We can, and maybe even should just copy verbatim this article from August 6th titled “No word from Trump campaign yet on fundraising since indictment,” but not really feeling self-plagiarism right now.
There’s no real novel dimension to add to this besides the time and additional indictments elapsed since we last tried to check in on any public mention of how much disgraced former President Trump’s felony charges added to his campaign’s coffers – in contrast to the boasts about how much the first two big indictments supercharged the MAGA base’s willingness to set their money on fire.
The bottom line is that it’s been 22 days since he was hit with four federal counts in DC for his post-2020 election coup attempt, 13 days since two more superseding obstruction charges for trying to cover up his hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago dropped, and nine days since the Fulton County, Georgia grand jury slapped him with 13 different Georgia state felonies and there’s still no new Google or Twitter results in a search of “Trump campaign raises after indictment.”
Again, it’s not always what they are saying that can tell you how things are going. The silence from the MAGA Reich on how much money is coming in is growing louder and louder as more time passes. It doesn’t mean anything in the primary given Trump’s sense of entitlement being pretty well justified by his polling numbers, but that’s the primary. The general’s going to be a little different.