Trump solicits donations after FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home

[Jack the Greater]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday tried to turn the news that the FBI had searched his Florida estate to his benefit, citing the investigation in text messages and emails soliciting political donations from his supporters.

The unprecedented search marked a significant escalation of the federal investigation into whether Trump illegally removed records from the White House as he was leaving office in January 2021. Trump continues to publicly flirt with running again for president in 2024 but has not said clearly whether he will do so.

Trump tried to paint the search of his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach as a politically motivated move by President Joe Biden's administration even as the former president plays a key role in Republican primaries ahead of the November midterm elections that will determine control of the U.S. Congress. "They are trying to stop the Republican Party and me once more," Trump said in a fundraising email on Tuesday. "The lawlessness, political persecution, and Witch Hunt, must be exposed and stopped."

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-seeks-raise-money-off-news-fbi-search-his-florida-home-2022-08-09/

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That didn't take long.

[sakabatou]

1. Not surprised whatsoever.

[badhair77]

2. Everything is a donation opportunity in his world.

[PatSeg]

18. Yeah, he is so predictable

I think anyone who was paying attention could see that coming. Both transparent and shameless.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Everything is a grifting opportunity.

He is gonna be really mad when he cannot grift his own funeral.

[catbyte]

4. But of course he is. Grifters gotta grift.

[RKP5637]

5. Trump full well knows how stupid his cult is and he knows he can extract more money from them! n/t

[global1]

6. Are The Tr**p Cultist's Independently Wealthy?.....

I'm thinking that the majority of the Tr**p cultist's are not well educated and not all that well-heeled financially.

How is it - he can keep going to these people - and they continue to send him money for any cause he begs them for?

Where is all this or - their - money coming from?

I can't believe - these people/his people - are that more financially well-heeled that they can afford to give to him whenever he asks them to.

[PghTiny]

13. TFG's power base _IS_ the petit bourgeois

These are the people who can afford, and have, McMansions, SUVs, RVs, 401(k)'s, guns galore, and send their kids to private and/or religious schools.

[orangecrush]

21. What I see here

In rural NW Pa. is a large part of his base are meth addled high school drop outs with criminal records.

73, Technician here!

[paleotn]

7. Why does a "billionaire" need donations?

[pandr32]

8. Gathering up money for his legal fees.

[Turbineguy]

9. "Dear Rube"

[Maeve]

10. Who appointed the head of the FBI?

[louis-t]

19. And the judge that signed off on the search warrant.

[SergeStorms]

11. Any excuse to fleece the sheep.

The sad thing is, those brain-dead morons will send it to him.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. Every time I start to think we've seen it all he goes and pulls shit like this.

[keithbvadu2]

14. My girlfriend gets emails from them wanting money many times a day and it's a bumper crop today.

My girlfriend gets emails from them wanting money many times a day and it's a bumper crop today.

From the Trump family and many other begging politicians.

Most of them directly wanting money and some 'surveys/polls' which will then ask for money.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. When the going gets tough, the not-so-tough FUNDRAISE!!!!!!

[Rebl2]

16. Of course he did

and every other Republican.

[SouthernDem4ever]

17. +1

[orangecrush]

20. One born every minute

[dchill]

22. There's a sucker born every minute.

Trump to them is like Jimmy Swaggart. Or Jim Bakker. Or Robert Tilton. Or.....

As long as the list is, they all need only one think from their thralls. Money.

[trusty elf]

23. ...

[Permanut]

24. Dang, it's so hard to keep up..

I still haven't sent a donation that was requested because Ivana died.

[RocRizzo55]

25. once a grifter

always a grifter. Why would he let this opportunity to rob more people stop him?

[oasis]

26. Keep on draining tons of moolah from the MAGAverse. Love it.

[IronLionZion]

27. MAGAts cause their own economic anxiety

by spending their money on grifters and guns. Then they blame me for stealing their jobs.

[canuckledragger]

28. Of course he did.

Grifting, lying conmen are going to do what they always do.

[twodogsbarking]

29. Toilet clogs can be expensive.

[LogicFirst]

30. This guy solicits money more often than my church.

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