Trump, surrounded by supporters, during his appearance on Tuesday in Mar-a-Lago (Florida) RICARDO ARDUENGO | REUTERS
He has collected twelve million dollars after his indictment
06 abr 2023 . Updated at 9:31 p.m.
The campaign of Donald Trump It shows signs of having received a considerable boost. On Wednesday afternoon he announced that they had collected over $12 million after indictment of the millionaire In addition, the polls point to incontestable support from the Republican base. Trump, for his part, continues his electoral offensive with attacks against his political and judicial rivals.
Trump’s lead over his main rival in the primary, Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, would be between 20 and 30 percentage points, according to the latest data. According to the YouGov survey for The Economist, carried out in the first days of April, the magnate surpasses DeSantis by 22 points. Furthermore, according to the same survey, Trump will beat his most likely rival in the presidential electionsJoe Biden, by two points.
Exhibiting his usual rhetoric, in recent days, the businessman has gone on the attack against his rivals, but also against those responsible for his imputation, whom he perceives as political enemies.
Among his last attacks has been the one who has directed against the daughter of judge Juan Merchn. On Tuesday, after referring to Merchn as a partisan judge, Trump claimed that the magistrate and his family hated him and added that Loren Merchn, his daughter, has worked for Kamala Harris and now receives money from the Biden-Harris campaign, seeking to connect his accusation with an alleged judicial conspiracy and becoming the spearhead of a campaign launched a day before by far-right media.
Loren Merchn, 34, chairs the political consulting firm Authentic, which, indeed, counts progressive politicians and campaigns among its clients, including the 2020 Biden-Harris campaign. Despite this, there is no evidence to point to to an alleged influence of the judge’s daughter on the imputation of the former president.
With his attack on the consultancy, Trump echoed information published on Monday by the far-right portal Gateway Pundit, Identified in the past as spreading hoaxes from the St. Petersburg troll farm linked to oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin. Picked it up on Tuesday Breitbart News, another propaganda portal co-founded by Steve Bannon and which has a large library of false news. On the same day, Donald Trump Jr. published the news of Breitbart on Twitter accompanied by a photo of the woman. That night, Trump incorporated the accusation into his speech at Mar-a-Lago.