While Trump’s campaign has relied mostly on small, grassroots donors, the fundraiser, which was intended to raise around $2 million, demonstrates how Trump has still been able to rely on wealthy supporters to fill his campaign coffers even in the midst of his legal troubles.
Trump had spent Tuesday in Miami court where he pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges that he hid classified military secrets at his Palm Beach club and stood in the way of government efforts to recover confidential documents.
Trump faces 37 felony counts: 31 counts of willful withholding of national security records and six counts of allegedly obstructing the federal effort to recover those documents.
After his appearance, Trump returned with his team of advisers and lawyers to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he addressed a crowd of supporters, some of whom flew halfway across the country at any moment to give Trump a lift. Trump.
Donors to the Trump fundraiser, who paid at least $1,000 to be there, were ushered inside the club after comments from the rest of the show. Earlier, Ric Grenell, Trump’s former acting director of National Intelligence, addressed the crowd inside. Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancee, was also at the event and spoke to donors.
