The Trump machine: The former president’s dash for campaign cash

Although ahead in most of the polls, the Republican is at a huge financial disadvantage to Democrat Joe Biden. He now needs the party’s traditional donors.

The 2024 Trump campaign is unlike any other. Money comes in to send him to the White House. Some goes straight out to protect him from jail. PHOTO: AFP
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Just hours after he was ordered by a New York judge to pay US$454 million (S$613 million) for fraudulently inflating the value of his properties, Donald Trump held a fundraising event at his ritzy Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.

The biggest donors received signed Make America Great Again (Maga) caps. They also drank a 2020 vintage of Trump Meritage wine and sat on Opera chairs for a speech where Trump railed against the ruling, according to a person present.

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