Trump raking in campaign donations after his ‘arrest’ prediction: report
Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign has reportedly raked in in $1.5 million in donations since Saturday, when the former president announced he expected to be arrested on Tuesday. (That, of course, did not happen.)
To put these numbers in context, in the six weeks following his 2024 campaign kickoff event, Trump raised roughly $9.5 million, for an average of roughly $224,000 per day. Since Saturday morning, if today’s reporting is accurate, the Republican has raised roughly $500,000 per day.
“In other words, saying he’d be arrested gave the former president a significant boost — which might help explain why Trump made the false prediction in the first place.”
Last-minute witness may have been a tactical blunder for Trump
As MSNBC Daily columnist Glenn Kirschner told “MSNBC Reports” moments ago:
In the event Robert Costello had any truly damaging information about Michael Cohen’s credibility or conduct, what the defense team has done is given the prosecutors a golden opportunity to drill down, to investigate anything Costello said, and to meet the force of it with, perhaps, a witness that can rebut what Costello said. All of that now will be diffused before there’s ever a trial, so I think that’s a win for the prosecutors.
Cause for grand jury delay is unclear, but here are a few potential reasons
News that the grand jury will not meet today subverts expectations about the timing of a potential indictment. We don’t know the cause of the delay at this time, but here are just a few of the possible reasons.
One possibility stems from the issues raised by Stormy Daniels, who consulted Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina about representing her around February 2018. And though Tacopina-linked sources deny he intends to represent Trump in any criminal case stemming from the Manhattan DA’s hush money investigation, NBC News has also confirmed that Daniels’s lawyer has turned over to the DA’s office…
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