Donald Trump’s legal fronts keep increasing. But so are the financial donations he receivesalong with enhanced voter turnout.

The prosecutions against him are proving not only to hurt the tycoon, but the indictments brought against him ultimately bring him financial benefits in a country where electoral victories are won with billions of dollars.

On Sunday, even before his fourth criminal indictment against him in Georgia, the Republican, a candidate for the presidency in the 2024 election, he had already emailed his supporters, calling on them to revolt… by putting their hand in their wallet.

“Biden’s Justice Department is trying to put me in PRISON for life,” he said, without proof, before urging his “patriots” to donate $24 to $1,000 to his campaign.

“The survival of our Republic hangs by a thread, America needs you,” he stressed.

Four million dollars in 24 hours

Since his first impeachment in the spring in New York, Trump has deluged his supporters with similar text messages and emails, with the same inflammatory rhetoric.

For the four cases in which he is charged? “Witch Hunts”. Democratic President Joe Biden? A “vile” head of a “pseudo-dictatorship”, trying to “exterminate his main political opponent”.

Result of this rhetoric? The Republican campaign team announced that it raised over $4 million in 24 hours after the first prosecutionin the case regarding the payment of money to buy the silence of former porn star Stormy Daniels.

He also boasted that he raised nearly $7 million immediately after the second indictment by federal prosecutors over classified documents he took with him when he left the White House.

Illustrating the influence that Donald Trump has with his base, thousands of Americans are responding to his appeals for donations.

Profits, legal costs, not

His … chest of inflammatory comments and mobilizing supporters are all the more valuable given that the candidate’s pre-indictment fundraising campaigns were not particularly successful. With each new investigation, the Republican now benefits from what political experts call “prosecution buffering” — “recovery associated with indictment.”

An excitement that can also be registered in the polls: since his first indictment, which attracted media attention, the former president also gained 9 points in the race for the Republican primaryaccording to RealClearPolitics.

“Every time I’m indicted, we rise,” Trump said at his campaign rallies. Going so far as to say immediately after the third indictment against him, that “he only needs one more indictment to win this election.”

However, if the former president and his entourage like to brag about the large sums collected thanks to these prosecutions, there is another reading. The volume of expenses associated with these categories is such that the candidate no longer has any choice but to draw money from his campaign funds.

Attorneys’ fees not so spent on television commercials, rallies or travel.

“Trump has already spent a significant percentage of his donations on legal fees,” political scientist Larry Sabato told AFP. Those costs, this University of Virginia professor predicts, “will continue to rise for months, even years.”