Within 48 hours of the publicization of the Manhattan grand jury’s decision to hit the former president with a felony indictment, Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign raked in more than $5 million in donations — 25 percent of which were from new donors.
Corporate media complained about Trump’s “cash grab” and claimed it was a desperate attempt to “make criminal allegations pay.” Senate, House, and state Democrats who spent years trying to build cases against Trump, however, also raised money off the news without scrutiny.
Instead, they were merely warned by corporate media mouthpieces that their actions could be viewed as inappropriately “opportunistic.”
“Now is also not the time for Democratic candidates to celebrate, to brag, to predict the outcome of the legal cases,” Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki warned during her MSNBC show on Sunday. “If you can, I’d actually just put your head down and stay out of it for now.”
Why would a Biden administration ally want Democrats to back off their years-long “get Trump” campaign now? Because it doesn’t make sense for non-presidential Democrat candidates to fundraise off the indictment unless it is, as Trump repeatedly explained in his fundraising flyers and Facebook advertisements, political persecution.
Here are the Democrats who decided the potential downfall of their political enemy could earn them a few extra bucks.
Adam Schiff
Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, who got himself barred from the House Intelligence Committee he once chaired for spending years weaponizing the committee to try
