On "Forbes Newsroom," Democratic strategist Melissa DeRosa discussed Donald Trump's fundraising in the wake of the guilty verdict in his NYC hush money trial, and why she feels that this trial was the weakest for Democrats of Donald Trump's legal battles.
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00:00 I want to talk about the fundraising numbers that his team released because right after the verdict
00:05 the his um his donation page did crash for a little bit there and his campaign said they
00:12 received a historic 34.8 million dollars in small dollar donations less than 24 hours after the
00:18 verdict and 29.7 percent of them of those donors were new to the platform so as a democratic
00:24 strategist what are you thinking when you hear that? You know look I wrote a column on this case
00:31 a year ago in the Daily Beast and I talked about how this case in particular was so weak in terms
00:37 of how inherently political it looked right the southern district feds had passed on bringing this
00:44 case against Trump this was a case that was predicated on a porn star and a convicted felon
00:49 slash liar and Michael Cohen and so all along I personally have been dreading this moment because
00:56 I think that all that it seeks to do is further undermine people's view of the justice system.
01:01 They believe it's been politicized every poll tells us that. We're now in a situation where
01:05 the January 6th trial which I think would have been a real and compelling trial you know talking
01:11 about upholding democracy and you know taking your oath of office is going to get bumped beyond
01:17 November. Georgia has now been undermined by everything with the DA there and so I think that
01:23 the fact that this was the one and only case that it looks like is going to happen prior to election
01:28 day was a bad hand dealt for Democrats and I think that again you saw those numbers the numbers speak
01:35 for themselves it'll be interesting to see the first round of polling but I wouldn't be shocked
01:39 if the first round of polling shows that he gets a marginal bump in some of those swing states.