Click now on the link to the Trump website and it takes you straight to a donations page where a somewhat deranged pitch about the 'deep state' and 'never-ending witch hunts' urges you to cough up the cash to save The Donald, starting at only $24 (£19.50) but rising to $3,300 and beyond. president ever to face a criminal prosecution was going to 'milk it for all it's worth'. That night he dined conspicuously with his wife Melania and her parents at his luxurious Mar-a-Lago redoubt in Palm Beach, Florida. He had come to think it would not happen, even as he publicly proclaimed it would. A Republican senator who spoke to him on Thursday evening said he was 'upset'. Ironically, Trump was said to have been 'caught off guard' by the development. On Thursday it became clear that Trump was indeed going to be charged - on 34 different counts related to the hush money - and arrangements were under way to get the former president to court in New York to be arraigned (probably next Tuesday). Once again he was at the centre of a feeding frenzy across every conceivable news outlet in the American media. Just the possibility propelled Trump back to where he loves to be - in the headlines. Some of his legal team advised him an indictment was unlikely. Nothing happened.īut Trump still used the prospect of arrest to rally support and raise funds for his 2024 presidential election bid, urging his fans to 'protest' and 'take our nation back', in echoes of his inflammatory rhetoric in the lead-up to the Januriots on Capitol Hill. For much of March he was claiming he was about to be arrested for allegedly paying hush money to a former adult-film star to keep her quiet in the last stages of his successful 2016 presidential election campaign.
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