50 reasons why $70 million plus in small donations poured in after Trump verdict

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg campaigning for office on the promise of getting Trump.37.
60% : Here's the first paragraph from a March 2024 Washington Post report on the "three presidents" gala at Radio City Music Hall: "In a show of force his campaign is calling the 'most successful political fundraiser in American history,' President Biden raised more than $25 million during a New York event Thursday featuring former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.
41% : The four-days-a-week of trial in the spring of the election year, a schedule requiring Trump to be in a Manhattan court room for six weeks, thus interfering with the presidential campaign48.
41% : When the jury quickly voted to convict, it appears various combinations of the concerns that have accumulated since 2015 unleashed an outpouring of support for the former president in the only way these contributors knew how to signal -- in the same fashion Merchan signaled he was with Biden and against Trump: With a small indeed symbolic donation to to the various campaign websites.
38% : TRUMP'S CRIMINAL CONVICTION IS SPURRING BIG-DOLLAR CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AS SON TOUTS RECORD 24-HOUR HAULWhat that mountain of new money tells us is that the verdicts constituted a "last straw" for hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters, old and new.
36% : And if Merchan sentences Trump to jail time -- as I fully expect he will because I don't think his case of Trump Derangement Syndrome has fully run its course yet -- another tidal wave of tens and twenties and more will hit the Trump campaign bank accounts.
34% : The gag order on Trump issued by Merchan.47.
32% : The gag order on Trump issued by trial Judge Chutkin in the case brought by Smith in D.C.46.
31% : The appointment of a different Special Counsel, Robert Hur, to President Biden's classified documents case and the obviously different standard for prosecution applied to Biden than was applied to Trump.33.
30% : There is much more, such as the Colorado and Maine efforts to toss Trump off the ballot, but the Supreme Court acted with dispatch and ruled correctly on those specific abuses of power, so while they are part of the mosaic of abuses of law and process, they have at least been resolved finally and fully (and in Trump's favor).
29% : There are as many motives as there are donors, but having spoken with a dozen contributors -- mostly new donors -- on my radio show Monday, their responses confirmed for me my hunch that the general feeling at large in at least half the country is that the New York trial and convictions were yet another abuse of power done in order to "get Trump."
29% : The gag order on Trump issued by trial judge Engoron in the case brought by James.45.
28% : The conduct of and civil case against Trump brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.34.
25% : Bragg filing an indictment against Trump resurrecting time-barred misdemeanors but without specifying in the indictment the "second crime" that turned those time-barred misdemeanors into felonies ripe for prosecution.38.
19% : Each of these "straws" brings consciously to mind a discrete abuse of power since Trump came down the escalator in 2015, and the eruption of the contributions volcano is evidence that the outrage is real and widespread:1.

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