million in February.
Biden’s staff has not introduced their fundraising figures for March, which included an enormous fundraiser in New York City that includes former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
In recent months, Biden has been lapping Trump by way of fundraising, partly as a result of Trump additionally wants to lift money to pay authorized charges related to a raft of legal indictments and civil court docket judgements in opposition to him.
The Biden marketing campaign mentioned it was unimpressed with Trump’s latest fundraising, noting that the RNC has laid off folks and in the reduction of on operations.
In a memo, the Biden marketing campaign mentioned that Trump “has a severe common election downside. Not solely is his cash-strapped marketing campaign firing workers and shutting neighborhood facilities, he’s exhibiting he has no path to building the coalition essential to win 270 electoral votes.”
Biden marketing campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa added that “Trump is spending what money he does have on everything but reaching out to the voters – and it’s obvious he doesn’t have the infrastructure, the donor base, or the broad appeal to win this election.”
Whatley, elected chair of the RNC final month after a shake-up engineered by Trump, mentioned: “While he has been the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party for lower than a month, the RNC and Trump marketing campaign are one unified operation and targeted on victory.”
The Trump marketing campaign staff is scheduling a sequence of high-dollar fundraisers within the weeks forward.
Susie Wiles, a senior adviser to Trump, mentioned in a press release that the marketing campaign and the RNC have been “steadily ramping up our fundraising efforts” to compete with the Democrats.
“Republicans is probably not beneficiaries of the self largess from Hollywood and Silicon Valley elites,” she mentioned, “however President Trump is proud to be supported by donations from voters who’re the spine of this nation.”
