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Trump campaign says its raised $141m in May, boosted by guilty verdict

Former US President Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records [Julia Nikhinson/AP]

Former United States President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised $141m in May, campaign officials have said, a haul apparently boosted by his conviction in his hush money trial.

Trump’s campaign said in a press release on Monday that $53m – more than a third of the total – was contributed in the 24 hours after a New York jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records, making him the first current or former president in US history to be convicted of a crime.

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