Former President Trump is using the potential indictment from the Manhattan district attorney’s office as a gift to his campaign — at least short term.
The former president and his team of allies are employing a full court press to make the most of the potential indictment from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for Trump’s alleged involvement in hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016, to keep her quiet ahead of that year’s election over her claims she had sexual encounters years earlier with Trump.
Trump and his allies, in social media postings and media comments, have been using the looming indictment to rally the MAGA base around the former president, and to juice grassroots fundraising.
Taylor Budowich, Trump’s former spokesman who now heads up MAGA Inc., the top super PAC supporting the former president’s 2024 White House campaign, told Fox News that an indictment would “break open the political flood gates” and deliver “support and campaign contributions, like we’ve never before seen.”
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For months, Trump has dismissed the idea that an indictment would hurt him even as he railed against the potential charges from several legal investigations into him.
Former President Trump speaks at a campaign event Monday, March 13, 2023 in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Ron Johnson)
“I wouldn’t even think about leaving. Probably it will enhance my numbers,” Trump declared earlier this month ahead of his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) when asked by reporters of a possible indictment.
Public opinion polling appears to back up his claim, suggesting that the former president received a boost among Republican voters last year after the FBI’s search for classified documents at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
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GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, a top Trump ally in the House of Representatives, predicted to Punchbowl this week that “you’re going to see President Trump continue to solidify his position in the Republican nomination.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. ((AP Photo/Alex Brandon))
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