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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.
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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.
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Just hours after he was ordered by a New York judge t o pay US$454 million (S$613 million) for fraudulently inflating the value of his properties,
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.
