纽约-对于前总统唐纳德·特朗普来说，一张照片值...超过700万美元。
特朗普的竞选团队表示，自周四他在佐治亚州富尔顿县监狱被指控非法策划推翻2020年以来，他已经筹集了710万美元选举并成为美国历史上第一位有面部照片的前总统。
发言人张致恒表示，仅在周五，该活动就带来了418万美元的收入——这是迄今为止的最高票房。
创纪录的收获突显出特朗普的法律困境如何成为他竞选活动的筹款福音，尽管他的政治运作已在辩护上花费了数千万美元。不断增加的法律指控也未能削弱特朗普在共和党总统初选中的地位，这位前总统现在经常在民调中以30至50个百分点的优势击败对手。
虽然特朗普形容他周四的出现是一次“可怕的经历”，并表示为历史性的面部照片拍照“不是一种舒服的感觉”，但他的竞选活动立即抓住了筹款的力量。
甚至在他飞回新泽西的家之前，他的竞选团队就已经在向支持者进行募捐了。特朗普在他的真实社交网站上放大了这一信息，并在两年半的时间里第一次返回X网站(原名Twitter)，分享图像并将支持者引向一个筹款页面。
几个小时内，该活动还发布了一个新的商品系列，以t恤为特色，现在包括啤酒酷兹、保险杠贴纸、签名海报、保险杠贴纸和大头照杯。
Cheung说，那些在没有提示的情况下购买商品或捐赠的人的捐款飙升，特别是在特朗普的推特之后。
他说，新的捐款有助于在过去三周内推动竞选筹款接近2000万美元。特朗普于8月初在华盛顿被起诉，罪名是在美国国会大厦的支持者发生暴力骚乱之前，他试图推翻2020年大选的结果。
与此同时，特朗普的政治运作已经消耗了数千万美元的律师费用，因为他在四个不同的司法管辖区应对指控。最近的竞选财务文件显示，尽管特朗普在2023年上半年筹集了超过5300万美元——在此期间，他的前两项刑事起诉变成了一个战斗口号，使他的筹款飙升——但自2021年1月以来，他的政治委员会已经向100多名律师和律师事务所支付了至少5920万美元。
Trump campaign reports raising more than $7 million after Georgia booking
NEW YORK --For former President Donald Trump, a picture is worth ... more than $7 million.
Trump's campaign says he has raised $7.1 million since Thursday when he was booked at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020electionin the state and became the first former president in U.S. history to ever have a mug shot taken.
Spokesman Steven Cheung said that, on Friday alone, the campaign brought in $4.18 million — its highest-grossing day to date.
The record haul underscores how Trump's legal woes have been a fundraising boon for his campaign, even as his political operation has spent tens of millions on his defense. The mounting legal charges have also failed to dent Trump's standing in the Republican presidential primary, with the former president now routinely beating his rivals by 30 to 50 points in polls.
While Trump described his appearance Thursday as a “terrible experience” and said posing for the historic mug shot was “not a comfortable feeling,” his campaign immediately seized on its fundraising power.
Before he had even flown home to New Jersey, his campaign was using it in fundraising pitches to supporters. Trump amplified that message both on his Truth Social site and by returning to X, the site formerly known as Twitter, for the first time in two-and-a-half years to share the image and direct supporters to a fundraising page.
Within hours, the campaign had also released a new line of merchandise featuring the image that began with t-shirts and now includes beer Koozies, bumper stickers, a signed poster, bumper stickers and mug shot mugs.
Cheung said that contributions from those who had purchased merchandise or donated without prompting skyrocketed, especially after Trump's tweet.
The new contributions, he said, had helped push the campaign's fundraising haul over the last three weeks to close to $20 million. Trump in early August was indicted in Washington on felony charges related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol.
At the same time, Trump’s political operation has been burning through tens of millions of dollars on lawyers as he battles charges in four separate jurisdictions. Recent campaign finance filing showed that, while Trump raised over $53 million during the first half of 2023 — a period in which his first two criminal indictments were turned into a rallying cry that sent his fundraising soaring — his political committees have paid out at least $59.2 million to more than 100 lawyers and law firms since January 2021.
