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By Shane Goldmacher and Rachel Shorey
Though he resigned and was excluded from major social media platforms, former President Donald Trump was the GOP’s top fundraiser in the early part of 2021 and ended June with a war chest of more than $100 million, according to new federal crusade records. weekend.
Trump has raised far more coins than any other Republican through WinRed, the party’s top online donation processing site, according to records, and more than each of the GOP’s own 3 main fundraising branches. also more than each of the party’s committees.
The next online fundraiser among Republican politicians, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who overlooked the GOP’s response to President Biden’s first speech to Congress in the spring. Scott raised $7. 8 million online.
Trump’s advisers falsely announced Saturday that “his affiliated political committees have raised nearly $82 million” in the first six months of 2021.
That figure included at least $23 million in transfers to his new political action committees that had been collected last year from other Trump-affiliated accounts, according to an investigation of federal records.
Jason Miller, a Trump spokesman, defended the accounting of the operation: “If we don’t claim all of this amount, you’ll wonder why we don’t know all the receipts for this period,” he said of the transfers.
Overall, the records earned showed that Trump had raised more than $56 million online from accounts in the first six months of the year.
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