A few minutes after the conviction of former US President Donald Trump on Thursday in New York, the Republican’s campaign website began redirecting Internet users to a fundraising page. He describes himself as a “political prisoner”.
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“I have just been convicted in a rigged political trial akin to a witch hunt. I did nothing wrong,” proclaims the ex-president. “They raided my home, arrested me, took my mugshot, and now they have just convicted me,” his message added.
The fundraising page was no longer functional after just a few minutes, following a potentially massive influx of Donald Trump supporters onto the WinRed donation platform.
“The American people are very lucid in the face of the sham lawsuit brought by this crook Joe Biden. So many Americans felt touched and wanted to donate to President Trump’s campaign that the WinRed site went down,” Donald Trump’s campaign team said on the social network X (formerly Twitter). The site remained down for almost an hour.
“Deep State”
The verdict makes Donald Trump the first former US president to be criminally convicted, but does not prevent him from campaigning or potentially being elected on November 5. He should receive his sentence before then, on July 11.
Donald Trump regularly describes his legal setbacks as a battle against the forces of evil that are the “deep state”, a nebulous entity, which, according to followers of conspiracy theories, acts behind the scenes of the government, and the government of the American president Joe Biden.
The Republican likes to portray himself as a martyr to the cause, ready to sacrifice his freedom for the good of his supporters. In April, he made the link between his situation and that of Nelson Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist who remained imprisoned for 27 years. The billionaire had shortly before pushed the comparison to Jesus Christ.
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