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Former US President Donald Trump raised $7.1 million since his arrest in Georgia on Thursday as his election campaign sought to capitalize on the mug shot taken at a Fulton County jail, according to a report published by Bloomberg News...
Trump's fundraising accelerated after he returned to X (formerly Twitter) for the first time since January 2021 to post his mug shot, a link to a fundraising landing page for his presidential campaign, the person said as quoted by Bloomberg News..
The Trump Save America Joint Fundraising Committee is also selling his mug shot, saying it would give out a T-shirt in exchange for a USD 47 donation..
The Trump campaign claimed in a fundraising email that his mug shot was an attempt to make him look like a criminal in front of the entire world," The Post reported..
Even before the mug shot was snapped at the jail in Atlanta, an email from Trumps joint fund-raising committee primed his supporters by saying, Its been reported that if I am unjustly indicted and arrested in the Atlanta Witch Hunt, a mug shot will be taken of me.".
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